>I'm just a young pup at age 40. ...I have a friend who used to tell his (small) kids that even though they were getting older every year, *he* was getting younger. They believed him for a time. ....I'll be 58 in early 2000, and since I've been paddling these past 4 or so years, I *have* been getting younger. Just ask my (grown) kids, or my co-workers. This is something the psychologists should be told: One's inner child can be found in his/her cockpit! Nya nya... Bobby Others have commented on how they've noticed >that people who continue to be active as they age live longer and have a >greater quality of life. On the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's "The >Nature of Things" earlier this week they had a program on aging. One of the >most heartening things they showed was a Scandinavian experiment in which >folks in their eighties, who had not been particularly active before, >started doing a moderately vigourous routine of stretches and workout. There >appeared to be a measureable increase in their mobility, a reduction in >their chances of injury in everyday life, and an increase in their perceived >quality of life. It's never too late to start! > > >>They should be doing whitewater at this point in >>their lives, and wild monkey sex. e > >Uh, I do sea-kayaking, moderate (class II) whitewater, and that other thing. >I hadn't realised we were supposed to choose... > >Philip Torrens >N49°16' W123°06' > >*************************************************************************** >PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not >to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission >Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net >Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net >Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ >*************************************************************************** > *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Oct 15 1999 - 12:53:10 PDT
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