Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 6/10/2012 4:56 PM, Herbert Kanner wrote: > I turned ninety yesterday, 9 June. Unfortunately I never followed > Uncle Ted's advice about regular exercise. I suppose I must have been > influenced by Robert Maynard Hutchins, the president of the University > of Chicago when I was an undergraduate. His famous quote was: Whenever > I feel the urge to exercise, I lay down until it goes away." So my > musculature has gone to hell in the last year or so. > > For many years, the nearest I came to exercise was piloting light > aircraft. I suppose climbing into the cockpit could be called exercise. > > Then I discovered horses and for thirty years rode every week at a > minimum. The last few years of riding, I decided to take dressage > lessons, not to compete, just to learn more about communicating with > the horse. I was lucky; I found an instructor who, while I was > studying with her, qualified as an Olympics judge. > > The mistake I made was to stop. I had been leasing the use of this > horse from when she was six years old, and in time she became too old > and lame prone to be used by me. So, I set intended to rent another > animal just as the rainy season started and the horse ranch became a > mud hole. My wife persuaded me that it would be sensible to wait until > spring, and I just never got around to resuming riding. > > Moral: there are times when you shouldn't listen to your wife :-) > > Herb Herb, Congratulations. There is some luck in achieving age 90. I just turned 71 and I have many much older clients who ate and drank what their parents did and are doing fine. Pork chops pulled from the fat in a cellar storage etc. I will go with luck and genes. Almost all of my HS friends are deceased, from VN or car wrecks. One of my best friends dropped dead at age 45 from a heart attack on the tennis court. I didn't get my MD along the way, but I would say...don't change anything. Except maybe for some Lagavulin. I am glad you are well. I have many clients at that age who have not fared as well. Ken