Father Revival, Mother Survival

Anyone one who noticed that last week's newsletter was five days late please raise your hand. It seems Microsoft, that ungainly fledging of the computer world trying to gather its scrawny legs under its body, got tangled in its feathers. We at IronOnline understand as we too were once fragile and unsure, a tentative chirp in the crowding nest. I say, give them a chance; look out for the little guy, and be there, ready to help. A generous heart and a humble spirit are their own reward. If they do it again we take them out.

Next week, two pallets of YOUR BODY REVIVAL, shrink-wrapped in pairs and boxed in quantities of 44, will be delivered from our printer in Illinois to our doorstep in Aptos. Magic. Not really. It's a miracle. Magic would be if they all disappeared into the hands of hungry readers by the end of the month. Know anyone interested in straight talk about the problems and solutions of being overweight?

The book contains no pictures, no graphs, no cartoons, and no goofy caricatures of smiley round people growing smaller and happier as you turn the pages. It is an undiluted and unadulterated approach (as if there were any other kind) to the epidemic overweight dilemma, yet compassion and understanding squeeze through the pages like grins on impish faces caught with their hands in the cookie jar.

I offer an explanation followed by a disclaimer to all of you who have any plans of reading YOUR BODY REVIVAL. It is a book written for those who want to lose weight, have tried and failed. It's for those who are a little or a lot overweight, for whom the problem is novel, taking flight or deep seated, and for you who find yourself walking the tedious fine line; obesity is for many only a misstep away. Basic information you need to hear regularly, odd information you might not have heard before, considered or applied, and encouragement you never get enough of is inelegantly bound in the pages. Motivation comes abundantly in the form of heartening real-life vignettes and mild karate chops.

As you might suspect, Revival takes a cross-country (size of Asia) hike down the path of exercise, working out and weightlifting. How I ever got there I'll never know, but the meandering necessitates a brief disclaimer: if you've read Brother Iron, in reading Your Body Revival you might occasionally trip over a familiar routine or turn of phrase not exactly original. Some things cannot be replaced or they are worth repeating, maybe... more correctly, a year ago Revival was written largely for a different audience than Brother Iron, my self-plagiarism never to be discovered. Today, I believe that the readership will overlap.

That's my story for this, the third day of April; that is, if those bewildered ducks up in Seattle get their act together and send it out. Laree and I are on the road in Northern California, away from the website and routine for a few days... seeking perspective and originality; the real Laree and the real me, the hidden spirits and souls within these vessels of flesh, the center of our cosmic being, our inner selves. While we're at it we might as well pig out, get drunk, do drugs, scream and run naked in the woods.

Till we accomplish our mission, keep plenty of wind under your wings and amidst those madly twirling propellers... Dave

UPDATE: April 8, 2002
The books arrived this morning and are ready to ship
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