Cautious plan
According to the news, one of our national leaders has died. Not of old age but rather from a fall. Nothing to do with the autumn. I do not know what happened, exactly. Was he balancing on the kitchen chair? Did he come around the corner too fast and do a slip slide on a loose carpet? I have been told that these are risks. So far in my life I have done remarkably little damage to my body. There was that thing with my nose a very long time ago but it was not a break. More of a slipped out of the notch and had the head put back in. I still have all my original pieces and no scars on my wrists or ankles or knees or shoulders or any of the usual places. That could change as I get older but I do have a solution. Find a good couch and get comfortable and stay there. Out of harm’s way. Forget trying to get to the top of that tree. As for running outside in an ice storm, that just sounds like foolishness. I gave up ice skating a long time ago. I’m going to try and make it through the next few decades without a need to meet a bone doctor. I know, they have better names for themselves but I’m going to go with the bone doctor thing. Has a bit of an old time tone to it. I bring this up because we’re in the middle of a minor ice storm. Just enough to put a glisten on the trees and close the schools. A minor thing. But if I was to become careless I could turn it into something much more important. Dramatic, even. I do not want to phone the family and say that I now have a cast or a sling or harness. Remember falls kill. Not waterfalls. I do not think this is something that affects only politicians. In any case I’m not going to take up a career of any sort that will leave me apt to get hurt. That’s part of the wisdom that comes with age.
