My "Keep Nepal Free blog"

Link: John Narayan Times

The above was in my inbox and sometimes we all need a little pat on our backs. I refer to my Keep Nepal Free blog as my political statement. I created this blog over a year ago at a time period when I was getting completely fed up with American politics. Nepal is a very poor Kingdom with huge neighbors such as China and India and the birthplace of the Hindu prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, i.e., the original Buddha (563-483 B.C.). However, Nepal is primarily Hindu. Nepal infrequently hits the top lines of the international news scene, however, there is news constantly pouring out of Nepal. The Maoists are actively attempting to violently take over Nepal and essentially lay siege on the villages and countryside. If that isn't bad enough the internal government wherein there is a King lays in total chaos. Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world, yet did send relief money for Katrina. Visit my blog and its archive if you want to educate yourself on the happenings in Nepal.

This morning the temperature is in the 40's and there is a light rain .. this should convince the migratory birds to move south if they haven't already. If I was a bird, I would definitely prefer to be a migratory one, but given my luck I'd probably end up being a water fowl and shot out of the sky by some great white hunter and their shotgun.

My rat terrier Yoshi has the right idea this morning, she is once again tunneled into the comforter on the couch and I'm sitting here with my cup of coffee and a cold nose ... turned on my handy-dandy Fisher-Price heater to take the chill out of the room this morning. That little heater is incredible. Last winter during a below zero cold spell when my furnace quit working that little guy kept my place at a temperature that wasn't too bad. It appears to be made for environments with children and very safe ... good 'ol Fisher-Price makes more than toys. That's my commercial for the morning.

I have to chuckle at myself. In an attempt to organize my host of websites, I have established quite a few email accounts on both Yahoo and Google (Gmail) and that does take into consideration my email account on AOL and my Earthlink email. This organization attempt definitely backfired and now I have way too many email accounts to keep track of. My primary email is bunik@yahoo.com but it is lindabunik@gmail.com that is used for my Keep Nepal Free blog wherein just by luck I checked this email account this morning to find the above email that I have posted from a journalist from Nepal.

This miraculous universe works in weird ways. I woke up this morning and after my prayer of sending "peace and prosperity to all of creation" I always await with great fascination to see what thoughts will be arriving to join me for my first cup of coffee. After attending to the thoughts about how I needed to get some warm socks and turn on the space heater to prevent frost bite, "fall housecleaning" thoughts came dancing in. My response to perceiving that I was thinking about cleaning before I finished my first cup of coffee made me actually chuckle at myself. That is why once I got on the internet I decided to check out my multiplicity of email addresses and clean them out of spam, etc., and why I found the above email complimenting me. Given my tendency to ignore my vast number of email accounts, that email could have been sitting there for over a week unread.

The universe knew I needed to feel some personal validation given the past week wherein I've needed to stop the bleeding resulting from a family of origin who regards my person as subhuman. I went to my doctor's appointment yesterday and the neurologist completely surprised me by asking if "my family was still using me as their punching bag". I essentially told him that I am taking up boxing and am learning some defensive and offensive moves. You can't change others, only yourself.

It is my very firm spiritual belief that we chose the family that will provide us the vehicle for our earthly experience in flesh. Birth and death being transformations belonging to the physical form, not our eternal "spiritual form". It is also taught that children so often function to "teach their parents lessons of love" and so frequently "pain is the teacher and love is the lesson". And then to steal Clarissa Pinkola Estes's quote regarding how one can frequently feel as if the stork delivered you to the wrong house.