My calendar for this past week. This has been the first week in two months since I started being chopped that I have done all my workouts. X100 is the extended workout going to 100 push-ups and crunches in the first set, and 50 each in the next two sets. W is my workout with two ten pound weights and two minutes of planks. X is my standard workout doing my age, 84, of push-ups and crunches in the first set and 40 each in the next two. B is a bike ride. R my resistance bands workout. Dr. McKinley is a dentist who added to my chopping by removing a bridge and an abscessed tooth. This was much less painful than I expected. I was told to take Tylenol if needed, but I took the universal panacea, Laphroaig, instead, slept well, woke without discomfort, and did my usual early shift at the factory.
I hope that the removal of parts of me has come to an end for a while.
HOJOKI: A HERMIT’S HUT AS METAPHOR was written by Kamo no Chomei, 1155-1216. In his 60s he built and lived in a hut 3 meters/10 feet square and 2 meters/ 6.5 feet high. Almost like living on GANNET.
Here is the prologue:
And Cavafy’s ‘Second Odyssey’. I like the poem but I think Penelope deserved better from Ulysses, though as I have observed you can never judge a marriage from the outside.
A little while after posting these, I was struck by the antithetical divergence of attitudes they express. I encompass them both.
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