I'm Getting Overhauled!

Abandoned Corvair, Sunbury, Georgia.I've been blessed with pretty robust health for most of my life. In fact, I was doing okay at age 87 until I had a bad fall while going down into a canyon to photograph Potter's Falls near Wartburg, Tennessee. (You can read about it here.) That cost me some walking mobility, and things have been moving slowly downhill since then.I haven't been writing much lately because, frankly, I haven't been feeling great. I've been lethargic and unmotivated. I think what I need is an overhaul!Around the end of World War II, while I was still a child, my father owned a 1937 Chevrolet which he drove to work every day -- a 75-mile round trip. After about 60,000 miles the car would need new valves and piston rings, and maybe some bearings -- what we called an overhaul. Dad, a man of boundless energy and many abilities, would park the car in my grandmother's garage and do the work himself.Fortunately, I have somewhat more than 60,000 miles on my odometer, but the…