Sweet Talk: Using exercise to sync body and mind

Sweet Talk

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January 23, 2012

Anonymous Mineral Wells Index The Mineral Wells Index Mon Jan 23, 2012, 08:18 AM CST

By Guinn Sweet | sweettalk@mineralwellsindex.com

The English poet John Dryden, in the 18th Century, wrote a letter of advice to a kinsman: “Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work, for man to mend.”

I stumbled on a great truth this week, regarding health, happiness and physical exercise! Over the past 80-plus years, I have tried just about everything to improve my looks, my health, my self esteem … all those things which would make me appeal, outwardly, to those around me, as great as I appealed to myself, inwardly. I am not sure that I have expressed the situation today in such a way as to be understandable (is that a good word?) to you readers.

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Sweet Talk

Always pay your debts
My granddaddy taught me that you pay your debts owed, whether you can afford it or not.

May 21, 2012
May Granddaddy forgive my change of politics
May 13 is a day that will ever be in my memory.

May 14, 2012
Laughter never gets old
“Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”

May 7, 2012
Granny wasn't one to be fenced in or run over
“The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth (John 3:8, KJV).

April 30, 2012
I’ve quit worrying about things I cannot control
“There is a sumptuous variety about the … weather that compels the stranger’s admiration – and regret...

April 23, 2012
I am an outdoors girl after all
“Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king, In whose coat armour richly are display’d, All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring, In goodly colours gloriously array’d.” Edmund Spenser, in “Amoretti”, Sonnet xix, (1595).

April 16, 2012
I don't like spiders and snakes … or storm cellars
I have never been particularly frightened by windstorms; probably because of my greater dislike of the cellar, or “dugout,” which I was pressured to enter at the slightest indication of a storm when I was a child.

April 9, 2012
Divine intervention
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: …a time to be born, and a time to die…”

April 2, 2012
Aging is better with friends and family close
March 26, 2012
Being kept up to date can be shocking
In 1911, George Bernard Shaw wrote, in the induction of “Fanny’ First Play”: “It’s all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.”

March 19, 2012
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