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I like the flowers, and the bees, the birds, and the trees. I like wisps of steam floating upward from wiry ferns and the fireflies dancing at night. I like everything that belongs to all of us.
Source: Bhuwan Thapaliya
Posted: 2025 Dec 17
Tag Archives: Exercise
Fit at 70 – Update #1
Cute cat video! No, but the next best thing: a video update on my Fit-at-70 program. Continue reading
Splish, Splash
Lessons learned while kayaking. Continue reading
Posted in Laughing Frequently, Sports and Exercise
Tagged Attitudes, Exercise, Trains & Boats & Planes
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It’s a Crime
On the Sunday of the Terry Fox Run, thinking about how little I do with two nominally good legs. Continue reading
Physiotherapy and Buttercups
Applies the famous Gibson Disappointment Scale© in musing about the undeniable fault with physiotherapy: It doesn’t work. Continue reading
A Trial Separation
It’s the equivalent of at least three full flights up to the airport lounge, but I head to the stairs. As I round the first landing, it hits me. I’m all alone on this climb. I mean, I knew it … Continue reading
Hike!
Bravely tackling a challenging hike under harsh conditions, I am dismayed to encounter folks much older than I, seemingly finding it easy. And it only gets worse from there. Panting just a bit, I clamber out of the final … Continue reading
You Talkin’ to Me?
A tai chi lesson becomes a lesson about learning styles – both in physical activities and in life. Drop your shoulders. I look around. You talkin’ to me? I don’t use my outside voice, but the thought likely shows … Continue reading
What You Don’t Know
What were you following? The words are delivered just a little north of dispassionately, just a tad too intensely to indicate mere enquiry. No, something more is afoot, in more than one sense, as we make our careful way back … Continue reading
Six for Artistic Impression
Life lessons learned by watching the Olympics. Clicker box in one hand, snack bowl in the other, I lurch stiffly to my feet. This hands-free, grunt-free levitation earns me personal-best marks for both technical and artistic components. Before setting … Continue reading