A ride a day...

[Duck on Wheels]

You guys.

You've got all my respect for the struggle your body gives you. Glad you're both (all) biking.

L.

This brings to mind a J. Golden Kimball story. One of my mom's old professors at Sonoma State College did a lecture on J. Golden Kimball stories in a Folklore course, and an old family friend of ours taped that lecture and made an lp of it. It's a kick. Now I'm not a mormon, or a believer in any other kind of organized religion, but there is one J. Golden Kimball story I find rather inspiring:

Now, imagine a taaaaaall skinny (!) and (for his time) old man (for a visual aid see http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/w/o/wol3/kimbajg1.htm.) Imagine also a high squeeky voice to match the body. J. Golden was a much loved elder of the LDS church, in spite of drinking coffee, tea, and sometimes stronger drinks and having a hang towards swearing. So there are lots of stories about the man. In one, somebody asks him how he got to be so old and whether he had any lessons in healthy living other folks could learn from. His response (purportedly):

"The secret of a loooong liiiife ... is to get yourself an incurable disease ... and take care of it."

[betagirl]

Aww, thanks Lise. Sometimes it sounds worse than it is. Grant it, there are days it's no picnic. But we all have our own struggles that we deal with every day.

BWI - great quote. I hadn't heard that one before.

My signature line is from a silly (but freakin' awesome) movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I was watching it for the 937th time when I had had surgery in 2003 and was laid up on the sofa. When I heard Ferris say to Cameron outside Chez Luis "Only the meek get pinched, the bold survive" that became my mantra for life. So far it's held up pretty well