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Right. Even my fingertips hurt. I’ve learned an important lesson the past couple weeks about my age and what it now demands of me. They say age is just a number, it’s in a person’s head, 46 is the new 31.5 … whatever. My gym closed suddenly about six weeks ago. It wasn’t as if I was on the way to looking like Hugh Jackman (though I do dance a lot like him), but I was getting just enough activity to keep my body from atrophying into dust or exploding in a mushroom cloud of barbecue sauce.

The following month revealed I’ve reached an age where this whole body thing I’ve taken for granted for many decades requires maintenance, “Working out” (a term I dislike but is much shorter than “pretending I can look like a famous man craved by many women”) used to be about building up the body I have and don’t necessarily dislike, Suddenly, all that “working out” seems necessary, Because after just a few weeks of inactivity, a guy shouldn’t get winded trying to keep up with his 6-year-old daughter on a flat hike shaded riley blake - c6953 - ballerina bows - ballet shoes and bows on white - one yard of fabric. by the yard by redwood trees..

Not that I did. I’m just saying … it could happen. Anyway, I found myself feeling … yucky is really the best way to describe it. No energy, not much focus (not that there was much to begin with) and a general feeling of bleh. After four weeks of not spending even a paltry three or four hours per week exercising, it’s quite possible the aforementioned hiking possibility left me with less wind than an aged whoopee cushion. So, like the good American I am, I overreacted. For context, know that I was waiting for the owner of my previous gym, a friend, to open a new place, while I sat around, eating baked goods and watching cartoons. When my nonsensical expectations didn’t materialize, and my kid dusted me on a walk hardly longer than a couple laps at the mall, I went crazy and joined the kind of big-box gym I swore I’d never join. I hate yelling, sweaty, weight-tossing people who put on makeup and do their hair to go to the gym — and that’s just the men.

The overreacting continued into my first three days there because — apparently forgetting the other 53 times I stopped, then started working out — I completely overdid it, Even though I felt like I’d been beaten with a tennis racket after the first day, I kept overdoing for two more, because it was the week of July 4 and I’m an American, Now I’m sore like I haven’t been since I was 19, when I started a program with two competitive weightlifters who riley blake - c6953 - ballerina bows - ballet shoes and bows on white - one yard of fabric. by the yard thought it would be funny to work me until I threw up and my chest was swollen with enough lactic acid to make me look like Conan the Barbarian..

Right — moderation is key. Even if it is un-American. The lesson I’m learning is that I’ve aged and, while a month or two off didn’t used to be enough to completely drive me into the ground, it is now. Unless someone has a magical hot tub for me to soak in, there’s no going back. Once I can feel my arms and legs again, I have to get back into a balanced groove. Because I don’t like feeling bleh all the time and, frankly, new cartoons aren’t so great these days. And starting up again is just too painful.

A talented clarinetist whose father played alto saxophone in swing bands, Adams drove cross-country in his Volkswagen Beetle and landed a job on the Oakland waterfront as a “lumper,” climbing into huge containers to unload goods, He was “quite confused” about where his life was headed, he’s said, But Adams, all of 24 years old, lucked into a teaching job at the San Francisco Conservatory and hit his groove, Now 67, he has lived for decades in Berkeley, has won a Pulitzer Prize for music and has built long-lasting associations with many of the world’s great orchestras and riley blake - c6953 - ballerina bows - ballet shoes and bows on white - one yard of fabric. by the yard opera houses, including the San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic and San Francisco Opera..

Without ever moving to New York, he has grown influential and famous and remains ever loyal to the Left Coast. One of his more fruitful associations is with the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz, a showcase for brand new orchestral music. The 2014 edition opens Sunday and runs through Aug. 10. At Cabrillo, Adams notes with a laugh, Haydn and Mozart have been “jettisoned.” And Adams, says Cabrillo music director Marin Alsop, has become “kind of a hometown hero. When he attends a concert, he’s mobbed. He’s like a rock star.”.

He’s one of 13 composers in residence this summer at the festival, where his latest opus — a 35-minute Saxophone Concerto, densely motor-driven and jazz-inspired without posing as “jazzy”– will be performed Aug, 9 by soloist Timothy McAllister and the festival orchestra, led by Alsop, It is riley blake - c6953 - ballerina bows - ballet shoes and bows on white - one yard of fabric. by the yard Adams’ 18th work to be performed at Cabrillo — where he once was music director, in 1991 — and he recently has shown his gratitude by joining with the festival to commission new works by composers one-third his age, It’s “to keep the energy going,” he explains, and to nurture a new generation of composers who actually believe, as he does, that music can change listeners’ lives..

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