Hello and welcome to this week’s WOW News, and my goodness here we are already, in a brand new financial year.

Thought I might not be here this week, but no, didn’t win the big Wednesday night ‘lotto. For the few people in Oz who don’t know and for our overseas friends, our lotto draw on Wednesday night this week was worth AU$106 million. Oh for just a little slice of that!

As they say, “better luck next time.”

And of course we’ve had the sad news from the entertainment world with week with some high profile people passing away, both in the States and in England. The Internet has been abuzz with messages, stories, tributes etc. A very sad week.

In this issue we’ll look at:

• Independence Day – 4th July;
• Walking to music;  and
• A funny Grandma story!

If you know anybody who might be interested in reading our newsletter, I’d be delighted if you would Forward this newsletter to them – or better still, see if they would like to Subscribe so they’ll receive their own copy in their Inbox each week.

Please ask them to visit our website: http://members.thewebonwheels.com.au, They will just need to put in their name and email address into the signup box on the right.

Until next week, please take good care of yourself.

Viv

“We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.”

American Indian Proverb

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Site to See

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Happy Birthday, America!

Happy Independence Day tomorrow, to our friends in the US. I hope you get to have a great celebratory day.

Today’s site is one of over 10 million webpages that mentions 4^th July or Independence Day.

This site has loads of information about this widely celebrated day. http://usacitylink.com/usa/

Why not do a Search yourself if you are interested to find out more. There’s information about the origins of Independence Day, how the day has been celebrated since 1776, advice on fireworks safety, all about the government of America and all the Presidents.

You can even buy a beautiful reproduction of the original ‘Declaration of Independence’.

If you start with a search on Google for Independence Day or 4^th July you will find loads of websites dedicated to this day. The website that’s listed first in the Google search result is this Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(United_States).

There are over 10 million search results on Google for Independence Day – care to do a bit of light reading?

Let us know if you found any interesting facts.

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How are you?

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Let’s Take a Walk (da da de-dum …)

This week we’ll have a look at walking. (Then hopefully, we’ll be DOING some walking)

We all know how beneficial walking is. It’s low impact, but you’re still weight-bearing, so it’s great for your bones, without jolting everything around. It gets you outdoors in the fresh air. That alone can lift a mood instantly. Even on cold and blustery days as we have here in Australia at the moment, just pop a jacket or coat on and stride out (or shuffle like me today) and get the oxygen into your blood, the lungs working, the blood pumping and the muscles working … Aaahh I’m feeling better already. And it’s FREE! Yeah

There’s a nice little site in America that specialises in music for walking. They have music you can download from their site, as well as physical CDs. If you have a piece of equipment such as an MP3 player or iPod, it’s fantastic to listen to music whilst you’re walking. Or you can be like me and listen to inspiring teleseminars and process what’s being said. Actually I find I walk really fast when I’m inspired by a speaker, and slower when I’m not interested in the discussion.

Now if the previous paragraph didn’t make sense at all, I’ll explain:

• You can get the music from this website, (if you pay for it). It is downloaded – that is, a copy of the music is sent over the Internet to your computer, where you can save the music as a digital file inside your computer.
• When you are ready, you can take that digital music file and put it onto a CD; listen to it on your computer’s speakers, or you can transfer that music file onto a little device like an MP3 player, or an iPod – something that has little headphones so you can listen to the music that’s been put on the device.

Any clearer? If not we’ll cover that in one of our upcoming ‘guides’.

