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Subject: [Leica] Just for the record
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:50:59 -0500
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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 
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