Poop!
Well, poop!
Well, poop already!
Remember when the jokes made by “old people” about bodily
functions were funny not because we understood them or experienced them, but
because our parents told us it was wrong to talk out loud about them?
The shock effect made them funny.
The
they-never-get-old fart jokes ("Blazing Saddles" need I say more?)
and
then
The
constipation and bowel movement jokes flushed out the line-up.
Noisy knees and stubborn backs…
Jokes about memory loss --- You
know, the ones they remembered they’d
forgotten.
“Oh,
you tell it.”
“No,
you go ahead.”
“No,
you…”
AND THEN
Old people
and “sex” jokes! Eek!
(A friend tells me that in her 55+ community farting is a common as breathing, though the resident association strongly recommends that one not be done in close promixity to the other.)
Remember, this was when we didn’t get the reality of the jokes because our bodies moved us fluently, transparently through the world. We didn’t even process that we’d just squatted, kneeled, done the splits, tumbled, danced all night, climbed a mountain. We just did what we did because we could. That’s what our bodies were for.
Remember, this was when we didn’t get the reality of the jokes because our bodies moved us fluently, transparently through the world. We didn’t even process that we’d just squatted, kneeled, done the splits, tumbled, danced all night, climbed a mountain. We just did what we did because we could. That’s what our bodies were for.
From new car to old car (I’m from a car state folks)
eventually something’s got to give.
The bodies we trusted mindlessly, the ones too many of us
invested only minimal maintenance in have changed with age, and it doesn’t feel
like a joke anymore.
So let me tell you about my bowel movement. Just kidding.
;-)
(my plate-and-screws repaired arm, 2011)
We’re fortunate to live in a time when creaky knees can be
replaced along with crotchety hips. We’ve figured out how to repair and replace
so many other parts to keep us alive and working. We know so much more about
how the body works and what it needs to remain healthy…or to get it back on the
path to health.
Pain relief comes in pill and pot form, and shots (not those
“shots.” Ok, those shots too.) Fitness, nutrition, and health regimes have
evolved from the one-type-fits-all presumptions to programs that can adapt to
the individual’s needs.
Here’s the trick. We have to do the maintenance work
ourselves to avoid living another joke.
So my question is: Why didn’t someone tell me when I was
young to take care of this body? If they had, I wouldn’t be living these jokes
today.
…Oh, that’s right, they did. I must have forgotten.
Actually, the jokes are pretty funny these days only because I know I'm not the only one f-a...passing wind. blush.
Come on, share 'em if you've got 'em. (Jokes that is.)
Actually, the jokes are pretty funny these days only because I know I'm not the only one f-a...passing wind. blush.
Come on, share 'em if you've got 'em. (Jokes that is.)