[Leica] Just for the record

[j2m46 at hotmail.fr (Jean-Michel Mertz)]

Congratulations, Herb, and my best wishes for this coming year. Obviously, 
taking pictures provides you with excellent exercising!Jean-Michel
 > Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 14:56:13 -0700
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> From: kanner at acm.org
> Subject: [Leica] Just for the record
> 
> I turned ninety yesterday, 9 June. Unfortunately I never followed 
> Uncle Ted's advice about regular exercise. I suppose I must have been 
> influenced by Robert Maynard Hutchins, the president of the 
> University of Chicago when I was an undergraduate. His famous quote 
> was: Whenever I feel the urge to exercise, I lay down until it goes 
> away." So my musculature has gone to hell in the last year or so.
> 
> For many years, the nearest I came to exercise was piloting light 
> aircraft. I suppose climbing into the cockpit could be called 
> exercise.
> 
> Then I discovered horses and for thirty years rode every week at a 
> minimum. The last few years of riding, I decided to take dressage 
> lessons, not to compete, just to learn more about communicating with 
> the horse. I was lucky; I found an instructor who, while I was 
> studying with her, qualified as an Olympics judge.
> 
> The mistake I made was to stop. I had been leasing the use of this 
> horse from when she was six years old, and in time she became too old 
> and lame prone to be used by me. So, I set intended to rent another 
> animal just as the rainy season started and the horse ranch became a 
> mud hole. My wife persuaded me that it would be sensible to wait 
> until spring, and I just never got around to resuming riding.
> 
> Moral: there are times when you shouldn't listen to your wife :-)
> 
> Herb
> -- 
> Herbert Kanner
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> 
> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
> 
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