From the Editor's Computer
People used to walk everywhere, and long distances at that. In a biography of the Alcott family (Lousia Alcott is the author of “Little Women”), I read that Mr. Alcott would set out to walk to the house of his friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson. The distance that he rambled along? Roughly 45 kms, or the distance between Alix (or Mirror) and Lacombe.
No wonder people are not as fit as they used to be. In our quest to make life easier with labour saving devices (that includes vehicles), society has lost its health. The daily round used to consist of lots of physical activity. What does it consist of now?
Beth
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