Graig, Doug, and the rest of the Paddlewise Family, All of us have aged and are not up to what we were in years pasted....... I know myself, and so stated by Doug.... "I'm back at the gym and eating healthier than ever" aside from going to the "Y" 2 or 3 times a week, kayaking, biking.... I am in Senior softball league of men over 60.... yesterday, prior to the games we had sort of a birthday party..... in our league we have 9 guys over 80 still out playing twice a week ..... I only hope that in the years to come that I too can still be as active as some of these "older" gentlemen..... Thanks and RIP Steve In a message dated 2/2/2012 11:10:07 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, douglloyd_at_shaw.ca writes: I'd been active on his site and was enjoying Eric's most excellent blog; I kinda wondered how dangerous it was to be an active slop dog for him, but heck, no sense living on the couch. Words fail to express the sense of loss, one that will surely be repeated as more of us older paddlers just tucker out or fail. I'm back at the gym and eating healthier than ever in my life, hopefully long enough to stay as vibrant as Eric was up until that final breath... Doug Thanks, Debra, for sending me this. I did not want to post or say anything until I could get more confirmation. Very sad to see. Like Eric, many of us are living on time borrowed from doctors. I have 3 stints, two artificial lenses in my eyes, and a new knee. Fifty years ago we would have died much sooner and the extra years give us time to be with our families and friends. Having read some of Eric's thoughts on his blog about this I know he was aware of it and was grateful for it... but accepted the other side of the coin; we are all a bit more frail now than we were. I'm glad that we had such an articulate spokesman for paddling as Eric was. RIP. Craig ---------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Feb 03 2012 - 02:50:46 PST
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