[Leica] Just for the record

[rgacpa at gmail.com (Robert Adler)]

Congratulations Herb!
Just keep walking around pressing that shutter button. It'll do you good in
many ways.
Many happy returns of this day to you,
Bob

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> 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
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> Herbert Kanner
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>
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Bob Adler
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