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PAGE 20 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1994 The true and The new year is traditionally a time for resoluâ€" tons, especially new diets and fitness programs to reverse the overinduigence of holiday eating. Sesides their figures, people are looking inward and questioning spiritual values, maybe looking at a creative writing or a yoga course. Here‘s a book that might fit such a search. You‘ll find Brenda Ueland‘s Strength to Your Sword Arm not in the seifâ€"help section but under essays. It‘s the prodâ€" uct of a vibrant mind who spoke out passionately all her life SBrenda Ueland is best known for "If You Want to Write", which was republished in 1987 and now has more than 140,000 copies in print. She ived in Minneapolis until her death in 1985. She wrote columns for weekly and monthly papers and journals all her life and this collection, from Holy Cow Press (252 pages, $19.95), repreâ€" sents just the tip her uncollected writings. Judgâ€" ng by the sparkling insights into those she profiled (including Carl Sandburg and Robert Penn Warren) and the iconoclastic vision of her political and social essays, she must have been an amazâ€" ng person to meet At age 84 she attempted a run up Pike‘s Peak. She was fanatical about walking: her pace was good for nine miles at 20 minutes a mile without a rest. She required exercise to keep her "creâ€" ative fountain‘ of imagination clear. Her firm rejection of alcohol and tobacco was in no way combined with a holierâ€"thanâ€" thou asceticism. She was a feminist and radical flaunter of fashâ€" on decades before other women. She champiâ€" ined animal rights and blasted vivisection axperiments for years. She died before the men‘s movernent got underway (with the help of another midwestern iconociast, Robert Bly] but presaged is concern about the stunting of men‘s emoâ€" tons "Now this nonâ€"listening of able men is one f the saddest things in the world â€" the loneliâ€" mess of fathers, of those quietly sad men who |Conlemporary designed Day & Night Allâ€"Youâ€"Canâ€"Eat(« NEW LOCATION IN GUELPH reception facilities and & Gourmet Low prices International Dishes Attentive 150 TTEMS Service Superb Chinese INTERNANONA 255 Woodlawn Rd. W. But back to questions of spiritual values. in an essay entitled "What Do | Believe?" she answers: "That we live forever. Some people are less good than others because they are, so to speak, still in the third grade. This is an explanation that makes it easy to forgive them (figuring that I am about in the fourth grade}, for | would like to help them pass to the next grade. | believe perfection is implicit in all, but it takes time for it to evolve. But why fret then? God can take His time. He can wait. Time is nothing for Him." move among their grown children like remote ghosts." But sanctimonious piety is not her forte. "I believe in wonderful egotism, in being "kingy", that the malaise of the world is soâ€"called modesty, usually a form of conceit. 1 believe that we should all have a reckless, arrogant, joyful blaze of selfâ€" esteem, selftrust, selfâ€"belief. You cannot have enough pride or egotism or energy or bravery, but it must be centrifugal (generous) and not cenâ€" tripetal (greedy}. _ Can such zest for life be quenched? Not when characters like Brenda Ugland live on in their words. "Don‘t be grim!" she cries. "Be careless, reckless! Be a lion, be a pirate! Be a knight! Strive for a liquid, open, bouncy spirit! Keep the fountain clear! Now watch me do handâ€"spring by the lake! Pay attention!" Chuck Erion is a Waterloo freelance writer. Monday to Thursday 5:00 p.m, â€" 9:30 p.m. Adult $11.99 Child" $5.99 Friday to Sunday & Holiday 4:30 p.m. â€" 10:00 p.m Adult $12.99 Child" $6.99 "Child 4 â€" 10 years old PRICES SLJECT TO CHANGE WTHOLT NONCE BRUNCH Saturday, Sunday & Holiday 11:00 a.m. â€" 3:00 p.m. Adult $8.99 Child*" $4.99 OTHER LOCATIONS Sunday to Thursday 11:00 a.m.â€"10:00 p.m. Friday, Saturday & Holiday 11:00 a.m. â€" 11:00 p.m. beautiful 6 LUNCH Monday to Friday 11:30 a.m. â€" 3:00 p.m Adult $5.99 Child" $3.99 DINNER oB Yoar BUFFET HOURS BUSINESS HOURS qutive NWME ONTARIO‘S LARGEST SELECTION OF AFFORDABLE POOL TABLES 91 Trillium Dr. Kitchener â€" 748â€"5660 Mondayâ€"Friday, Noonâ€"6; Saturday 10â€"5 ine Ontimate aqlb/zau[ 14 Regina St. N. (Watetloo, Ontario 746â€"3711 eivescpucidtoadlegs except special orders when you buy 3 or more items. V /0 OrF ‘094 CALENDARS at both locations 100 King St. South Opposite Waterloo Square Open 9 to 9 Mon. â€" Fri. Saturdays till 6 p.m. Sundays 12 till 5 p.m. Words Worth Books 884â€"BOOK (2665) Sat. Jan. 8 to Sat. Jan. 15 ONLY If you miss it, you‘ll have to wait ‘til 1995 for discounts like these. 20¢% Words Worth Books V /0 OFF ALL BOOKS®* 30% Onceâ€"aâ€"Year SALE