Things
Fall Apart: Fear Of Getting Older - Granny Jane Reflects
11 December 2009By
Jane Stillwater
Everyone in America today seems to be totally worried
about terrorism and the economy. Sure, I also worry a
lot that the Bush-Obama administration's excessive
love of bankers and weapons manufacturers has screwed
up my country -- but, frankly, I've got far more
important things to worry about right now, things that
are far more closer to home. I'm more worried about
getting older and watching my body fall apart than I
am about terrorists and the economy.
Recently I started taking a Jin Shin Jyutsu class,
wherein the instructor keeps telling me that if I only
do this or do that, my body and mind will start
functioning better. But, hey, just look what I have to
work with! My body parts are clearly wearing out.
Where was Jin shin Jyutsu 40 years ago -- when I had a
much higher quality product to work with.
Here's a video of the three main JSJ self-help body
holds. If you are young, you might want to try them.
They will probably work better for you than they do
for me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNzcWKKV52s
There is one advantage to being old, however. I no
longer have to worry about global warming, economic
disaster, irradiation by depleted uranium and the
oceans rising over my doorstep -- because within the
next 20 years I'll be dead. Ha! All you young strong
healthy types who can still do cartwheels and run
marathons will be stuck with all this deadly Bush-Obama
mess -- but I won't be. Ha!
But, like I said, the disadvantage of being older is
that all my stuff is now all falling apart. And even
if Americans move quickly, stop using cars, become
socialists, kick all the bankers out of the Pentagon
and save the world, all you young guys perhaps may get
saved -- but I'm still gonna be old.
PS: One thing I would really like to do that would
most likely improve my life span -- or at least my
memory -- is to win the lottery and move someplace
where they don't put fluoride in the water.
PPS: I'm leaving for Miami on Friday, to have lunch at
the Versailles restaurant on Calle Ocho in Little
Havana and keep my eyes peeled for Fidel Castro while
I eat fried plantains. Hey, you never can tell. (And
even Fidel Castro is actually getting OLD.)
Then I'm going to leave the next day for Chile, to be
down there in time for the Chilean presidential
elections. This election is a big deal! I myself am
rooting for Marco Enriquez-Ominami, an independent
running on a center-left platform. He's not only
popular in Chile but he's also a good guy who
(hopefully) won't sell out his constituency to the
highest bidder the moment he gets elected on a
platform of "change".
PPPS: Here's a video of Mena's friend Fami's birthday
party. Fami just turned two. This video is totally
non-political -- except that it's virtually living
proof that we CAN "all just get along".
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