![]() ![]() It sounds like a lot, but you can cover that distance in the course of an average day without even trying, especially if you have stairs in your house, and a steady flow of people who regularly knock, wanting you to accept a package or give them directions or just listen patiently as they talk about birds, which happens from time to time when I’m home, in West Sussex, the area of England that Hugh and I live in. Ten thousand steps, I learned, amounts to a little more than four miles for someone my size-five feet five inches. “Hard?”Ī few weeks later, I bought a Fitbit of my own, and discovered what she was talking about. The goal is to take ten thousand steps per day, and, once you do, it vibrates.” I leaned closer, and as she tapped the thickest part of it a number of glowing dots rose to the surface and danced back and forth. You synch it with your computer, and it tracks your physical activity.” Lesley pushed back her shirtsleeve, and as she reached for an olive I noticed a rubber bracelet on her left wrist. Then he opened his mouth and said, ‘You’re so . . . old.’ ” ![]() “They took off the bandages, and for the first time in two decades he saw his wife. “These are people who’ve been blind for years, and suddenly, miraculously, they can see again.” She brought up a man who’d been operated on in a remote area of China. “It’s incredibly rewarding,” she said as our antipasto plate arrived. Lesley works for a company that goes into developing countries and trains doctors to remove cataracts. I was at an Italian restaurant in Melbourne, listening as a woman named Lesley talked about her housekeeper, an immigrant to Australia who earlier that day had cleaned the bathroom countertops with a bottle of very expensive acne medication: “She’s afraid of the vacuum cleaner and can’t read or write a word of English, but other than that she’s marvellous.” ![]()
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