[Leica] Falling Apart & smoking. :-(

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Thanks, Ted.  I totally agree and on a Tuesday everything looks much better
than on a Monday!  I never had a desire to smoke because my parents were
both chain smokers and I spent many hours locked in a car with all of that
smoke!  On the other hand, my sister who grew up in the same house and car
is a life-long smoker who is battling constantly to quit.  I cannot imagine
wanting to put those leaves in my mouth and set them on fire to breathe the
smoke.

George Carlin's skit on smoking should be enough to make most people want
to quit.

Now back to my Lagavulin ;-)

Tina

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:25 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Tina Manley OFFERED:
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Falling Apart
>
>
>  That's me alright!  But I didn't quit smoking because I never started.  At
>> least that's one thing I don't have to worry about.
>>
>> Tuesday is a better day ;-) <<<<<
>>
>
> Hi Tina,
> Well I was going to comment about the aches and pains of supposedly
> growing, I was going to say  "OLD!" But that's a word for "OLD PEOPLE!"
> Usually those who have no young thoughts, nor young of heart! Hell many of
> them were old at age 14 and never got over it! :-(
>
> However we, as you and I and yes many of the crew, are young of heart and
> thought. Still get the aches and pains, WHY? Well in many cases derived
> from our youthful travelling through time capturing magical moments of the
> folks of the world. Or some other youthful, but crazy things we did because
> we were young enjoying every moment... sometimes in a bit of a, shall we
> say? Reckless dare devil fashion led not by brain power. But "Why not lets
> do it! :-)  What the hell?" :-) A wonderful attitude! Although it can....
> get you killed! :-)
>
> And there's nothing these days worse than a Monday when you wake up and
> you think it's Saturday and the weekend to do nothing like the old days of
> supposedly "working!" :-) As for photographers "working?" That word isn't
> in our vocabulary! Work is moving concrete blocks, what we did and do,
> although in a somewhat slow motion kind of way these days was/is "making
> happy snaps" people were only to pleased to pay for our youthful efforts!!"
> :-)
>
> But when I'm in a state of aches, pains, Tylenol and pain killers of sorts
> I don't think bad and say... "Damn you were stupid and not careful and you
> shouldn't have done:
>
> Driven Stock cars and had those crashes!
> Driven Sprint cars and had those crashes!
> Had those two icy road crashes and roll over's in the winter!
> The helicopter ride dropping like a fast falling brick to the arctic ice
> cabin filled with smoke!
> Thrown out of the speed boat as the last image of the assignment finished.
> Being hit by three football defensemen on the sideline at the same time
> with the ball carrier!
> The two ski equipped airplane crash landings on the arctic ice in two days.
> Hit by a flying wheel off a stock car while shooting from the infield.
> The not perfect landing on my first and only solo parachute jump.
>
> And there's probably a couple more things in there all in the name of
> being a photojournalist! :-)
>
> But you know what? I wouldn't change any of it for one second! Other than
> trying to be home when my children had birthdays or special school events
> or "other them growing-up when I should have been there."
>
> And Tina apart from us both being photographers we have one other thing in
> common. I never smoked! My tiny mother gave me an option I never
> challenged.... "If you smoke like your father I will kill you!" Seemed a
> reasonable reason not to smoke. :-) So I never did. :-)
>
> Some days it... "the body" some place or other hurts and aches like the
> devil. Then I think about my incredible life and say to myself about the
> aches and pains! "GET OVER IT!" They're just the trophies of a great life!
> :-)
>
> cheers,
> Dr. ted
>
>
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