Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proper Vastu and the moving experience
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : By gum, Richard, you have hit the nail on the head! Forget Heartland Co-op! What FF needs is a Dairy Queen! Of course we already have The Sweet Spot and another ice cream place whose name I don't remember, and one can get organic ice cream at Everybody's. Those Radiance Dairy cows listen to Gandharva Veda music! This interview with the owner of Radiance Dairy Farm is interesting. He doesn't mention the useof Gandharva Veda music but he talks about earth worms and trees. I love his approach to farming. The small farmer has the ability to truly nurture the land.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proper Vastu and the moving experience
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : By gum, Richard, you have hit the nail on the head! Forget Heartland Co-op! What FF needs is a Dairy Queen! Of course we already have The Sweet Spot and another ice cream place whose name I don't remember, and one can get organic ice cream at Everybody's. Those Radiance Dairy cows listen to Gandharva Veda music! This interview with the owner of Radiance Dairy Farm is interesting. He doesn't mention the use of Gandharva Veda music but he talks about earth worms and trees. I love his approach to farming. The small farmer has the ability to truly nurture the land. Oops, forgot the link: http://www.iatp.org/files/An_Interview_with_Francis_Thicke_of_Radiance_D.htm http://www.iatp.org/files/An_Interview_with_Francis_Thicke_of_Radiance_D.htm
[FairfieldLife] Re: Proper Vastu and the moving experience
Evidently it is felt that bad orientation could be dangerous. Housing prices in the USA now are fluctuating widely based on entry orientation. Apparently realtors in NYC of necessity have to be facile in both vastu and Feng Shui to close on real estate deals. Well, they clearly are behind the times [in the Netherlands] and evidently slow to adopt more scientific and modern ways. But, you did not even Feng Shui the place? -Buck turquoiseb writes: I can confirm that the housing in this town -- much of which dates back several centuries and is not about to concern itself with such trivia as which direction its main entrance faces -- does not give a shit about Vastu. Nor should anyone who wishes to ever be considered sane. My suggestion if that you wish to become rectified, you should visit your proctologist. It will cost less than its TMO counterpart, and will be less invasive. :-) Subject: [FairfieldLife] Vastu and the moving experience Om. Dear Turqb; Did you get the new place, rectified? You know, Spiritually fixed. Does it have an East entry or something less auspicious? Does Rental and housing price in the Netherlands fluctuate according to the direction of the home entry? -Buck turquoiseb writes: Some people hate moving. Packing up their belongings and moving to a new house is a major trauma event in their lives. Me, having done it so often, I kinda look upon it as a blessing. But then I've moved almost fifty times in my life, so I'm kinda used to it. For me, it provides not a trauma, but an *opportunity*. You get to go through your STUFF, and figure out how much of it deserves to become STUFF in your new house. It's a major opportunity for STUFF maintenance. Before the MGC starts rejoicing and saying, Great -- he's finally been thrown out of the Netherlands and has to move somewhere else, this particular move is only across Leiden, to a new house here. The owners of the house we currently rent are ending their tenure as diplomats in China and want to come back, so we've found another, nicer house about a kilometer away, still within the Leiden Centrum. And the new place is definitely nicer -- it's got a garden, a solarium in which to have outside dinners even on rainy days, and more usable space. We'll be happier there. But first comes the packing. And yes, that's sometimes a bitch, but I'm looking at it this time as an opportunity to divest myself of STUFF that has outlived its usefulness. My DVD collection, for example. I kept a few true collector's items, but either gave away or sold the rest of them. Movies are just too *available* online these days for me to have the need to carry around a bunch of boxes of DVDs. I just got back from biking a huge load of old, dead computers and electronics to the Recycle Center as well. After all, I still had two old computers of my own and three that used to belong to IBM but died on me, so they didn't want them back. I lugged them to the current place during our last move, just in case they changed their minds, but there is no need to do so again. So I wiped the hard disks (the IBM computers still had proprietary AI source code on them that I didn't want falling into the wrong hands), and dropped them into the Recycle Bin. Between the DVDs and the old-and-in-the-way electronics, I feel about 100 pounds lighter, and that weight might actually be accurate. Next I start on the books, and my other possessions. My rule is that if I haven't worn it or used it in the current house, I'm certainly never going to use it in the next one. I'm finding it almost a spiritual exercise, like using mindfulness to throw out old, outdated samskaras.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proper Vastu and the moving experience
