Life Like an Onion

The name of this worth-while, well made Movie is "Hero"

The star is Dustin Hoffman and the cast is good enough. Its called a comedy, romance, and drama. I call it a drama told in good humor with some love most of us can recognize. It seems that it suggests that there are reasons that we are the way we are and that there is good in each of us. Could it be that we each may need to need to be a bit heroic to live this life. There is more than one way to peel an onion.

                                                                                                Richard

You keep Better Balance, Build Some Strength, and Avoid Falls.

                    When the physical exercises which you have done much of your life seem to be getting too difficult or just harder than ever, avoid cutting back on your physical activity. Do think about changing it. Consider making it more appropriate for the you of today.

                    Keep careful and keep safe, and keep active.

                    Keeping physically active is not an cure for aging, but it is much more helpful than spending more time sitting on your butt. Physical activity can change your life for the better. However, it can be not so much what you do and more about the way you do it.

                    I was slow to make appropriate changes and have done what is proving to be permanent damage to many body parts such as to my right shoulder and both knees much of  damage was do to falls. I am 84 now and have serious balance problems. I start some balance exercise  at as early as 70 years of age, but when I found that they became too difficult for me I gave up for a time and then started some of the same ones again and, of course, they were still too hard for me, so I did them less often with less positive feeling.

                    I am often a slow learner, but I can also be persistent. Relearning is useful. I believe make our activities appropriate, safe, and life enhancing. This vide0 displays some moves that we can adopt or adapt and adopt. It may move one's imagination enough to move us to be successfully and appropriately active in carrying out some effective new moves.

                    It shows simple new ways to do something like leg lifts in a safe way and with good posture which increases strength and preserve balance and, yes, improve balance. The guys in the video, health pros, gives us a variety of leg lifts, which keep us moving without with active interes. Good old YouTube!

                    Try a few of the moves. Come back to the video for an inspirational review of what you can do.

                    

Physical Activity For Energy and Life

 Practice staying active at every age and experience level is my advice and that of many thoughtfull and experiece others. As is almost every other post and essay on this blog and associated, this post is meant to be educative. I want my blogs to help you live, a longer and more meaningful life. Act now and for long to maintain your mobility and engery.

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Search This Post

 RCS Posts: Blog search

           For readers who are not familiar with the many search options available to them here, I will begin to review some of them.

            It seems that blogs are so out of fashion that few remember how they may be fashioned. For example this blog is of three columns. I have used the central column as the place up to 400 essays or posts.

                An important function of the columns to the left and right of the central column is to offer you apps to help you find the essays which interest you. They are largely made up of search apps. However, they also contain other helpful apps.

             Let me begin with the column to your left on the main view of the page. On all of my blogs the this left hand column begins with the app which allows you to select the language in which to choose to read the post you select.

                Other apps you will find in this column may have a different order on each of the associated blogs. For example the next app might be "Associated Blog Sites to visit." To be transported to the one which interests you and be transported to it. The next app may be "Popular Posts." There you can find the names of up to four posts others have been finding interesting. Each name will be follow by a few words about it. click on that name and that post will appear. Next you may come to a title that reads "Pages." Click on one of the listings there and be taken to another page where you can find posts much like this one or different.

                The last listing in this column will usually be "Blog Archive." This can be a very useful app for you. Use it to become familiar with the essays and other posts available on this blog site. You will see a list of years and months. Click on one and you will taken to all of the posts published in that period. All are interesting and usually contain some hard to find YouTube videos which YouTube allows me to show.

                The right hand column usually begins with a search app, perhaps with the  title "Search This Site." There is a little window in which you may enter a word or phrase and then click on the word "Search." Try it and see what happens.

                I will leave this little post here for a few weeks and then move it to "Pages." You are now on the home page.

                This is a good place from which to comment.

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Dumbded Down

 RCS Posts: Education: You may be helpless, we are not.          

     

            My old aunt spoke to me long ago of "the numbing of America" and now I have struggle against it a bit. We each are responsible our teaching our children as best we can. We can do better.We do not have to believe all we hear. These topics ought to be of some importance and use to us.

 

            The US is not the only place dumbing has been practiced. We need not be helpless. Let's educate ourselves and our children much, much better.

 

            Our duming may not be completely our own fault. There is some evidence of coordinated effort to dumb us. We need not worry much about that we are capable of educating ourselves. We are many and there is help available. Self education and self governance takes co-operation. Organization is only a step above co-operation.

            Together we can become less vulnerable to fear and hysteria. neither of these help our  organization, co-operation, education, responsibilities, rights, or freedom.

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Faith, Governance, The Virus, and Lessons Learned

RCS Posts governance including: Richard Wolf, trust, government

                The stirring to publish this post seems to start as follows: Yesterday evening I watched a bit of a YouTube video by Richard Wolff. I suspect that I did not even watch it to its end. Last night I had dreams about our wars and dreams about our political beginnings. Vietnam seems to have dominated those about our wars and that dreams of our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution.

            This morning I awoke slowly, feeling weak, fatigued, and exhausted as has been usual in recent weeks. However, I soon remembered something of my dreams and tried to remember more of them with little success. Then I began to recall a bit of the Wolff video to which I had not paid close attention.

                It seems from my present perspective that the video was about Lessons Learned (or learnable) from our Covi experience. I have not tried to revisit that video as I believe I would have in other days; so, some of what I write now may be more Sheehan than Wolff.

                As I remember, Mr. Wolff chose the following countries useful for comparing the quality of their dealings with The Virus. The countries he chose as good examples of dealing effectively with Covi: China and New Zealand, Taiwan and South Korea, Cuba and Vietnam. The two countries he chose for dealing poorly with that virus were the United Kingdom and the United States. Wolf, it seemed, felt that he saw evidence that the people of the first six countries also had more faith in their government than the last two I mentioned.

                I believe that such comparing of the governance of a people with their ability to deal with This Virus, could aid us in learning an important lesson or two.

                Wolf himself seemed to believe that he had evidence that the people of the first six countries demonstrated a belief that their government had the power and ability to deal well with the Virus and so cooperated in that dealing. Wolff also seemed to have thought that the people of The U.K. and The U.S. did not have faith that, at this time, their government was ready, willing, and able to deal with This Virus successfully. 

            Thanks for reading.

 

                 Do you think that our dealing with The Virus has to do with our faith in our government/governance? What do you think we might learn from our experience with the Virus? What is the state of our faith in our government? What would you like the nature of our governance to be? What is our responsibility for the nature of our government? What important governance might we be able to learn? What would be a good simple measure of the quality of our dealing with this Virus? Would the % of deaths or the number of deaths per hundred be a useful measure? What could we learn, that is useful, by looking at more successful dealing with the Virus as compared with the real nature of governance of, say, 100 countries? How might the U.N. be useful in this effort? Why? How might my going back to bed and forgetting about all this be helpful?

                My questions above may be taken as rhetorical, but there is a window below called "comments" and sometimes "no comments!" I that window you may put questions of your own, or answer mine, or make comments, or one comment.

                Thanks for reading.

 

 

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