HAVE YOU GOT SIT-ON-BUTT-ITES?

The St. George Ironman is Guaranteed to Cure Sit-On-Butt-ites

St. George, Utah is the Place to Cure Sit-On-Butt-Ites

Our muscles are made to move and flex. When we don’t move and flex them atrophy sets in and muscle bulges are replaced with blobs of Fat. Our lungs are made to huff-and-puff. When we don’t use their full capacity, we can’t blow a straw house in. Our heart is made to PUMP, PUMP, PUMP. When it just goes pump pump, we end up being tired all the time.

Atrophy of the body leads to atrophy of the mind and soul.

Technology has removed physical work from most of our routine tasks.

Result: Sit-On-Butt-Ites, which is the most contagious of all diseases.

What to do?

Live in, or stay in St. George, Utah.

Three Reasons Why

First: There are hundreds of trails to walk, hike, run and bike on — all surrounded by the most spectacular scenery in the world. There are weekly, monthly, and annual hikes, races, and events making the St. George region an outdoors mecca.

Second: There are clubs and organizations full of enthusiasts and gurus to help you succeed with your chosen Sit-on-butt-ites. meds. (You do get to chose the treatment.)

Third: In your adventures, you will meet other recovering Sit-on-butt-ite’s, who will become lifetime friends and expand your horizons.

HOW

First: Check with your doctor.

Second: If you are a closet Sit-on-butt-ite, get started by walking around your neighborhood. You will be surprised by what you see and missed when you drove by.

There is plenty of parking some distance from where you are going. I park at the far end of store parking lots. I get some extra exercise and I alway know where to find my car.

Walking is a best exercise. Take advantage of St. George’s urban trails. Find reasons to walk instead of ride. Then treat yourself with the money you save on gas. Then move up.

Get started!

My son started running and in one year lost over 90 pounds and finished the year by running the St. George Marathon. See his finish.➤

Third: Here is the “Plug”. Spend some time exploring this  web site to find your cure. Explore on your own. Find a passion, Walking, Hiking, Cycling, Photo Hunting,Rockhounding, Volunteering, Walking Historical Sites, Discovering Indian Rock Art, Canyoneering, Sports Teams, Tennis, Pickleball, Yoga, Tai Chi, Geocaching, and more.

There is so much one can do here. The climate is good. You will sweat in the summer. Wear sunscreen, a hat and take plenty of water. It beats freezing your butt in the wintery north.

Discover the Adventure of Living in the Land Where the Earth Meets the Sky.

It’s time for my daily walk.

Carpe Diem,
Carl

A Happy Recovered Sitonbuttite

Spring

A little Madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for a King.
-Emily Dickison

Easter puts Spring in our blood. A symbol of hope, renewal, and new life, it promotes a new way of thinking and reguardless of age one can experience the freshness of youth.

April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
-Shakespeare

Carpe Diem.
Carl

When Was the Last Time You Tilted at a Windmill?

Don Quixote is in town at DSU tilting at windmills. Most of us at one time or another have Tilted at windmills and been knocked on our butt by reality.

Why do we do it? Because, over a lifetime of disappointments there are moments of victory and those exceptions make life worth living.

The joy of living is in the struggle.

The Man of La Mancha is about the possible inpossible.

Don Quixote forces the tavern maid to see what may be. Of course, the croud mocks her dream. That never happens in real live.

The maid sees herself as she has never seen herself before, and in an ironic twist, the Knight of Mirrors forces Don Quixote to see himself as he really is — we are left with our dreams.

If it were not for the "Don Quixotes" we would all still be living in caves.

“For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.”

― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

Sancho, the sidekick, follower, that no journey can be without.

“He who sees a play that is regular, and answerable to the rules of poetry, is pleased with the comic part, informed by the serious, surprised at the variety of accidents, improved by the language, warned by the frauds, instructed by examples, incensed against vice, and enamoured with virtue; for a good play must cause all these emotions in the soul of him that sees it, though he were never so insensible and unpolished.”

― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

Innkeeper

“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”

― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

She's only thinking of him?

“Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned (books), just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.”

― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

Carpe Diem,

Carl

It's Always Hiking Season in St. George, Utah

Hard Choice

St. George is at the center of a hiking mecca, from an easy city walking trail to Angels Landing or a slot canyon in Zion National Park, there are hundreds of hiking trails of varied difficulty and scenic wonder to try.

Hiking Is For Everyone

“I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least—and it is commonly more than that—sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements." 

- Henry David Thoreau

You never know what you will find around the next corner or over the next hill.

 “The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours …but it is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day.” 

- Henry David Thoreau

Carpe Diem,
Carl

Dumb Lines

The play "A Street Car Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams contains one of the dumbest lines ever spoken by a character in a modern play.

Mitch confronts Blanche with the stories he has heard about her past. Blanche, in desperation, opens herself up completely to Mitch, stripping herself bear, in a final attempt to survive.

Blanche has nothing left, but the truth.

Here are two lonely people who desperately need each other and have a chance to be happy.

If?

Mitch can say it doesn't matter.

He does not, he cannot, because of what Stanley has said and what his buddies will say. Plus, there is Mitch's mother and everyone else. Mitch, like Blanche is trapped. Of all the things that Mitch could have said, should have said, he says,

"You lied to me!"

BUT — Blanche just told Mitch the stark truth.

Mitch missed his chance to be what he could become and what Blanche hopes he is.

Didn't someone once say something about throwing stones, when another woman was facing her doom.

When Blanche leaves, she takes a piece of Mitch with her. Mitch has missed his chance and is back to being just one of the boys.

What is the dumbest line that you have said?

Carpe Diem,
Carl

Useless Habits

Habits can be good or bad, or somewhere in between.
We are admonished to replace bad habits with good ones. An admonition that is easer said then done.

Habits are safe, useful and both good and bad, because we know what to do without thinking. Thinking, there’s the rub. Thinking is hard, takes time and breaks the habitual flow.

Sometimes habits are useless.

I have been using Adobe Dreamweaver for over ten years, enjoying the benefits of the parodic upgrades in spite of the usual small painful stretch.

I could use Dreamweaver with my eyes closed on my duel  screens. Sometimes, showing off if a visitor was looking over my shoulder while I was working on a web site, bouncing between boxes on the two screens creating web magic.

For years web-masters have cried for adobe to fix the “Live View” window in Dreamweaver and make it a real live view — a very difficult task.

With two upgrades in the past months Adobe has done it and changed the entire workflow of the site.

Leaving me with a stack of useless habits. I was like a master buggy driver suddenly required to drive a car.

I attempted to make a simple change to this website that previously took a few seconds. As someone once said “all ___ broke loose!”. Three hours later the change was finally made.

Hours of unlearning and relearning followed.

Oh, how we fall-in-love with our habits.

 Cars are better then buggies and I’ll be happier when I catch-up.

’m still catching-up. Be patience. I’m in the middle of a major update on this website, that will help you discover the adventure of life here in he Land Where The earth Meets The Sky.

Carpe Diem,
Carl