Thinking of You once more

From Gary a penpal and a close friend.
"From his last stop before Freedom
he wishes me Happy Birthday"

Even the rich have to go through a batch of less luck at any time in their lives. I was fortunate to go through my lesser time after I reached half century... and well kept.

One day you think you are the owner of the world, I had huge plans for the next 3-5 years. Work-wise I had positioned myself at a top level where I could choose at pleasure. I simply needed the time to complete some of my dreams but overnight I went unwell.

It happened at a board meeting, I came out not knowing who I was. I took a long time to bring my body to respond to 45% normality, and since them I have been trying to heal back to normality, I still need to go about 5% and I will be PERFECT as usual.

During the convalescing period I had to work my mind and my spirit, well I tell you that my spirit needed more attention than my body. I had to start finding my inner-child and when I found it, I had to wake up quickly as my inner-child loved shopping and it loved to be in charge of the credit card too… but as I did not want to upset it and run away I went along… those were the days until I learned I was the parent and my inner-child had to do as I instructed.

I came across the right people, at the right time and places and one lent me a book by Jerry Jampolsky “change your mind change your life" (http://www.jerryjampolskyanddianecirincione.com/)

For a while I followed the New Age crystal healing, herbs, aromatherapy and the many other pleasant and relaxing therapies. I loved being around spiritual people, I felt good but during the overnight period I lost all my peaceful environment and I was desperate to find it…

Jerry in his book talked about love… loving people… aaaaah whaaaat… he had to be crazy, but I kept reading the book as I had nothing else to do… at a point he mentioned to offer love to prisoners. But Jerry was not the only author I read that mentioned the same practice, Wayne Dyer brings it out in few of his books (I read most of his books – I love that man)… so prisoners… hmmm - visiting… hmmm.. are they kidding? The idea I grew up about someone in prison was “stay away from prisoners, bad people, they will kill you..” but that is not the reality, as now I know there are many in prisons for crimes committed by others. Prisoners are just people who loose their freedom to move around.

FEAR, Mr Fear was ruling my life and visiting a prisoner was overruled, ok it had to be another way and the road was shown to me. I found Foreign Prisoners run by Kate Danes (www.foreignprisoners.com/ ), Kate still has a long list of prisoners looking for penpals and that is how I started. I also have prisoners from poor countries hoping for help from foreign penpals and donors at Burmese Prisoners Abroad (burmesepa.blogspot.com) (feel free to visit the blog please).

I picked one name from Kate's list, he is from Holland, Frank was in Japan for trafficking and given 14 years at the age of 26 I think… it was a tip toeing experience for me, I had not idea what was going to happen after I wrote a postcard. He couldn't kill me through a letter but the fear was there. Frank is the friendliest happy guy, he speaks perfect English and his world knowledge is very advanced. He knows more about Australian history than I do, well that is because the Vikings came here hehehe.

Frank introduced me to Gary from UK also doing trafficking experience in Japan. They were separated and sent to different prisons. Both of them are now at home completing their sentence times.

Meanwhile the friendship has grown stronger. Writing to prisoners needs a bit of skill and I had none by then. It is very emotional to read their living experiences as it is wanting to send some comforting words to lift their spirits, but as Jerry and Wayne said, when we send love we receive love and love guided me. I am talking about UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.

Frank is a spiritual man while Gary is more the easy going relaxed musician and both were influential in my personal and spiritual healing.

With Gary now in UK, everything is going as planned, because from this end I had to help him continue dreaming and in a way that monthly letter was some sort of a tender pillow.

For me it became a distant-close relationship at the end, Gary has approximately 5 months to complete his time and go on parole, today I received my first Birthday Card and is coming from Gary.

He is excited that he is so close to freedom and he has gone into open prison, he will be allowed to go abroad on holidays whilst on parole and he is looking forward that time. That was a beautiful gift I received as well as he is still holding to his dreams…

Will I ever meet them? Who knows, maybe only if we want to meet then the opportunity might present itself, then it would be nice to sit and enjoy the friendship the 3 of us have built under very restricted circumstances.

Meanwhile geography has become a pigment of our imagination we are in contact part of our days or overnight.

I thank you Gary for remembering me on my Special Day.

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Red Bull

Been to the grand prix lately? I attended the formula1 in 1992, the last race held in Adelaide, my first time in the city, it was a glorious time.

Being my first time to a car racing event I expected action flashing moving cars with the continuously boom rooom rooom. At times it was boring as most of the cars went in group and it took long minutes before they made the full circle to be able to see them again, at other times it was breath taken adrenaline pumping with each turn and take over they offered us, amazing experience.