Just another illusion propagated by people who make money off the deal. From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2014 9:44 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proper Vastu and the moving experience Evidently it is felt that bad orientation could be dangerous. Housing prices in the USA now are fluctuating widely based on entry orientation. Apparently realtors in NYC of necessity have to be facile in both vastu and Feng Shui to close on real estate deals. Well, they clearly are behind the times [in the Netherlands] and evidently slow to adopt more scientific and modern ways. But, you did not even Feng Shui the place? -Buck turquoiseb writes: I can confirm that the housing in this town -- much of which dates back several centuries and is not about to concern itself with such trivia as which direction its main entrance faces -- does not give a shit about Vastu. Nor should anyone who wishes to ever be considered sane. My suggestion if that you wish to become rectified, you should visit your proctologist. It will cost less than its TMO counterpart, and will be less invasive. :-) Subject:[FairfieldLife] Vastu and the moving experience Om. Dear Turqb; Did you get the new place, rectified? You know, Spiritually fixed. Does it have an East entry or something less auspicious? Does Rental and housing price in the Netherlands fluctuate according to the direction of the home entry? -Buck turquoiseb writes: Some people hate moving. Packing up their belongings and moving to a new house is a major trauma event in their lives. Me, having done it so often, I kinda look upon it as a blessing. But then I've moved almost fifty times in my life, so I'm kinda used to it. For me, it provides not a trauma, but an *opportunity*. You get to go through your STUFF, and figure out how much of it deserves to become STUFF in your new house. It's a major opportunity for STUFF maintenance. Before the MGC starts rejoicing and saying, Great -- he's finally been thrown out of the Netherlands and has to move somewhere else, this particular move is only across Leiden, to a new house here. The owners of the house we currently rent are ending their tenure as diplomats in China and want to come back, so we've found another, nicer house about a kilometer away, still within the Leiden Centrum. And the new place is definitely nicer -- it's got a garden, a solarium in which to have outside dinners even on rainy days, and more usable space. We'll be happier there. But first comes the packing. And yes, that's sometimes a bitch, but I'm looking at it this time as an opportunity to divest myself of STUFF that has outlived its usefulness. My DVD collection, for example. I kept a few true collector's items, but either gave away or sold the rest of them. Movies are just too *available* online these days for me to have the need to carry around a bunch of boxes of DVDs. I just got back from biking a huge load of old, dead computers and electronics to the Recycle Center as well. After all, I still had two old computers of my own and three that used to belong to IBM but died on me, so they didn't want them back. I lugged them to the current place during our last move, just in case they changed their minds, but there is no need to do so again. So I wiped the hard disks (the IBM computers still had proprietary AI source code on them that I didn't want falling into the wrong hands), and dropped them into the Recycle Bin. Between the DVDs and the old-and-in-the-way electronics, I feel about 100 pounds lighter, and that weight might actually be accurate. Next I start on the books, and my other possessions. My rule is that if I haven't worn it or used it in the current house, I'm certainly never going to use it in the next one. I'm finding it almost a spiritual exercise, like using mindfulness to throw out old, outdated samskaras.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proper Vastu and the moving experience
From: Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Just another illusion propagated by people who make money off the deal. Compare and contrast: New York City Vastu Barcelona Vastu Texas Vastu Dutch Vastu Bourtange is a village with a population of 430 in the municipality of Vlagtwedde in the Netherlands. The star fort was built in 1593 during the Eighty Years’ War when William I of Orange wanted to control the only road between Germany and the city of Groningen. Bourtange was restored to its mid-18th-century state in 1960 and is currently used as an open-air museum. From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Evidently it is felt that bad orientation could be dangerous. Housing prices in the USA now are fluctuating widely based on entry orientation. Apparently realtors in NYC of necessity have to be facile in both vastu and Feng Shui to close on real estate deals. Well, they clearly are behind the times [in the Netherlands] and evidently slow to adopt more scientific and modern ways. But, you did not even Feng Shui the place? -Buck turquoiseb writes: I can confirm that the housing in this town -- much of which dates back several centuries and is not about to concern itself with such trivia as which direction its main entrance faces -- does not give a shit about Vastu. Nor should anyone who wishes to ever be considered sane. My suggestion if that you wish to become rectified, you should visit your proctologist. It will cost less than its TMO counterpart, and will be less invasive. :-) Subject:[FairfieldLife] Vastu