Common sense

Summer begins.

It should be better than the last two summers because my feet are working this year, but it reminds me that it is possible to do almost anything if I start small.

This is the third time I've had to restart walking as an exercise and each time it began with simply walking some place close like the trash can, or corner.

I hope to be hitting tennis balls again this year, but that too will mean starting very slow.

In the past I would have set impossible goals and then wonder why they were exactly that. Now I know some of my limitations and while I don't like to admit I have any, they are there.

The bones in my feet even hurt in bed, if I forget to take a Tylenol twice a day, or stretch my toes too far. That is simply a fact of life now. My bones and tendons cannot deal with uneven ground unless I am very careful and deliberate.

I can deal with these things. They are so much better than sitting in a chair all day.

My mantra is "slow."