Electrons vs Salmon

Salmon swim upstream and work against the current to return to their birthplace in order to reproduce and give their offspring a fighting chance. They have specialized cells to help them navigate, much like the Ampullae of Lorenzini in cartilaginous fish like sharks and rays. (Can you tell I learned a new cool science thing today?)

Every time you take the strenghortunity to use your muscles you are acting in your best interest, like a Salmon.

When you choose the path of least resistance, like an electron, you are choosing the way of the lazy trolls. In the animal kingdom there are many that sleep long periods to digest and conserve energy for the hunt. In the human, with sloth-like behavior we get weaker and weaker.

Some of the ways we are choosing weakness:

Falling onto chair

Using hands to get out of chair

Using lift chair to raise you up

Using lift chair to lower you down

Bending from waist or hips instead of

squatting

Taking fewer trips to car for groceries

Using kitchen gadgets instead of

chopping/grating by hand

Using a wood splitter instead of an Axe

Doing dishes when wet rather than soaking

when dry (this is actually brilliant and a

time saver)

Driving instead of walking/biking

Taking the elevator/escalatorinstead of

the stairs

Wearing a diaper instead of getting up to

use the toilet (they are important to

prevent leaking but continuing to go to

the toilet will build strength and ideally

require pads rather than diapers,

I have definitely been choosing the way of the electron and am weak like a baby chicken now. Do as my father used to say, “do as I say and not as I do.” I am working on The Eagle Has Landed and doing soft lunar landings when I sit down. This is a good place to start. If you have to use a lift chair to raise you up, put it down before you sit down and then practice sitting slowly and softly.

Photo is looking over the Salish Sea, Strait of Juan de Fuca at very low tide from Sequim, Washington, with one of the Cascade volcanoes, Mt. Baker, near Bellingham, in the distance. Pink and Coho Salmon are making a comeback in the Pacific Northwest.