and the moving experience Om. Dear Turqb; Did you get the new place, rectified? You know, Spiritually fixed. Does it have an East entry or something less auspicious? Does Rental and housing price in the Netherlands fluctuate according to the direction of the home entry? -Buck turquoiseb writes: Some people hate moving. Packing up their belongings and moving to a new house is a major trauma event in their lives. Me, having done it so often, I kinda look upon it as a blessing. But then I've moved almost fifty times in my life, so I'm kinda used to it. For me, it provides not a trauma, but an *opportunity*. You get to go through your STUFF, and figure out how much of it deserves to become STUFF in your new house. It's a major opportunity for STUFF maintenance. Before the MGC starts rejoicing and saying, Great -- he's finally been thrown out of the Netherlands and has to move somewhere else, this particular move is only across Leiden, to a new house here. The owners of the house we currently rent are ending their tenure as diplomats in China and want to come back, so we've found another, nicer house about a kilometer away, still within the Leiden Centrum. And the new place is definitely nicer -- it's got a garden, a solarium in which to have outside dinners even on rainy days, and more usable space. We'll be happier there. But first comes the packing. And yes, that's sometimes a bitch, but I'm looking at it this time as an opportunity to divest myself of STUFF that has outlived its usefulness. My DVD collection, for example. I kept a few true collector's items, but either gave away or sold the rest of them. Movies are just too *available* online these days for me to have the need to carry around a bunch of boxes of DVDs. I just got back from biking a huge load of old, dead computers and electronics to the Recycle Center as well. After all, I still had two old computers of my own and three that used to belong to IBM but died on me, so they didn't want them back. I lugged them to the current place during our last move, just in case they changed their minds, but there is no need to do so again. So I wiped the hard disks (the IBM computers still had proprietary AI source code on them that I didn't want falling into the wrong hands), and dropped them into the Recycle Bin. Between the DVDs and the old-and-in-the-way electronics, I feel about 100 pounds lighter, and that weight might actually be accurate. Next I start on the books, and my other possessions. My rule is that if I haven't worn it or used it in the current house, I'm certainly never going to use it in the next one. I'm finding it almost a spiritual exercise, like using mindfulness to throw out old, outdated samskaras.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proper Vastu and the moving experience
OMG, how can people bear to live in big cities?! Anyway, an interesting feng shui practice is to get rid of 27 items for 9 days in a row. The items can be thrown away, donated or sold. And if you miss a day, you gotta start over! On Saturday, June 21, 2014 9:17 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote: From: Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Just another illusion propagated by people who make money off the deal. Compare and contrast: New York City Vastu Barcelona Vastu Texas Vastu Dutch Vastu Bourtange is a village with a population of 430 in the municipality of Vlagtwedde in the Netherlands. The star fort was built in 1593 during the Eighty Years’ War when William I of Orange wanted to control the only road between Germany and the city of Groningen. Bourtange was restored to its mid-18th-century state in 1960 and is currently used as an open-air museum. From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Evidently it is felt that bad orientation could be dangerous. Housing prices in the USA now are fluctuating widely based on entry orientation. Apparently realtors in NYC of necessity have to be facile in both vastu and Feng Shui to close on real estate deals. Well, they clearly are behind the times [in the Netherlands] and evidently slow to adopt more scientific and modern ways. But, you did not even Feng Shui the place? -Buck turquoiseb writes: I can confirm that the housing in this town -- much of which dates back several centuries and is not about to concern itself with such trivia as which direction its main entrance faces -- does not give a shit about Vastu. Nor should anyone who wishes to ever be considered sane. My suggestion if that you wish to become rectified, you should visit your proctologist. It will cost less than its TMO counterpart, and will be less invasive. :-) Subject:[FairfieldLife] Vastu and the moving experience Om. Dear Turqb; Did you get the new place, rectified? You know, Spiritually fixed. Does it have an East entry or something less auspicious? Does Rental and housing price in the Netherlands fluctuate according to the direction of the home entry? -Buck turquoiseb writes: Some people hate moving. Packing up their belongings and moving to a new house is a major trauma event in their lives. Me, having done it so often, I kinda look upon it as a blessing. But then I've moved almost fifty times in my life, so I'm kinda used to it. For me, it provides not a trauma, but an *opportunity*. You get to go through your STUFF, and figure out how much of it deserves to become STUFF in your new house. It's a major opportunity for STUFF