This Happened

(via gocomics.com)

by LB

A better title for this post may be “How I broke my sternum” a few months back. In the case of this particular Larry (that’s me), I was doing a front plank, which I held for a wobbly minute, after which I pushed up from it so I could be in a position where my thighs could do the actual work of standing up.

I’d done it daily for years, but this time I heard and felt a “crack!” It took about three months to heal, although it was only supposed to take half that time. The reason it didn’t is because I kept testing it out by using – I mean trying to use – light dumbbells for flyes, which of course only exacerbated the situation.

Moral of the story? Hmm, how about “Competition is an unnecessary and dangerous activity, even when the only person you’re competing with is you.

(image by Joe Heller in honor of the late, great Peter Yarrow)

LYMI,
LB

It’s Holiday Break Time…

(Co-Pilot AI comes through)

See y’all next year!

Ever Heard of Isaac Bashevis Singer?

He was a brilliant Jewish-American writer who wrote in Yiddish to keep the language alive.

He was also the first Jewish-American existentialist, even though no one ever thinks of him that way.

Well, almost no one. Kareem Abdul Jabar does. Because if there’s one thing Kareem does well, and always has done well, it’s knowing the score. His column today, about a number of things is, to put it simply, brilliant, and I was especially impressed by his Daily Quote: