All Sorts

Magic Hands

"...it takes all sorts of creatures to make a world."

Badger (The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham)


Tomasito, 2009


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Better Back

Me Patiently Waiting. (Tanya Photo)

Hello, all you faithful Ahimsaland People!

I am VERY glad to report that my back is MUCH better!

I am now STANDING at the computer which Tanya arranged on an enhanced table so I don't need to sit--since sitting still hurts--and I have learned a LOT about BACK pain!

There is nothing like serious pain to really grab your attention!

Would you like to get a recommendation for a good program for back pain relief?

I thought so.

The book is Banish Back Pain the Pilates Way (By Anna Selby) and it is excellent.

Real good back pain is a terrific motivator!

Man, I'm BREATHING DEEPLY, I'm working on my "Girdle of Strength" muscles, I'm relaxing out of any stress and all like that! (LOVE that yogic CORPSE POSE!)

Another thing I've noticed is that a good, easy bowel movement is better than a feast! (A cup of hot prune juice does it for me!)

And NO DOCTORS!

Ahimsaland Forever!

Tomasito 2009


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Bad Back

Dear readers:

Shortly after posting my last blog on this site I was felled by very painful spasms in my back and have not been able to walk or even stand--so my work on the blogs I maintain came to a complete halt.

Even crawling around our apartment was almost impossible and without Tanya's help I would have been in serious trouble.

I am presently on my feet standing at the computer pecking the keyboard with my forefingers.

I miss communicating with you and hope to return to my usual schedule very soon.

Other than the back problem I feel just fine and am making good progress with the back (Tanya supplied me with four good books on restoring back strength and I am using the good ideas from them.)

Up and about soon!

Tomasito

Thanks for checking the site.

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Santa Fe

Tile Mural, Santa Fe Depot, San Diego, CA. (Tomasito photo)

Gentle Reminder: Santa Fe is more than a railroad--more than the old capital town of New Mexico--it is the Spanish for Holy Faith.

Something to do with faith--not faith of our fathers, nor of our grandfathers--but of people from Spain and Mexico a long, long time ago.

These towns--these railroads--were built and named by people of faith.

Even today--though the Age of Faith is long gone--people of faith still maintain them.

Because deep down, faith goes beyond organized religiosity of all stripes--to the very heart of humanity--that is, of you and me.

Brothers and Sisters, in these dark days: Keep the Faith.

Tomasito

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Urban Garden

City Garden. (Tomasito photo)

We have been in the City of San Diego twice in the last two weeks.

The climate there is so mellow that people love it--millions of people love it--and hundreds more every day--thousands more every year!

Even with this rapid development of the city--the frantic haste of the freeways and the temporary nature of most of the buildings--some lingering thought has been given to the original natural beauty of the place--and unexpected pretty touches like the above tiny fenced area in front of a warehouse become gardens to delight the eye and lift the spirit.

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Wilderness Garden

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Tanya in the Wilderness Garden

About a half-hour drive to the Northeast of Escondido is another good San Diego County Park: Wilderness Garden.

It is close to the two huge casinos on Indian Reservation land but light-years from that kind of Las Vegasy glitter in its essence.

State Highway 76 passes by high above the deep valley which contains the park so the silence of the wilderness is almost unbroken. We could have been walking in the California of the rancho days a hundred years ago.

We visited on a week-day on Tanya's day off from her new job. It is a very good place to relax and feel at peace. There are the usual good county park picnic tables and rest room facilities and since it was a week-day we were almost the only humans there to enjoy it.

Oh yes--if you get a chance to go there be sure to wear long pants! I know to wear them in the desert--I was born in the New Mexico desert after all--but I was careless, wore shorts, and the horseflies made a picnic on my bare legs which are still itchy!

Well, that's nature too.

Tomasito, 2009


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Turning Back

San Diego, California Used Car Lot. (Tomasito photo, 2009)
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Turning Back

We planet eaters are rather proud of the way we have whipped nature--we are conquerors and and are in the habit of looking to the future for more and for better.

However the world we have plundered so mercilessly to suit our real and imagined needs is wearing out.

The trending is toward disaster for no one in particular but for all of us--and finding our way back to the world of the natural will perhaps not be easy because we have no map and we are not in the habit of looking back.

Tomasito


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