maintenance. Before the MGC starts rejoicing and saying, Great -- he's finally been thrown out of the Netherlands and has to move somewhere else, this particular move is only across Leiden, to a new house here. The owners of the house we currently rent are ending their tenure as diplomats in China and want to come back, so we've found another, nicer house about a kilometer away, still within the Leiden Centrum. And the new place is definitely nicer -- it's got a garden, a solarium in which to have outside dinners even on rainy days, and more usable space. We'll be happier there. But first comes the packing. And yes, that's sometimes a bitch, but I'm looking at it this time as an opportunity to divest myself of STUFF that has outlived its usefulness. My DVD collection, for example. I kept a few true collector's items, but either gave away or sold the rest of them. Movies are just too *available* online these days for me to have the need to carry around a bunch of boxes of DVDs. I just got back from biking a huge load of old, dead computers and electronics to the Recycle Center as well. After all, I still had two old computers of my own and three that used to belong to IBM but died on me, so they didn't want them back. I lugged them to the current place during our last move, just in case they changed their minds, but there is no need to do so again. So I wiped the hard disks (the IBM computers still had proprietary AI source code on them that I didn't want falling into the wrong hands), and dropped them into the Recycle Bin. Between the DVDs and the old-and-in-the-way electronics, I feel about 100 pounds lighter, and that weight might actually be accurate. Next I start on the books, and my other possessions. My rule is that if I haven't worn it or used it in the current house, I'm certainly never going to use it in the next one. I'm finding it almost a spiritual exercise, like using mindfulness to throw out old, outdated samskaras.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proper Vastu and the moving experience
Very cool! Thanks Barry. From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2014 10:17 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proper Vastu and the moving experience From: Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Just another illusion propagated by people who make money off the deal. Compare and contrast: New York City Vastu Barcelona Vastu Texas Vastu Dutch Vastu Bourtange is a village with a population of 430 in the municipality of Vlagtwedde in the Netherlands. The star fort was built in 1593 during the Eighty Years’ War when William I of Orange wanted to control the only road between Germany and the city of Groningen. Bourtange was restored to its mid-18th-century state in 1960 and is currently used as an open-air museum. From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Evidently it is felt that bad orientation could be dangerous. Housing prices in the USA now are fluctuating widely based on entry orientation. Apparently realtors in NYC of necessity have to be facile in both vastu and Feng Shui to close on real estate deals. Well, they clearly are behind the times [in the Netherlands] and evidently slow to adopt more scientific and modern ways. But, you did not even Feng Shui the place? -Buck turquoiseb writes: I can confirm that the housing in this town -- much of which dates back several centuries and is not about to concern itself with such trivia as which direction its main entrance faces -- does not give a shit about Vastu. Nor should anyone who wishes to ever be considered sane. My suggestion if that you wish to become rectified, you should visit your proctologist. It will cost less than its TMO counterpart, and will be less invasive. :-) Subject:[FairfieldLife] Vastu and the moving experience Om. Dear Turqb; Did you get the new place, rectified? You know, Spiritually fixed. Does it have an East entry or something less auspicious? Does Rental and housing price in the Netherlands fluctuate according to the direction of the home entry? -Buck turquoiseb writes: Some people hate moving. Packing up their belongings and moving to a new house is a major trauma event in their lives. Me, having done it so often, I kinda look upon it as a blessing. But then I've moved almost fifty times in my life, so I'm kinda used to it. For me, it provides not a trauma, but an *opportunity*. You get to go through your STUFF, and figure out how much of it deserves to become STUFF in your new house. It's a major opportunity for STUFF maintenance. Before the MGC starts rejoicing and saying, Great -- he's finally been thrown out of the Netherlands and has to move somewhere else, this particular move is only across Leiden, to a new house here. The owners of the house we currently rent are ending their tenure as diplomats in China and want to come back, so we've found another, nicer house about a kilometer away, still within the Leiden Centrum. And the new place is definitely nicer -- it's got a garden, a solarium in which to have outside dinners even on rainy days, and more usable space. We'll be happier there. But first comes the packing. And yes, that's sometimes a bitch, but I'm looking at it this time as an opportunity to divest myself of STUFF that has outlived its usefulness. My DVD collection, for example. I kept a few true collector's items, but either gave away or sold the rest of them. Movies are just too *available* online