I keep trying to escape the aging in Shakespeare's well-observed seven ages of man: Jacques refers to "shrunk shank" with legs dwindling to spindles. So I check in the mirror as I try to hold time back with exercise, jogging, tennis, occasional hiking and biking. The legs are holding up pretty well, thank you, and I thank God and my own efforts that I'm mobile and not reduced (yet) to the "shrunk shank" of Jacques's aging stages. It's in As You Like it, Act II, Scene 7.
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Twixt the Knee & the Ankle Comes Time's Scythe
I keep trying to escape the aging in Shakespeare's well-observed seven ages of man: Jacques refers to "shrunk shank" with legs dwindling to spindles. So I check in the mirror as I try to hold time back with exercise, jogging, tennis, occasional hiking and biking. The legs are holding up pretty well, thank you, and I thank God and my own efforts that I'm mobile and not reduced (yet) to the "shrunk shank" of Jacques's aging stages. It's in As You Like it, Act II, Scene 7.
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this demonstration of man's variety to different postures seemed to omit those of us who have a cane. :-)
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