Sports Medicine for the Ninth Decade

A young man this morning at the Country Store Café is working in Sports Medicine for Athletes. We had a conversation.

 In this my 89^th year I do not run or hop about on pain of grievous injury. We talked about my options. The bottom line came down to walking.  Sounds rather simple. Yet my observation is that in this age category very few folks walk except to get to the TV and to the bathroom. What is the moral of the story? 

 

My guess is that American culture is training people to watch the TV in order to get “eyeballs” and ratings. It does make economic sense for the corporate machinery and stock holders. 

However, my selfish interest is in personal health. My time is shorter that it once was so why not squeeze every bit of enjoyment out of the process. The experts say that good memory maintenance for persons of age depends on learning new things and on exercise of the one body that we have. Rather basic. However personal initiative is crucial. 

 

I am putting in place my own Walking Fitness Program.  This personal entity is chaired and financed by me. I am also the Board of Directors. Stock holders include my family.

Two friends reminded me earlier in the day that while one is walking, the roof lines of homes in our Independent Living community are curiously unbalanced. 

Now, such an irrelevant insight takes persistent observation. There is also time to observe people, dogs, birds, airplanes and clouds. One could do worse.  

Delton on May 6, 2017

Dust Returning to Dust

Dust Returning to Dust 

That process is you and me. 

At birth I was involved in many things and everyone in the vicinity was distracted. This little living creature seemed so fresh and new yet this is dust assembled as a baby.

 Some day at a grave side the words “Dust to Dust and Ashes to Ashes……” will be said by other creatures of dust. The dignity and grandness of it all is usually overcome by spasms of necessary grief. 

What a mystery is this drama. Why all the bother?   Here is one answer.

It is all a matter of prayer being defined as dust grasping for meaning. 

This notion upends many rigid religious rituals. I content that this “algorithm” gives prayer a new and vital energy. This drama takes religion on to the next evolutionary phase in the earth creation of meaning.

I contend that religious institutions are not ready for their demise in the face of the onrushing future. Why, may I ask, are these religions not giving priority to “religion for robots”? There is still time to get this act together. The train is just leaving the station and is beginning to pick up speed.

No need to verbalize “let us pray”.  Our body minds have been at this praying all along but we got busy and tended to not notice.

These words make me uncomfortable. Yet, here they are and something tells me that it is okay to say them.

Delton