Oh my aching body!

I used to be extremely flexible. Really.

I could close a freezer door with my foot. Honestly.

I used to do yoga every single day, twice a day.

Oh, how I wish I had kept that up!

I decide to do some yoga today. Good Lord, what a come-down!

I can't even do a shoulder stand! I can't get my torso off the floor.

This is bad.

I think the loss of flexibility is the beginning of feeling old. I am okay with being old, I just don't want to feel old.

So from now on, I will rolling around on the floor at least once a day.

I will be flexible again or die in the attempt!

I am a boomer, I do not get old!

Excelsior!

The Great Mother

I was watching something called HealthQuest on tv today. There was a short segment from an oceanographer on how important the earth was to us.

I was struck with a sudden insight, that our relationship to the earth is the same as our relationships with our aging parents.

A few years ago my life stopped dead while I took care of my mother in her last illness. The only thing I had time for was work and her.

I was glad to do it. My mother had done her job and now I would do mine.

It seem to me that we have reached the same stage in our relationship with the planet.

For centuries, the earth has given us everything. Everything we wear, we eat, we sleep on it, we adorn ourselves with. We have used her as children use their mothers, as the source of all good things.

We have fished her oceans, plowed her fields, dug up her mines. We have sated ourselves on her plenty and used her to her capacity.

And now she must rest. She is ill and old and must be cared for with kindness and understanding.

It is time we were the adults and no longer the children.

We must grow up and curb our desires.

We must see to her instead of her always seeing to us.

The Earth is our Mother and she needs us and she needs us now.