let me do my exorcises

exorcises, exorcises

my mom had this thing she did with her fingers that i thought was funny when i was a kid. it was like finger calisthenics, accompanied by a little chant.

as far as exercise exercise, i remember Mom being a practitioner of what was known as "the bicycle." a floor exercise. i can still see her hips and butt, in those elongating jackie-o type slacks, up at the top of that triangle with her arms, and her long legs sticking up in the air from there. not that she did it a ton. but that was a memorable exercise.

it looked like this, and you'd make circles with your feet up there:


there's a more common exercise now by that name, it seems. an alternating crunch. horizontal. i see the bike motion in there, but Mom's was funnier. and probably funner.

exercising is probably funner than exorcising.

let me do my exorcises

exorcises, exorcises

my mom had this thing she did with her fingers that i thought was funny when i was a kid. it was like finger calisthenics, accompanied by a little chant.

as far as exercise exercise, i remember Mom being a practitioner of what was known as "the bicycle." a floor exercise. i can still see her hips and butt, in those elongating jackie-o type slacks, up at the top of that triangle with her arms, and her long legs sticking up in the air from there. not that she did it a ton. but that was a memorable exercise.

it looked like this, and you'd make circles with your feet up there:


there's a more common exercise now by that name, it seems. an alternating crunch. horizontal. i see the bike motion in there, but Mom's was funnier. and probably funner.

exercising is probably funner than exorcising.