these days for me to have the need to carry around a bunch of boxes of DVDs. I just got back from biking a huge load of old, dead computers and electronics to the Recycle Center as well. After all, I still had two old computers of my own and three that used to belong to IBM but died on me, so they didn't want them back. I lugged them to the current place during our last move, just in case they changed their minds, but there is no need to do so again. So I wiped the hard disks (the IBM computers still had proprietary AI source code on them that I didn't want falling into the wrong hands), and dropped them into the Recycle Bin. Between the DVDs and the old-and-in-the-way electronics, I feel about 100 pounds lighter, and that weight might actually be accurate. Next I start on the books, and my other possessions. My rule is that if I haven't worn it or used it in the current house, I'm certainly never going to use it in the next one. I'm finding it almost a spiritual exercise, like using mindfulness to throw out old, outdated samskaras.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proper Vastu and the moving experience
On 6/21/2014 8:56 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Just another illusion propagated by people who make money off the deal. That's the whole point of rental property - making money. You must get very annoyed at your neighbors in the duplex you rent. Sometimes people get angry when they realize that they've paid in rent the whole cost of the purchase price of the house they are renting - over the course of ten years. But, don't take it out on the owner! *From:* dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Saturday, June 21, 2014 9:44 AM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Re: Proper Vastu and the moving experience Evidently it is felt that bad orientation could be dangerous. Housing prices in the USA now are fluctuating widely based on entry orientation. Apparently realtors in NYC of necessity have to be facile in both vastu and Feng Shui to close on real estate deals. Well, they clearly are behind the times [in the Netherlands] and evidently slow to adopt more scientific and modern ways. But, you did not even Feng Shui the place? -Buck turquoiseb writes: I can confirm that the housing in this town -- much of which dates back several centuries and is not about to concern itself with such trivia as which direction its main entrance faces -- does not give a shit about Vastu. Nor should anyone who wishes to ever be considered sane. My suggestion if that you wish to become rectified, you should visit your proctologist. It will cost less than its TMO counterpart, and will be less invasive. :-) * * * * *Subject:*[FairfieldLife] Vastu and the moving experience Om. Dear Turqb; Did you get the new place, rectified? You know, Spiritually fixed. Does it have an East entry or something less auspicious? Does Rental and housing price in the Netherlands fluctuate according to the direction of the home entry? -Buck turquoiseb writes: Some people hate moving. Packing up their belongings and moving to a new house is a major trauma event in their lives. Me, having done it so often, I kinda look upon it as a blessing. But then I've moved almost fifty times in my life, so I'm kinda used to it. For me, it provides not a trauma, but an *opportunity*. You get to go through your STUFF, and figure out how much of it deserves to become STUFF in your new house. It's a major opportunity for STUFF maintenance. Before the MGC starts rejoicing and saying, Great -- he's finally been thrown out of the Netherlands and has to move somewhere else, this particular move is only across Leiden, to a new house here. The owners of the house we currently rent are ending their tenure as diplomats in China and want to come back, so we've found another, nicer house about a kilometer away, still within the Leiden Centrum. And the new place is definitely nicer -- it's got a garden, a solarium in which to have outside dinners even on rainy days, and more usable space. We'll be happier there. But first comes the packing. And yes, that's sometimes a bitch, but I'm looking at it this time as an opportunity to divest myself of STUFF that has outlived its usefulness. My DVD collection, for example. I kept a few true collector's items, but either gave away or sold the rest of them. Movies are just too *available* online these days for me to have the need to carry around a bunch of boxes of DVDs. I just got back from biking a huge load of old, dead computers and electronics to the Recycle Center as well. After all, I still had two old computers of my own and three that used to belong to IBM but died on me, so they didn't want them back. I lugged them to the current place during our last move, just in case they changed their minds, but there is no need to do so again. So I wiped the hard disks (the IBM computers still had proprietary AI source code on them that I didn't want falling into the wrong hands), and dropped them into the Recycle Bin. Between the DVDs and the old-and-in-the-way electronics, I feel about 100 pounds lighter, and that weight might actually be accurate. Next I start on the books, and my other possessions. My rule is that if I haven't worn it or used it in the current house, I'm certainly never going to use it in the next one. I'm finding it almost a spiritual exercise, like using mindfulness to throw out old, outdated samskaras.