The site is: www.mywalkingmusic.com and they have a newsletter too. So you can sign up for it, just pop in your name and email address and you’ll receive their newsletter, with motivation and tips etc to get you walking. And there’s some interesting articles on the site too, if you care to look around and click on some of their links. One of the articles I found really interesting had this:

Have diabetes? Live Longer by Walking

· If you have diabetes, walking just over 8 blocks a day can slash your risk of dying by more than one third. Go a little farther, and you’ll cut your risk by up to 50%, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

· After comparing activity levels and death rates of almost 2,900 adults who were diagnosed with diabetes 11 years ago, researchers found those who walked at least 2 hours a week at a moderate 3-MPH pace – that’s just 6 miles a week, or 8 blocks a day – were 39% less likely to die from heart disease, the number one health threat to people with diabetes. Walkers who logged 3 to 4 hours a week (30 to 45 minutes a day) sliced their risk in half.
- Prevention Guide. Walking Fit, April 2004

Now not all of us can be like my Uncle David (hi, David ) who is an inspiration to me. He walks regularly, and he’s worked up to about 6 kilometres (about 3 1/2 miles) at least once per week, but often three times a week. He’s so fit and energetic, it’s fantastic to see. And energy is one of the many benefits of walking. If you invest a bit of time and effort into going for a walk, you’ll come back energised.

If you can band together with one or two other people that’s a fabulous way to enjoy the walk. You won’t need music then, as you can chat along the way. And it keeps you motivated.

If your friend is coming on Tuesday at 10 o’clock then you’ll be more likely to get yourself ready and not find an excuse to put it off. I have a neighbour who does just that, she walks every Wednesday and there are many times when she’s told me she really didn’t want to go, but she knew Ann would be showing up so she made herself get ready. And each and every time she’s been glad she did because when she finished the walk, she felt marvellous.

So, will you don your runners/walkers/trainers – whatever shoes are best for your feet and walk the block today?

And for those members who can’t get out to walk, perhaps you could manage to sit near an open window, or even manage to sit outside, and take some lovely deep breaths, perhaps move your arms in long slow movements, circle the ankles to get the circulation going. Every little bit you do, is something more than nothing.

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Humour me!

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A Letter from Grandma

A LETTER FROM GRANDMA

Grandma is eighty-eight years old and still drives her own car. She writes:

Dear Grand-daughter,

The other day I went up to our local Christian book store and saw a
‘Honk if you love Jesus’ bumper sticker.

I was feeling particularly sassy that day because I had just come from a
thrilling choir performance, followed by a thunderous prayer meeting.

So, I bought the sticker and put it on my bumper.

Boy, am I glad I did; what an uplifting experience that followed.

I was stopped at a red light at a busy intersection, just lost in
thought about the Lord and how good he is, and I didn’t notice that the
light had changed.

It is a good thing someone else loves Jesus because if he hadn’t
honked, I’d never have noticed.

I found that lots of people love Jesus!

While I was sitting there, the guy behind started honking like crazy,
and then he leaned out of his window and screamed, ‘For the love of
God!’

‘Go! Go! Go! Jesus Christ, GO!’

What an exuberant cheerleader he was for Jesus!

Everyone started honking!

I just leaned out my window and started waving and smiling at all those
loving people.

I even honked my horn a few times to share in the love!

There must have been a man from Florida back there because I heard him
yelling something about a sunny beach.

I saw another guy waving in a funny way with only his middle finger
stuck up in the air.

I asked my young teenage grandson in the back seat what that meant.

He said it was probably a Hawaiian good luck sign or something.

Well, I have never met anyone from Hawaii, so I leaned out the window
and gave him the good luck sign right back.

My grandson burst out laughing.

Why even he was enjoying this religious experience!!

A couple of the people were so caught up in the joy of the moment that
they got out of their cars and started walking towards me.

I bet they wanted to pray or ask what church I attended, but this is
when I noticed the light had changed.

So, grinning, I waved at all my brothers and sisters, and drove on
through the intersection.

I noticed that I was the only car that got through the intersection
before the light changed again and felt kind of sad that I had to leave
them after all the love we had shared.

So I slowed the car down, leaned out the window and gave them all the
Hawaiian good luck sign one last time as I drove away. Praise the Lord
for such wonderful folks!!

Will write again soon,

Love, Grandma

Bye for this week,
Smiles and best wishes
Viv

The Web on Wheels
Phone: 61 3 9787 7500
Fax: 61 3 9787 5476
email: info@thewebonwheels.com.au

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