its about time

Hmmm, interesting thought as I wrote that header for this blog. I meant that it is about time that I got in gear and wrote another blog. Then again it is about time as I have just had a birthday too, ha ha ha.

Hello everyone, Hope that all of you are having a really awesome time where ever you may be.

Well, the lead up to my birthday was tremendous. I was so excited as it was to be a big one. One of those decade things. Can any of you that really have known me for a while imagine me, my beingness being 60. What an awesome number. So many years and years of living. All the places that I have been, the massages that I have done, the friends that I have met. When I had my last major accident near Atlanta and had the broken leg, if anyone would have said that I was to move to Australia I probably would have died laughing.

For this birthday I took the day off of work (-165.60), went to the Buddhist Monastery, with two friends, at Serpentine to give Dana (food and other offerings) to the monks (aprox 200). Enroute to the Monastery, I received a phone call and a very dear friend Siobhan called and sang me happy birthday WOW. I had been stockpiling food and things to take for about a month. I baked 6 pumpkin pies ($30) for my birthday. Two for work, Two for the monastery, One for my singing class, 1/2 made it to my good friend and incredible support person Gavin. I ate the other half ha ha ha. I didn't stay to hear happy birthday sung to me as I needed to get to work. Later that day I sent off the application for my divorce from Jenny ($405). Then that evening went to see the Cirque Du Soleil Veraki ($106.95) Again two friends opted to go to the Cirque with me. Two of us were sitting about 10 rows back right in the middle of the stage with an aisle leading up to us. The other had bought tickets later and was one row back and to the left. It was like the most perfect position for all of us for the whole show. it was an expensive day and well worth it. I mean how many times does anyone turn 60 in a life time? ha ha ha.

I had had other hopes and goals that just didn't manifest so this was the best that I could do. My sister turns 60 next year. . . . hmmmm maybe a visit is in order. Don't hold your breathe though.

An assessment is due. My weight on my birthday was 72 kilos. I am still standing the height that I was when I finally stopped growing at mid 20's of 6'5" (194.5 I think). I ride my bike on its trainer stand every morning for 30 minutes and stretch for another 30. I can bend at the waist and put my fists on the floor between my feet. I can still twist around and put my big toe of either foot against my forehead. That has slipped a bit as I used to able to chew on my toes till I was in my late forties.

In my run up to being 60 I have had a fair few accidents. I had a horse when i was a child. Purchased when I was 6 and he was 6. I lost count of being thrown off of him after 30 times. That is a lot of bruising. And that doesn't count the times that I almost got thrown or stomped or kicked, or bitten. I can see my sister reading this and smiling remembering old Charlie. She probably got tossed a few times too. He was a mean old fiesty fart, but did live to being 30 years old. Then there have been a few bicycle crashes. And the trees that fell on me when i was about 35, and the car that hit me in '97, and probably a few other incidents best forgotten, ohhh like falling out of the hay mow at a friends home, and off the top of the hay wagon, and out of a few trees, and a few punchups. Well, heck life is meant to be lived right? However, they don't tell the young ones that all those aches and pains come home to roost 30 - 40 -50 years later, OUCH.

So, yes as I have turned 60 there are a few aches and pains. Now a big part of the recipent list of this blog are my students of Spiritually Guided Healing. Well, guys and gals let me tell you. 1) the healing that you all sent when I got that lung crud this past winter was almost unbelievable even to me. I litterally could feel my bodies cells and energy changing minute by minute as all of you came on line to help out. I went from unable to move to thinking I could run a marathon in about 4 hours. Thank You Thank You Thank You.

As most of you know the last "accident" was my falling off the bicycle and breaking two fingers of my right hand. Well that is still a problem. I am typing this with both hands so that is a vast improvment. I work using my hands and there is some dexterity. However, when I wake in the morning my hand is a stiff claw. As I am riding my trainer I work it vigorously and get it all going for the day. An hour later when I move my hand it feels like every joint is filled with acid crystals. I am getting used to it. I seldome need pain medicine for it.

However, when at work I need my hand much more vigorously then simple typing. I have this **&^&%^%$$# control for the Over head Crane that take much button pressing to keep working. Seems that the wet environment is not conducive to a happy control. Sometimes I have to press the on switch 5-10 times then the "both" control switch 5-10 times then one of the single switches 5-10 times before checking to see if the thing will raise. If it does that is great. it usually doesn't and I have to go through the whole process again, and again, and again, and again and well you get the point. Sometimes I do this 10-15 times before it will work. Then it is good for one command and I have to do the whole thing again. This absolutely KILLS my hand. For this I take pain medication, and Salmon Oil, and Full Motion (GNLD), and Green Lip Mussle Extract, and and and it is quite the mouth full. And I get healing, and massages. It is slow to heal.

OK, finally 2) I have already mentioned that lifes falls and pit falls accumulate. Yeah that they do. My sister mailed me the PERFECT birthday card. Shows a dorky kid in front of a scary looking house. He says, "Getting older is like living in a haunted house." Before I opened it I already had an answer, "yeah, you never know what or where some weird unexplained pain is going to jump out of your body at you" Inside it said, "lots of noises and smells you just can't explain." Noises, yep got those. Well, I can't smell so don't know about them yet. no one is complaining, hmm there isn't anyone around to complain either ha ha ha

So, what I have unwillingly accepted is that at any awakening prior to starting the day, there is no guarantee of the amount of energy that I will actually have at the time that it is needed. And/or what amount of pain medicine I will need to take to accomplish any event that I still choose to do. Believe me, if you take a couple of Panadeine 15 prior to a bike ride you (or I) will fly, YEHAH. That and cup of coffee, wow I am young again, he he he. Then it take me a couple of days recovery. That is the pisser the recovery time. I can still keep up with the young ones at work, but, they are ready to do it all again the next day. me, I want a day off ha ha ha.

Also, I no longer help people move. I show up after the move with the meal. That is just as much appreciated believe me. I don't do hard labour either. I don't work fast, I work steady. I walk slower and enjoy the trip more. though I can move fast if I need too, however I feel stiff when I have to run. that was what bicycles were invented for.

Well, enough of my stuff. Hope to hear from some of you. I always love your letters and feedback. Some of you statesideres that get this email that know "the ol' man" remind him that he is younger than me, he he.

Come to think of it, the ol' man ought to write a book. This guy was by his own words to me many years ago, smoking 3-4 packs of cigaretts a day and a couch potatoe. The movie, "Breaking Away" comes out, he loves it, get a bicycle and wins the nationals like a year later. Proceeds to kick ass all up and down the East Coast of the states for YEARS. I always loved it when he raced as it was always a good show. Go David GO!!!!

Peace to all of you

gene

may you all be well and happy