STEVE VANTREESE | The Sun
Retiree and
now-fishing guide Randy Kuhens (right) shows some
Kentucky Lake bass after a get-together with Marshall
County neighbor Herb Estes. |
Outdoor activities
can improve your quality of life
BY STEVE
VANTREESE
svantreese@paducachsun.com
Life-preserving, even life-saving therapy might be found at the
operational end of a fishing pole, in a pair of hiking
boots, in the chilly seclusion of a duck blind or maybe
even at the controls of some gardening tool.
Rejuvenation, a balm for life's stresses, anxieties and burdens,
comes in different forms to different people. It's quite
common, however, to find that outdoor activities in
general are tonic for the spirit. That's especially true
of spirits that have acquired kinks from indoors
tribulations such as careers and the pursuit of legal
tender.
Randy Kuhens, 59, is a Marshall countian dwelling on the shore of
Kentucky Lake, which mostly is the environmental remedy
for the frayed portion of his existence. Kuhens is not
long into a new life as a fishing guide after retiring
from his former role as manager for sales and product
development of a manufactured home company.
Kuhens doesn't underplay the transition from his former job to
retirement and the taking up of a new job of sorts that
he does gleefully.
"It's added 10 years to my life," Kuhens said flatly. "I'm a
changed person - and really in a good way. Our kids are
away and at school now, and since I've retired and
started doing this, they don't seem to mind coming home
now."
Kuhens said his wife, Martha, lately has noticed more of the
husband he was shortly after their marriage than during
a long stretch of his career.
"I had a high-paying but high-pressure job, and I kind of forgot
myself along the way," he said. |
