Walking Backwards Is Good For Your Knees
So I was told this morning by a person walking inside Town and Country Mall, on the counsel of her chiropractor. I get in some walking there a few days a week before work and I had a second motive besides getting fitter (and oh, how I wish this equated with lower blood sugar too!) ... Martha has finally told us something she wants for her birthday the fourth of February! Sarah, Jeffrey, and I will most likely pick up Martha's gifts while she is at work Saturday; I welcome their input as well as their showing her they'll take time to honor her. Just remember to save some for me!
Hallelujah, Martha does not have a blood clot!
That is what she was fearing for parts of her left leg had been getting so numb and not the body part falling asleep kind of numb. Yesterday morning she scheduled herself for a doctor's appointment and was told it wasn't a clot, but she does have high blood pressure and got prescribed some meds for it. And this morning she sounded and moved about better than she has for the last week or two, which certainly helps!
Fawaz, Ramzi. The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics. New York: New York University Press, 2016. ISBN 9781479823086
Apparently New Mutants didn't originate with Marvel Comics and Charles Xavier's third attempt at teaching people whose superhuman powers manifested themselves at puberty that with great power comes great responsibility, but rather came about in 1964 when a literary critic described American youth as "new mutants", social rebels who sought to sever themselves from the prevailing culture and make themselves anew.
At least I'd read most of the extended storylines he refers to, something handy to do!
And unlike a real-world mutant which is any organism with a permanently-altered genome, the prevailing mutants in comic books are often seen as an expression of real-life extant and desired social progress. Marvel's The New Mutants are to this University of Wisconsin English professor simply the latest in a tradition of embodying society's most marginalized groups in a tradition that began with DC's Justice League of America. Then Marvel ran with it ... and the author tends to focus on the groups of heroes like the Fantastic Four and X-Men as the most change-provoking.
The Editors of LIFE Books. LIFE with Father. New York: Time Inc., 2009. ISBN 9781603200585
Simply put, excellent photographs and as much as is possible in a text capturing the spirit of fatherhood, in both good times and bad. And as I'm finishing this fifth paragraph and deciding what to document, like visiting with Tevye Saturday from this week's production of Fiddler on the Roof and getting on the local news I was told the following day -- though Jeffrey was really more of a streak on camera -- and seeing where at Gideon's Trumpet the ...
Oh wait, I have to save something for tomorrow!
David
Hallelujah, Martha does not have a blood clot!
That is what she was fearing for parts of her left leg had been getting so numb and not the body part falling asleep kind of numb. Yesterday morning she scheduled herself for a doctor's appointment and was told it wasn't a clot, but she does have high blood pressure and got prescribed some meds for it. And this morning she sounded and moved about better than she has for the last week or two, which certainly helps!
Fawaz, Ramzi. The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics. New York: New York University Press, 2016. ISBN 9781479823086
Apparently New Mutants didn't originate with Marvel Comics and Charles Xavier's third attempt at teaching people whose superhuman powers manifested themselves at puberty that with great power comes great responsibility, but rather came about in 1964 when a literary critic described American youth as "new mutants", social rebels who sought to sever themselves from the prevailing culture and make themselves anew.
At least I'd read most of the extended storylines he refers to, something handy to do!
And unlike a real-world mutant which is any organism with a permanently-altered genome, the prevailing mutants in comic books are often seen as an expression of real-life extant and desired social progress. Marvel's The New Mutants are to this University of Wisconsin English professor simply the latest in a tradition of embodying society's most marginalized groups in a tradition that began with DC's Justice League of America. Then Marvel ran with it ... and the author tends to focus on the groups of heroes like the Fantastic Four and X-Men as the most change-provoking.
The Editors of LIFE Books. LIFE with Father. New York: Time Inc., 2009. ISBN 9781603200585
Simply put, excellent photographs and as much as is possible in a text capturing the spirit of fatherhood, in both good times and bad. And as I'm finishing this fifth paragraph and deciding what to document, like visiting with Tevye Saturday from this week's production of Fiddler on the Roof and getting on the local news I was told the following day -- though Jeffrey was really more of a streak on camera -- and seeing where at Gideon's Trumpet the ...
Oh wait, I have to save something for tomorrow!
David
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