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By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis watched from their recliners as the worlds most accomplished young people floated down the Seine in the opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics.
While the Olympics must necessarily focus on youth at the top of their game, it also has the effect of pointing out to the keeper’s age group, that tying your shoes in the morning or picking up a dropped object may not be medal-worthy but it is a damn big deal. So is aligning your spine to facilitate getting up out of a recliner and pulling leftovers out of the back of the fridge.
And given that some of these activities may be camera worthy as novelty accomplishments, it is perhaps just as well that the media stay in Paris and focus on the Seine.
In the meantime, the keeper went for gold when he bent to pick up Phyllis’s dropped compression gloves.
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis watched from their recliners as the worlds most accomplished young people floated down the Seine in the opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics.
While the Olympics must necessarily focus on youth at the top of their game, it also has the effect of pointing out to the keeper’s age group, that tying your shoes in the morning or picking up a dropped object may not be medal-worthy but it is a damn big deal. So is aligning your spine to facilitate getting up out of a recliner and pulling leftovers out of the back of the fridge.
And given that some of these activities may be camera worthy as novelty accomplishments, it is perhaps just as well that the media stay in Paris and focuses on the Seine.
In the meantime, the keeper went for gold when he bent to pick up Phyllis’s dropped compression gloves.
Photo by Bill Stokes