Take a walk

Have you heard enough about the recent Georgia election, protests, riots, storming the U. S. Capitol and all the other turbulence in our country? Thank goodness for the relief of cheering about the Browns victory over the Steelers or supporting the Buckeyes in an almost perfect season.

I continue to avoid adding to the never- ending avalanche of opinions about what’s happening to our country. I have plenty of ideas, and I’ll be glad to talk with you about them.

But for the sake of sanity — yours and mine —I’ll offer something else in these columns. So, take a breath, thank God for another day he has made and rejoice in it. Take a walk.

Here are some “walking comments” someone shared with me.

Walking can add minutes to your life. This enables you at 85 years old to spend an additional five months in a nursing home at $7,000 per month.

My grandpa started walking five miles a day when he was 60. Now he’s 97 years old and we have no idea where he is.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

The only reason I would take up walking is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.

I have to walk early in the morning, before my brain figures out what I’m doing.

I joined a health club last year, spent about 400 bucks. Haven’t lost a pound. Apparently, you have to go there.

Every time I hear the dirty word ‘exercise’, I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

I do have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.

The advantage of exercising every day is so when you die, they’ll say, ‘ Well, she looks good doesn’t she.’

If you are going to try cross- country skiing, start with a small country.

I know I got a lot of exercise the last few years … just getting over the hill.

We all get heavier as we get older, because there’s a lot more information in our heads. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.