December 2nd - cleaning and thinking
Today started off like many days recently. I get up, kiss Mimu goodbye for the day, tell him to relax because whether he's flipping out or not, he's gonna get to work when he gets to work. Stressing doesn't make you go any faster.
Then I go back to sleep and wake up way later than I planned, but I still managed to hang my bedding outside to dry and dust off (Japan is very humid and dusty so most people hang their bedding outside, especially people who have futons like we do). This is the general idea, and this is what happens if you're not careful on a windy day. Although it's never happened to me, I feel that this photograph portrays the emotional energy very well.
I spent a lot of time on Facebook, trying to figure out these game programs I'm in. I also did the laundry, cleaned the whole house, and took a nice shower. Since I don't have to shampoo my hair anymore, I don't always take a full shower. I just wash what needs to be washed. I don't have oily skin so I don't have any problem with that. But it felt really refreshing and nice. Showers are so therapeutic.
Just when I got out of the shower, there was a medium-sized ugly black cockroach on the wall right next to me to greet me. It didn't look like it was in any hurry, so I finished drying off and killed that sucked with the Cockroach Jet spray. Drops of the stuff got in my cup of coffee and the oily toxic mist was all over the floor and wall. This stuff works very well but it's very toxic and messy. So I had to clean that up, and make another cup.
I burnt some incense and white sage (sometimes it comes like this) to further cleanse the energy in the house, and I feel really focused and clean and great. What a nice day!
I also watched the news and found this article about a very wise man who's putting one man's trash to a very good use and helping out people who get stuck with the short end of the stick. Here's a link to his homepage, it's very inspiring. http://www.cleanhouston.org/heros/phillips.htm
This is a very intuitive, helpful way of "going green" I think. I was talking to skyggeravn the other day about the idea of "going green". In Japan, it means using less and less electricity, gas, and water, and trying to use more natural cleaning products and recycling. In the US, it's about ecological cars, cleaning products, toilet paper, and MAYBE recycling and being more energy efficient. But both of us, incidentally, had been thinking about that a lot recently, and we're not so convinced that this "green" movement is really doing any good, nor that pollution and energy wasting is the main cause of global warming and dehabitization or whatever it is.
What we both realized was that more than anything else, we're cutting down massive amounts of trees which not only give us fresh oxygen but also filter out the toxins in the air and the water, and put not just oxygen but moisture back into the universe. There is a lot more I could say about how our trees our the lungs of our planet, and how our two species are very intimately interwoven in our basic needs to survive, and how little is being done to preserve them or even look at our options. Many people argue that people plant many trees in their place, but those people seem to have forgotten that it would take 100 years or so for that tree to get to the same size and health to actually be considered an equal replacement. If we're willing to wait a thousand years, sure go ahead and cut down the rainforests and replace it with saplings. People think that the trees are being cut down in mass quantities for paper and wood production. Yes, that's a part of it. But the main purpose is to clear land for cattle raising. Yes, all of these trees, who's surface area for recycling carbon dioxide, including the root system which filters ground water for every living thing on the planet, which is about an acre just for each tree, is being replaced by one main plant who's surface area is about the side of the actual space it takes up - GRASS. For one sole purpose - to feed cattle. So that only about 1/4th of the 6 billion people in the world can eat beef, and so that the poor inhabitants of the Amazon basin can make a quick buck.
All together now: GRRRRRRRRRAFLJ$%8SG7FSDF6SDG523!!!
Anyway, please look into the book The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight" by Thom Hartmann. Thank you.
Live Consciously
Then I go back to sleep and wake up way later than I planned, but I still managed to hang my bedding outside to dry and dust off (Japan is very humid and dusty so most people hang their bedding outside, especially people who have futons like we do). This is the general idea, and this is what happens if you're not careful on a windy day. Although it's never happened to me, I feel that this photograph portrays the emotional energy very well.
I spent a lot of time on Facebook, trying to figure out these game programs I'm in. I also did the laundry, cleaned the whole house, and took a nice shower. Since I don't have to shampoo my hair anymore, I don't always take a full shower. I just wash what needs to be washed. I don't have oily skin so I don't have any problem with that. But it felt really refreshing and nice. Showers are so therapeutic.
Just when I got out of the shower, there was a medium-sized ugly black cockroach on the wall right next to me to greet me. It didn't look like it was in any hurry, so I finished drying off and killed that sucked with the Cockroach Jet spray. Drops of the stuff got in my cup of coffee and the oily toxic mist was all over the floor and wall. This stuff works very well but it's very toxic and messy. So I had to clean that up, and make another cup.
I burnt some incense and white sage (sometimes it comes like this) to further cleanse the energy in the house, and I feel really focused and clean and great. What a nice day!
I also watched the news and found this article about a very wise man who's putting one man's trash to a very good use and helping out people who get stuck with the short end of the stick. Here's a link to his homepage, it's very inspiring. http://www.cleanhouston.org/heros/phillips.htm
This is a very intuitive, helpful way of "going green" I think. I was talking to skyggeravn the other day about the idea of "going green". In Japan, it means using less and less electricity, gas, and water, and trying to use more natural cleaning products and recycling. In the US, it's about ecological cars, cleaning products, toilet paper, and MAYBE recycling and being more energy efficient. But both of us, incidentally, had been thinking about that a lot recently, and we're not so convinced that this "green" movement is really doing any good, nor that pollution and energy wasting is the main cause of global warming and dehabitization or whatever it is.
What we both realized was that more than anything else, we're cutting down massive amounts of trees which not only give us fresh oxygen but also filter out the toxins in the air and the water, and put not just oxygen but moisture back into the universe. There is a lot more I could say about how our trees our the lungs of our planet, and how our two species are very intimately interwoven in our basic needs to survive, and how little is being done to preserve them or even look at our options. Many people argue that people plant many trees in their place, but those people seem to have forgotten that it would take 100 years or so for that tree to get to the same size and health to actually be considered an equal replacement. If we're willing to wait a thousand years, sure go ahead and cut down the rainforests and replace it with saplings. People think that the trees are being cut down in mass quantities for paper and wood production. Yes, that's a part of it. But the main purpose is to clear land for cattle raising. Yes, all of these trees, who's surface area for recycling carbon dioxide, including the root system which filters ground water for every living thing on the planet, which is about an acre just for each tree, is being replaced by one main plant who's surface area is about the side of the actual space it takes up - GRASS. For one sole purpose - to feed cattle. So that only about 1/4th of the 6 billion people in the world can eat beef, and so that the poor inhabitants of the Amazon basin can make a quick buck.
All together now: GRRRRRRRRRAFLJ$%8SG7FSDF6SDG523!!!
Anyway, please look into the book The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight" by Thom Hartmann. Thank you.
Live Consciously