Eclectic Haze

Tag: learning

  • Brain click

    It has occurred to me that the reason my legs, back and feet have been in such good health my entire life is completely due to dancing and  teaching dance. Thank you Cory Zamora, my Sensei. Despite working at doing hair for 50 years, broken kneecap last year and turning 67, I am still bendable and walking upright with no back or upper body issues.

    Recently i was having trouble with my heel on the  right due to spending a year of favoring my left leg because of the knee cap thing. A friant (friend/client) told me to “write the alphabet” with my feet as many times a day as i could while working. And it worked! I now get up in the morning (after doing that bit of exercise of course) and am able to walk with much less pain. As an added benefit, my left leg and knee are getting stronger and the knee isn’t swelling up. go me!

    I have decided that aging doesn’t mean growing old… it means growing smarter. Learning and research is what it’s all about. It takes 7 to make a change and 21 to create a habit. I am now in possession of this body and it is my Christmas gift to me so from here on I am taking care of me.

    Wow! That went off the rails didn’t it 😉 the brain click was this morning when I realized that not dancing every day for a year can be detrimental to my health. So there you go… this could have been a very short post. ah well, you know me. Have a great week!

  • monday musings

    i am getting ready to go off fb, already off twitter and perusing the interverse to see what else i signed up for so i can delete it all.

    and i am actually going to start writing letters or postcards!

    no i am not going into hiding, not becoming a hermit, just realizing i am spending a little too much time posting random stuff in order to stay on the top tier of my “friends” feed.

    that’s sad… so am focusing on a blog that allows me to be me, without the worry of wondering if anyone is “reading” me. it’s a freeing place to be in because the social network has become little more than a marketing space. i joined up because i missed the chatrooms of yesteryear. you learn, real quick, that it is a like-dislike- world now, instead of dialogue. the vector group was the only place where i had actual conversations, probably because we had something in common. and i learned a lot from them. but there were still the jerks so it wasn’t all roses and tech… just like the real world.

    any of my friends can find me here, start a dialogue, comment or ignore me and that is the beauty of it. if they want to stay in touch they can email, call, txt or follow this blog… and i will be able to email, call, txt or say hi if they follow, without having to scramble through acres of posts that presume to know what i want, when i want, must buy, read, comment or l/dl… and it’s very very annoying..

    so this is conversation, random thoughts, the things i wonder about, things i see, dreams. if you want to know me, this is where i will be. hope to see you here.

    ah… almost forgot. guess what? i am learning spanish and italian! it isn’t easy because school was 46 years ago but learning new things keeps you young, they say.

    oh, and i will be teaching dance 2 nights a week starting the 1st of april… aren’t you excited? i certainly am!

    ciao