Grumpy Valentine, Rosy Steps

by rosemary on 02/15/09 at 5:29 pm

Yesterday, Valentines Day, was our monthly club meeting and as always ‘twas a bit miserable. I think most club members realize that I have a genetic disability [I use a cane] but few know how much I would rather be standing up and moving. Sitting is bad; I must move to stay comfortable. Brunch was delicious and heart healthy. As a historian, I enjoyed our guest speaker from tincan.org. Tincan’s Memory History Project is putting primary documents and oral histories of women’s history on the web for open access. Tincan is scanning our clubs minute books that go back to 1907 for the project. When my mind is happily engaged I can ignore pain [the truly amazing positive effects of serotonin], but then the business meeting begins. I really should have leave before my body enters agony stage.

Well, but I was sharing a table with Shirley Phipps, and I just enjoy her so much and see her so rarely. We can talk about the clubhouse [she loves it too] Vintage Fashion, [she coordinates the clubs huge collection and trunk shows and I have that old Textile Sciences BS and can eat and breathe costume history] and Washington State affairs [she is GFWC WA State president and I am always fascinated by what’s happening on the other side of the pond]. Time with a good friend is precious, so I stayed.

In practice, at club meetings I always choose to sit beside a 20” square column located in the south third of the room where we meet. That is so I can stand up and hide behind the column and do a sort of stand-in-place somatic dance when the pain gets to me. I am sure some of the older ladies in the club have wondered what I am doing behind there. Yesterday, I was sitting in the right place but I did not use my column device. I need to be more honest with myself and just leave when the pain level escalates. Of course those club meetings might be shorter if we met more frequently. I could then leave club meetings with a sense of accomplishment, not just survivorship.

Any way, what I really sat down to write about: I got excited when I received my GFWC Step for the Roses kit on Friday the 13^th from http://www.stepfortheroses.com. I popped open the box, adjusted the pedometer to extra sensitive and clipped it on right away. On M-W-F, I water run with weights and all sorts of other gear, in the deep end of a 90 degree Fahrenheit pool. I love my 4-5 hours a week of pool time. My Step for the Roses pedometer will never know about that, it’s not waterproof. On the other four days of the week I will measure real walking. I am curious what I can do, as I am definitely mobility-impaired-on-land and 6000 steps a day goal sounds like a lot. I will probably not add much to the bottom line of our club results but I will try. I hope many other club members across the country will join me in this gentle effort to encourage physical fitness in adult Americans. And maybe wearing this step reminder thing will get me up to protest march during those long club meetings I attend. What message should I write on my sign?

2 Comments

Diane Addante

Feb 16th, 2009

1:40 pm

Hi there!

Thanks for sharing your story. I think the “Step for the Roses” is a great idea. Your sign…how about “shorter meetings leave more time for doing” or something along those? Our founding mothers were certainly about doing, not talking about it. The length of our club meetings varies wildly depending on the President, and our current Pres really moves it along. Love it! Good luck,

Diane Addante, GFWC Illinois

Siluqoig

Jan 31st, 2010

4:15 am

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