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On my afternoon walk yesterday around the Head I ran into a couple doing the same thing, something you might consider ordinary except for the fact that nobody walks the Head.\u00a0 In all my years on the South End I\u2019ve rarely run into anyone down that southernmost stretch of beach.\u00a0 From Wilkes-Garry on the western side to Tyee Beach on the eastern, there\u2019s an uninhabited section of Camano that runs about 5 or 6 miles without a house or a shack or even an artist studio.\u00a0 Pristine.\u00a0 With views of the Olympics, Hat Island, Mt. Rainier, the south end of Whidbey, the Cascades and finally Mt. Baker.\u00a0 All to yourself.\u00a0 It is a place so remote the carcasses of dead whales stinking up the waterfront of Everett are towed here, presumably where the stench of rotting blubber won\u2019t bother anyone.<\/p>\n
But yesterday I run into two folks.\u00a0 Nice couple, live in a house in Wilkes-Garry I passed on my way beyond civilization so naturally we made a little conversation, moved beyond the weather, talked about this and that, but finally got to some palaver about exercise, diet, clean living, good health.\u00a0 My newfound buddy told me he was 69, probably, he said, a little older than me, but hey, he didn\u2019t drink or smoke, he ate a healthy diet and look, he was the picture of health.\u00a0 I mumbled something or other about how a regimen like that probably helped keep him the Adonis he was and his wife smiled beatifically.<\/p>\n
Course, that just opened the door to some health remedy he was promoting, hell if I listened close, but something to do with a miracle artery roto-rooting without medical procedures, clean out your arteries and plenty of other corollary benefits, mostly inducing me to consider escape options.\u00a0 When he got to the part about how he kept himself in shape with clean living, which he defined now as a life without sin, sin being a disease and a sickness unto itself, I had trouble resisting the urge to mention that my own recipe for a long and prosperous life kind of included drinking and drugs and probably sin too, a prescription that obviously worked slightly better than his judging by my advanced years and the fact that he\u2019d asked how far it was to Tyee, meaning he\u2019d never walked that far, just a Stroller, apparently, whereas I obviously walked that far.\u00a0 And oh, by the way, I said, \u00a0I\u2019m a few years older than you, just look a lot younger\u2026.<\/p>\n
I finally tore myself away from any further potential panaceas, bid them a good day and a good walk in the sun, then sauntered on home.\u00a0 I guess we\u2019re all looking for cures and remedies.\u00a0 I mean, I guess if you think you found the news you must want to share it.\u00a0 So to that end, any of you reading this and feeling a little under the weather, maybe dial back on your sinning a bit.\u00a0 You\u2019ll feel better in no time\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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