**From & To Satish **( New Pictures Pl see pg 163) - Page 38

Health Tip of the Day.


1. To remove a bandage painlessly, saturate the bandage with vodka. The stuff dissolves adhesive.

2. To clean the caulking around bathtubs and showers, fill a trigger-spray bottle with vodka, spray the caulking, let set five minutes and wash clean. The alcohol in the vodka kills mould and mildew.

3. To clean your eyeglasses,simply wipe the lenses with a soft, clean cloth dampened with vodka. The alcohol in the vodka cleans the glass and kills germs.

4. Prolong the life of razors by filling a cup with vodka and letting your safety razor blade soak in the alcohol after shaving. The vodka disinfects the blade and prevents rusting.

5. Spray vodka on wine stains, scrub with a brush, and then blot dry.

6. Using a cotton ball, apply vodka to your face as an astringent to cleanse the skin and tighten pores.

7. Add a jigger of vodka to a 12-ounce bottle of shampoo. The alcohol cleanses the scalp, removes toxins from hair, and stimulates the growth of healthy hair.

8. Fill a sixteen-ounce trigger-spray bottle with vodka and spray bees or wasps to kill them.

9 Pour one-half cup vodka and one-half cup water into a Ziploc freezer bag and freeze for a slushy, refreshing ice pack for aches, pain or black eyes.

10. Fill a clean, used mayonnaise jar with freshly packed lavender flowers, fill the jar with vodka, seal the lid tightly and set in the sun for three days. Strain liquid through a coffee filter, then apply the tincture to aches and pains.

11. To relieve a fever, use a washcloth to rub vodka on your chest and back as a liniment.

12. To cure foot odour, wash your feet with vodka.

13 Vodka will disinfect and alleviate a jellyfish sting.

14. Pour vodka over an area affected with poison ivy to remove the urushiol oil from your skin.

15. Swish a shot of vodka over an aching tooth. Allow your gums to absorb some of the alcohol to numb the pain.

Thanks, Satish! Now I am going to surprise my husband by asking for a bottle of vodka! If he has a heart attack, can I send you the bill>?

elijay,

i am an apple

I am a bright green apple.

burdens of life

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

quote from the movie kungfu panda

the web of life is spun and is spinning in mysterious ways.the DNA of a virus,bacteria,plant,reptile,insect and a mammal are so similar and differ in only miniscule ways yet life turns and churns them out in a million different forms.sometimes stuck in a trance i stare into space to grasp the meaning of this complex web of life and who is spinning it.sometimes a strand of the web unravels and i feel as i grasp it that i will finally understand the journey of life and its ultimate meaning.sadly i fall,fail but each letdown and setback only fires me up to go forth on my own private trip into life.why,why not just live,why not just exist and go with the flow.true but then the trip is a private one and one most wouldn't understand.

Herein lies the answer for an apple wants to be a banana and a banana wants to be an apple.striving to achieve and to beat the vagaries of a mundane and cliched life seems to be answer.the strife multiplies when one questions the struggle of an apple wanting to be a banana and vice versa.quick to the draw and jumping the line should not be the norms of judgement here for ultimately an apple wants to be a banana and vice versa for the simple reason that it wants to be part of the other or simply blend in.why you might ask but such is the complex web of life.but foremost answer that springs to my mind is that it fulfills some inadequacies that might stem from an inferior mind or upbringing.who is to tell what is right and what is wrong.what is perfect and who is perfect to be judge and jury.

But trying to better oneself or imbibe the qualities of a peer or better person is not wrong,but again who is peer and who is better.i leave it to you all .be well.

love satish

i like the deep thoughts, satish....

but at the end of it, I think it's all about love. Human life...even in it's final moments....comes down to the simple equation of having loved and being loved. (In other words, to accept and to be accepted). Problem arises because of the inhumane expectations...of being loved (or accepted) in return....

hi spain,


i am sorry to dissapoint you but sometimes love is not enough,being accepted is not enough and the very fact of existing is not enough.don't judge people or lfe so harshly for life is dificult.don't we come across people who have everything but still complain that they lack something.like a child whose connection is cut when it comes out of its mother's womb there seems to be a strange but universl feeling among people today that they seem to have lost something an are yearning for it.could it be the road to awareness of some hidden meaning pf life,could it be the beginning of spirituality and a journey towards god.

We are living in strange times when everybody is on a headlong rush towards the edge of some dark canyon.todays world cannot be compared to yesteryears for some strange affliction seems to have taken hold of humans.i don't have words nor truly understand the meaning of it all but i feel it in my heart.so i have slowed my clock of life and i am now enjoying every moment of it alone or in company.

i think true happiness does not come from other people but from one's own self.looking more inward and gauging our thoughts will stop impulsive thoughts,desires and like you said inhumane expectations...of being loved (or accepted) in return.....be well.

satish

I think the key word here is "expectations". Our disappointments and frustrations arise from our expectations - we expect our children to act in a certain way, when they don't, we are disappointed. We expect our partner to say something, when he or she doesn't remember the date or event, we are crushed. We expect to shine in some exam, when we don't, we are depressed. When we expect something, disappointment is always certain, because what is attained is bound to be less than what was expected. However, if we take to heart the saying in the Gita, Karmanye vaa adhikaaraste ...", and do what we have to do without getting into the habit of expecting the results, we are less likely to be disappointed, and this in turn will give us greater contentment. I know many of my own disappointments in life have arisen from this, and I try to tell myself to not expect anything, but it is hard. I think this is where our wise elders came up with the term "detached attachment". I am trying to put it into practice.