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Still Reaching Out For Ideas: Expansion's Enigmas Watching a television documentary on Jimmy Carter?s presidency("Jimmy Carter: Part 2,"ABC TV, 5:00-6:00 p.m., 23/7/06) and reading Abigail Trafford?s article at an internet site from the Washington Post("Presidents Set a Fast Pace," February 9th 1999), I learned of Carter?s jogging and walking enthusiasms. This information caused me to reflect on the many presidents, prime ministers and leaders in various fields who enjoy varying regimens of exercise to keep fit and healthy, to overcome illness and different medical and physical problems. I could list here, by category: the walkers, the joggers, the weight-lifters and body-builders, tai-chi and the martial arts, the sports players, the games players, the swimmers, the exercise-treatment-fitness program enthusiasts, the afternoon-sleepers, the special dieters, the supplements and vitamins hopefuls, the home exercise-equipment people, aerobics, bike-riding, the yoga and meditation folk-and there are others. I could also list my own exercise activities and health programs over the years and they would include all of the above at different times going right back to the years of early childhood. -Ron Price, Pioneering Over Four Epochs, July 24th 2006. I was never a glutton for physical punishment, exercise and activity, although I think the daily walk may prove to possess longevity along with the daily sleep in the afternoon or the evening----and, oh yes, prayer and meditation--- The rest never made the category: signature of my life, but suffered the slings & arrows of outrageous fortune, here today, gone tomorrow, like that erotic act, as fleeting as wind, without that longevity, alas and alack, slipping into a quiet niche with little role to play in my health on any level. Those walks & sleeps, though, that prayer & meditation, they stood at the centre of my days as a voice of moderation countering the excesses, the illnesses, the work, fatigue, anxiety, the chronic problems and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to before the sleep of death when I will have shuffled off this mortal coil, bearing the whips & scorns of time no more.1 1 Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1, lines 63-70 Ron Price July 24th 2006 (updated for: The Evolution Forum 14/6/'08) __________________ married for 42 years, a teacher for 35 and a Baha'i for 50 |
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