There was a prompt a while back: Have you had any broken bones? And I’ve decided to ‘riff’ on it a bit… In short, the answer is yes…

Way more than I’d like to admit… Having been a Judo tournament competitor for more than 40 years, not to mention the daredevil inclinations and exploits of my youth (cliff diving, rock-climbing, lots of hitchhiking, horseback riding, a member of bands in rowdy bars, demonstrating in antiwar protests, motorcycle racing, etc.).

Broken bones, sprains, pulls, and tears were common features of my ‘active life-style’. Fortunately, nothing truly crippling resulted from any of my ‘exploits’ … ‘knock on wood’…

Now, I’m ‘sedate’, laid back, and only ‘jam traffic’ on my tadpole on the way to the Tucson Loop and home… Don’t allow myself to get too excited about much of anything now … except the fat load of BS, we’re constantly fed on a daily basis on social media and legacy news outlets alike … the algorithm clickbait.

That’s it … rant done!

–LE – 5/19/25