I was fascinated by Ayrton Senna, his driving was so neat whenever he approached the sharp corners his driving was so smooth making the rounds nice and clean, it felt like he was caressing his girl, so gentle. Nigel Mansell was in his best but his curves were very cringing. Even though being my first experience I tried to enjoy it as much as possible. And it went for 3 days but I endured the other two days shopping in Adelaide.

Sadly Ayrton left the dearly beloved few years back and Nigel retired. Now I will be focusing on the current crews… I hope you enjoy the speeding this year.

Now Moe, why do you think I like Red Bull?

After 1992 I followed the races every now and then, in the past 9 years I have been away from the TV but today my eye caught Mark Webber. I hope Mark makes a nice come back on 29th, all the best to him.

RED BULL time now… no wonder some gals in SP love red bull drinks, the high adrenaline they get from their sips I wonder who are they looking at…? Tuh tuh tuh naughty naughty.

Photo: tall dark and handsome; MarkWebber and SebastianVettel.

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Taliban took another boy from us

The casket of Australian Corp. Mathew Hopkins arrived this week and right after the news Sergeant Brett Till, 21yso was killed in Afghanistan, our second within a week, so far we have 10 soldiers killed within the past year and half. What are we doing there? What sort of business have we got there?

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Expectations

Being a simple person, enjoying; the simple, raw, beautiful things in life it means I am a rebellious kind of person, I expect a lot of the good stuff…

If I buy a salad sandwich I expect fresh salad in it opposite to the tinned stuff.

If I order steak with mushroom sauce, I expect lots of mushrooms in the sauce, contrary to the lucky find in the watery fluid.

If I go on a date I expect to be treated like a queen and if the vibes are there I expect the best upgrade to a five stars comfort, submissive to el-cheapo bushes yuk, nonono oouch take care of my back will you? I’m an acrobat in training…

I prefer to know what I get surprises are not my theme at all.

I also expect a lot from the people I surround myself with and when they decide to surprise me I simply take a cold shower and move as far as possible.

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Expectations

Being a simple person, enjoying; the simple, raw, beautiful things in life it means I am a rebellious kind of person, I expect a lot of the good stuff…

If I buy a salad sandwich I expect fresh salad in it opposite to the tinned stuff.

If I order steak with mushroom sauce, I expect lots of mushrooms in the sauce, contrary to the lucky find in the watery fluid.

If I go on a date I expect to be treated like a queen and if the vibes are there I expect the best upgrade to a five stars comfort, submissive to el-cheapo bushes yuk, nonono oouch take care of my back will you? I’m an acrobat in training…

I prefer to know what I get surprises are not my theme at all.

I also expect a lot from the people I surround myself with and when they decide to surprise me I simply take a cold shower and move as far as possible.

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Rescue packages can save Australia

Do we want to be rescued?

Right, I still enjoy eating outside to make sure I am contributing to the rescue of our economy…
although I am going out within moderation I still enjoy that sweet service I receive every time I hand out a $20-$50 bill… lovely time.

If only people would be able to relax their minds and think in best ways to go through the recession, panic is the worst enemy during these times.
My best wishes to all affected.

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Stuck with an old 57 years old woman

The other day I was told I am an old woman... and it hurt badly... because I am a tomboy and the teller was telling huge figs too because...

Scientists now believe mental abilities decline from age 27

that will teach the teller as his girlfriend is an OLD 29 years old, ooooh she is too tired of life too..

OLD age, scientists now believe, starts when you hit that giddy age of ... 27.

Yes, many well-known effects of ageing may start decades before our twilight years when old age is blamed for misplaced keys and sunglasses, when one forgets a name or an appopintment.

The new research, reports The Mail on Sunday newspaper in the UK, shows that our mental abilities begin to decline from the age of 27 after reaching a peak at 22.

The researchers studied 2,000 men and women aged 18 to 60 over seven years. The people involved, mostly in good health and well-educated, had to solve visual puzzles, recall words and story details and spot patterns in letters and symbols.

Similar tests are often used to diagnose mental disabilities and diseases, such as Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia.

The research at the University of Virginia, reported in the academic journal Neurobiology Of Aging, found that in nine out of 12 tests the average age at which the top performance was achieved was 22.

The first age at which performance was significantly lower than the peak scores was 27 – for three tests of reasoning, speed of thought and spatial visualisation. Memory was shown to decline from the average age of 37. In the other tests, poorer results were shown by the age of 42. (God blesses my senior memory hehehe)

Professor Timothy Salthouse said the results suggested that therapies designed to prevent or reverse age-related conditions may need to start earlier, long before people become pensioners.

Now who do we know who is 27? There's Beyonce Knowles, Adriana Lima, Serena Williams and Guy Sebastian to name but four, who is 29? Thyn Pa Nwe, John Moe is a decrepit at 36, and their troop.... oh let's concentrate on the young ones shall we...

The Daily Telegraph
March 16, 2009 12:00am

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