where have all the children gone? Long time passing
Before you buy into conventional medical advice that suggests you sit still or get surgery to deal with joint pain, try functional training. You might find you have the power to touch your toes, do that squat, or even stand on your hands all on your own, and without pain.
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I have a friend who is 77 and since her 30s or less she had backpain, doctor told her that she has to walk daily and she did and since then the pain went away and she can still walk today for several hours, she does also senior exercise and swimming.
Problems sometimes arise with our jobs, like all day sitting which is really bad for our bodies… the best way to start a day is with stretching, I think, you don’t even need weights.
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A penny saved is a penny earned. 
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yes with me crocheting like I have been doing, my hips scream at me(heheheh) so yes walking is the best, I did get some of those lifts to put in my shoes, and seems to help a lot, so I have decided to walk or some form of exercise, stretching, yoga, daily, and has helped with the hips and back. btw turning 77 in a few months, just saying. a can of beans is sufficient to use as a weight, those stretchy bands are good too
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Sep 6, 2022
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Your link looks interesting. I sit way too much and simply need to move more.
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You may want to start with the first link.
Before you buy into conventional medical advice. The second link has many selections for targeting specific areas.
Here’s a few thoughts that goes with this post. 
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thank you leerla73, I needed that cause my hips have been hurting lately. I sure don’t want to have surgery, so walking and doing the exercises should help, I rewatched both .
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that little bit of an act of kindness goes a long way!!
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I stumbled over this recent news about Google, Meta (formerly Facebook) and Instagram these giants who harvest data in this case unauthorized data… so often they are fined in Europe (Google has to pay 4,1 billion Euro) in Russia and in South Korea. In general I use duckduckgo search browser… it’s just for local product shopping it isn’t as efficient as google.
Is it only in Europe that you can now reject all cookies on google and YT, just like on Viki? In US it might still be easier to continue harvest more… As far I remember Google had also a lawsuit in the US, not sure if they got fined as well. - If this continues, paying fines… will they go broke one day 
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/south-korea-fines-google-meta-over-privacy-violations
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I’m scrolling through songs of my youth, and come across songs after my youth, I quickly scroll along with an inner no! response, even though I like that person’s songs too . . . uhmmm. I also felt something, maybe sadness. What exactly is that feeling, have you had a similar experience? Is there a description for this experience?
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@leerla73 I didn’t quite get what you meant, but I noticed that many songs I liked back then sound somewhat a bit different it seems not all songs but still some… just why, do we hear differently when we age… and I do not mean the volume, same thing is with places they look different to me than back then and only some… “the Beauty of Aging” 
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Nostalgia I guess.
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English Literature: A Community
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Short Story of the Day:
The story of the butterfly
A man found a cocoon of a butterfly.
One day a small opening appeared.
He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours
as it struggled to squeeze its body through the tiny hole.
Then it stopped, as if it couldn’t go further.
So the man decided to help the butterfly.
He took a pair of scissors and
snipped off the remaining bits of cocoon.
The butterfly emerged easily but
it had a swollen body and shriveled wings.
The man continued to watch it,
expecting that any minute the wings would enlarge
and expand enough to support the body,
Neither happened!
In fact the butterfly spent the rest of its life
crawling around.
It was never able to fly.
What the man in his kindness
and haste did not understand:
The restricting cocoon and the struggle
required by the butterfly to get through the opening
was a way of forcing the fluid from the body
into the wings so that it would be ready
for flight once that was achieved.
Sometimes struggles are exactly
what we need in our lives.
Going through life with no obstacles would cripple us.
We will not be as strong as we could have been
and we would never fly.
So have a nice day and struggle a little and teach well.
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An elderly woman had two large pots, each hung on
the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck.
One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot
was perfect and always delivered a full portion of
water. At the end of the long walks from the stream
to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.
For a full two years this went on daily, with the
woman bringing home only one and a half pots of
water… Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its
accomplishments. But the poor cracked pot was
ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that
it could only do half of what it had been made to do.
After two years of what it perceived to be bitter
failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream.
'I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my
side causes water to leak out all the way back to
your house.’
The old woman smiled, 'Did you notice that there are
flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other
pot’s side?’ 'That’s because I have always known
about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your
side of the path, and every day while we walk back,
you water them.’ For two years I have been able to
pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table.
Without you being just the way you are, there would
not be this beauty to grace the house.’
Moral of the story:
Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it’s the
cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives
together so very interesting and rewarding. You’ve
just got to take each person for what they are and
look for the good in them.
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My thoughts at the moment are with the people in the earthquake zone in Turkey and Syria. In moments like these, I wished there was peace and everyone could reach out to help, but …
It hurts to watch the people suffer. So many victims, but well nature is always in progress nothing much that humans can do about it, either they ignore the threat of nature or they move to less likely involved regions.
Many foreign helpers started to prepare even before the internation help was requested, some of them on a plane or already in the country, I wish them luck, so they can help many who are in need.
There are many other regions that are hit with man-made tragedies or natural disasters in other countries as well. How I wished mankind was less power-crazed.
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