I had been asleep. But now, it was 12:01 a.m., and I was wide awake.

As my husband snored, I scrolled through a certain Paper of Record on my phone:

I had already spent days soaking up the unending stories of mortal wounds the Trump administration is choosing to inflict with vengeance on the inhabitants of this nation.

I needed to do something more active than just being thoroughly steeped in existential misery.

Which is how I started indexing past all the headlines describing the mounting horrors replicating around the country, and landed on a story about how a person can age gracefully with just a few simple tests of basic fitness.

Which, I noted somewhat arrogantly as I scanned the listings, included the ability to balance on one leg! Which, I surmised, is something I could do because I had read about it several years ago in an article, probably a cut-and-paste clone of this one, and when I wobbled a bit during my initial experimentation. Failed?........

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