Comments on: Is There Life After Forty? http://www.cricketwalker.com/after/ The world, through my eyes and my heart . . . Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:28:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Alan Henderson http://www.cricketwalker.com/after/comment-page-1/#comment-2432 Alan Henderson Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:28:09 +0000 http://www.cricketwalker.com/after/#comment-2432 Kia ora Cricket, This is old news so you may have already discovered what I'm about to tell you. Despite being a serviceman, I was a slacker for most of my 20s and 30s. At 35 I was shanghaied into becoming a navy diver because the frigate I was serving in as an engineer didn't have a qualified diving officer. I had an injury which had left me with a calcified ankle and I thought I couldn't run. The CPO in charge of the diving course wasn't having a bar of that nonsense and kicked my backside into gear. To cut a long story short, thanks to Chief Diver Peter Kneebone, in a few weeks I was fit and during my 40s and 50s I was fitter than I had EVER been. My wife and I were out running with one of our grown up daughters one day. Daughter Coral was lagging behind and yelled out "What do you want me to leave you in my will!" There are very few things that age will stop you doing if you wish it so and if you have the determination to make it so. We all know that you certainly have that. It's not so easy now that I'm approaching 70, joints complain a bit - I'm probably getting payback for 20 years of early indolence - but I'm resolved to overcome that. More bike and rowing, less running. It still produces the buzz and it stops the brain from fossilizing. Go Cricket, go! Kia ora Cricket,

This is old news so you may have already discovered what I’m about to tell you.

Despite being a serviceman, I was a slacker for most of my 20s and 30s. At 35 I was shanghaied into becoming a navy diver because the frigate I was serving in as an engineer didn’t have a qualified diving officer.

I had an injury which had left me with a calcified ankle and I thought I couldn’t run. The CPO in charge of the diving course wasn’t having a bar of that nonsense and kicked my backside into gear.

To cut a long story short, thanks to Chief Diver Peter Kneebone, in a few weeks I was fit and during my 40s and 50s I was fitter than I had EVER been.

My wife and I were out running with one of our grown up daughters one day. Daughter Coral was lagging behind and yelled out “What do you want me to leave you in my will!”

There are very few things that age will stop you doing if you wish it so and if you have the determination to make it so. We all know that you certainly have that.

It’s not so easy now that I’m approaching 70, joints complain a bit – I’m probably getting payback for 20 years of early indolence – but I’m resolved to overcome that. More bike and rowing, less running. It still produces the buzz and it stops the brain from fossilizing.

Go Cricket, go!

]]> By: Cricket Walker http://www.cricketwalker.com/after/comment-page-1/#comment-795 Cricket Walker Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:50:08 +0000 http://www.cricketwalker.com/after/#comment-795 <p>Not sure how I missed this comment before, but somehow I did. Thank you for your kind words. I truly appreciate it. Sometimes my photography says things for me that gets lost in my writing. :)</p> Not sure how I missed this comment before, but somehow I did. Thank you for your kind words. I truly appreciate it. Sometimes my photography says things for me that gets lost in my writing. :)

]]> By: LiamSwan http://www.cricketwalker.com/after/comment-page-1/#comment-519 LiamSwan Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:38:02 +0000 http://www.cricketwalker.com/after/#comment-519 Forty, for a five letter word, it can really hit home for some people, like myself. I'm not there yet, but as my little boy gets older, I start to think, forty. So much I want to do for my boy as well as myself, and really, when you think about it, there's so little time, but then again, that's why I tend to not think about it. Cricket, I've pretty much read your entire blog, well that's a lie, but I have spent a few days reading every morning and sometimes in the evening. For someone in their 40's, I can honestly say you've captured, generations through your lens, and years of beauty. God, some of your photos are breath taking simple as that. Now I know what a friend meant 3 years ago by saying "The love you have for photography only shows when you frame that picture and hang it up on your wall." You're full of life cricket, and anyone with that much love and energy will forever stay young. Forty, for a five letter word, it can really hit home for some people, like myself. I’m not there yet, but as my little boy gets older, I start to think, forty. So much I want to do for my boy as well as myself, and really, when you think about it, there’s so little time, but then again, that’s why I tend to not think about it.

Cricket, I’ve pretty much read your entire blog, well that’s a lie, but I have spent a few days reading every morning and sometimes in the evening.
For someone in their 40’s, I can honestly say you’ve captured, generations through your lens, and years of beauty. God, some of your photos are breath taking simple as that. Now I know what a friend meant 3 years ago by saying “The love you have for photography only shows when you frame that picture and hang it up on your wall.”

You’re full of life cricket, and anyone with that much love and energy will forever stay young.

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