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  • Exercise and Age

    I’ve had the same conversation with several friends of late – about age and exercise. It seems we all have the same ideas.

    Not sure why each of us is thinking of this now as we are slightly different ages [but over 60], live in different parts of the country and some do not know each other – and I did not start all the conversations. It must be zeitgeist or “something in the air.”

    Each of us had been thinking that as we are aging, we feel the need to not do such strenuous activities as we had been doing, or doing them fewer days per week, or taking time off from exercising and just not doing anything strenuous. It’s not that we can’t do the strenuous activities – we can. We also know they are probably very good for our health. But most of us still work and find that after the strenuous workouts, we can’t just go to work but instead need a recovery period that is longer than we used to need.

    Most of us said that this made us sad and a bit angry – we still like to think we can keep on going like we did in our 20’s or 30’s – but our bodies say NO! There is no way to turn back the clock – we are aging…..but we are trying to figure this out as we go.

    When I was in graduate school, or soon after, a psychologist I knew said that psychology would not get into really studying aging until we psychologists ourselves got older – and that is what seems to have happened.

    I am wondering if the interplay of aging and exercise is also something that we aging used-to-be-more-strenuous-athletic types are/will be the models for?

    In chatting with my son about this – he suggested a few things – really vary what I am doing for exercise and starting a “club” for those of us who are older – can’t keep up with the “kids” but are able to do lots more than the programs for “older” people.

    Any thoughts?

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  • They get "points" for creativity : – )

    This came today…and I am still laughing….but I hope no one is taken in by this scam.

    For one, if the FBI were really interested in me and what I am doing vis-a-vis some banking – don’t you think they would send someone to my door or send me a letter? With all the listening in to phone calls and monitorin interent useage – I think the FBI already has access to ALL our info….

    Please beware…some people might be concerned getting an email from the FBI or the IRS – but these are agencies that do not email you – so be careful….Laugh but then delete!

    Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 17:10:39 +0200
    From: “FEDERAL BUREAU INVESTIGATION”
    Subject: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI Honolulu)
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    ROOM 4-230, KALANIANAOLE FOB
    300 ALA MOANA BOULEVARD HONOLULU, HAWAII 96850-0053
    EMAIL federalbureauinvestigation93@yahoo.com
    http://www.fbi.gov

    Attn: Honorable Beneficiary.

    We the Federal Bureau Of Investigation (FBI Honolulu) United States Of America have discovered through our intelligent monitoring network that you have a transaction going on as either inheritance payment,Lottery or contract payment of $1.5 Millions of United States Dollars which have been approved but have not been settled.

    This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract / inheritance file ater close monitoring and found out why you have not received your payment,both on your part and on the part of your debtors.

    Secondly we have been informed that you are still dealing with the non officials in the bank who are attempting to secure the release of your fund to you. We wish to advise you that this is illegal and you should stop further communication with them forthwith because such an illegal act like this can lead to cancellation of your fund.

    We have been having so many complains from people who have been scammed arround the world hence,after concluding in a meeting with members of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), we came to a conclusion that every payment will be made through the Oceanic Bank in the Republic Of Benin . We also concluded on the use of ELECTRONIC ATM PAYMENT SYSTEM as the only direct means to pay all beneficiaries.

    By this method,your funds will be loaded in two batches into an ATM card, and sent to you, from this card you can withdraw a maximum of us$15,000 per day from any ATM machine worldwide,BUT from the financial houses there is no limit.

    So if you would like to receive your funds in this way please send your following information to the paying bank.

    1. Full name……………………..
    2. Full address ……………………..(P.O box not acceptable)
    3. Phone and fax #……………………………..
    4.Your balance payment……………………….
    4. Your age, sex and current occupation………………

    Below are the contact details of the PAYING BANK(Oceanic Bank) in the Republic Of Benin to whom you will send your information for the processing of the ATM card as soon as possible:

    CONTACT PERSON REV DR MATHEW OBI
    HEAD OF OPERATIONS,ATM CARD PAYMENT SYSTEM
    DEBT SETTLEMENT COMMISSION,WEST AFRICAN OCEANIC BANK
    370 CHURCH STREET,PRETORIA,
    E144QJ REPUBLIC OF BENIN
    EMAIL: atm_payment_department101@yahoo.fr,
    DIRECT TELEPHONE NUMBER: +22993565633 .

    The DEBT SETTLEMENT COMMISSION has been mandated to issue out your payments for this fiscal year 2008. Also for your information, you have to stop any further communication with any other person(s) or office(s) who claim that to be established agents using it to defraud innocent people worldwide.This is to avoid any hitches in receiving your payment.

    THANKS FOR LISTENING TO OUR ADVISE

    Faithfully Yours,
    MR .ROBERT S. MUELLER, III
    FOR COROPORATE AFFAIRS
    FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI Honolulu))
    UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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  • Memorial Day Weekend Newbies


    Our weekend brought out these new babies…..

    Momma mallard watches while the babies eat…. good camouflage among the wet grasses….

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  • Ouch

    Today I got an FYI from my HMO about my physical on May 1….[This does not include the blood tests that were done last week as I assume Medicare covers those in full.]

    In large print it says not a bill – I was not concerned that it was – but I still had an OUCH moment when I saw the visit was assessed at $213.00. No wonder so many people who do not have health coverage do not see physicians. And when uninsured people do get seriously ill, they get taken to the emergency rooms. and that costs lots more and for the uninsured, we all wind up paying for that anyway.

    So here’s to Universal Coverage…Medicare for all would work….It’s actually an efficient program in spite of what the Republicans would have us believe.

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  • Mother’s Day – the original

    My annual tribute to the original Mother’s Day

    How did we get away from the original intent of Howe’s mother’s day proclamation to a now corporate event of sell sell sell and buy buy buy? Oh and do not forget to make those intercepted phone calls….

    I cry for those mommy’s who have lost their children in the mad shrub’s so-called war….

    Let’s take back mother’s day when we take back our country from these #$%#&$*&(^

    Mother’s Day Proclamation – 1870
    by Julia Ward Howe

    Arise then…women of this day!
    Arise, all women who have hearts!
    Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
    Say firmly:
    “We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
    Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
    For caresses and applause.
    Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
    All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
    We, the women of one country,
    Will be too tender of those of another country
    To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.”

    From the voice of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with
    Our own. It says: “Disarm! Disarm!
    The sword of murder is not the balance of justice.”
    Blood does not wipe our dishonor,
    Nor violence indicate possession.
    As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
    At the summons of war,
    Let women now leave all that may be left of home
    For a great and earnest day of counsel.
    Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
    Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
    Whereby the great human family can live in peace…
    Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
    But of God –
    In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
    That a general congress of women without limit of nationality,
    May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient
    And the earliest period consistent with its objects,
    To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
    The amicable settlement of international questions,
    The great and general interests of peace.

    Peace,
    Lynn

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