Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jun 10, 2012, at 4:56 PM, Herbert Kanner wrote: > I turned ninety yesterday, 9 June. Happy birthday Herbert! > 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 :-) "they" say it's never too late to exercise, build and stretch muscles. Use 'em or lose 'em seems the reality. Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist