Lifelong learning and promotion of excellence in 'retirement'

Screen capture image of my new 'Alison Mann's Yoga for Herefordshire Weekly Class Schedule' Web Log
for Kundalini Yoga Teacher Alison Mann in Herefordshire

My blogging has taken on a new leash of life this past week, by helping my Kundalini Yoga teacher friend Alison Mann with her business promotion and outreach, via
https://alisonsyogashire.blogspot.com/

I'd noticed that Alison was experiencing difficulties updating her Paths To Wellbeing website and offered to lend a hand via blogging that would not require me to have access to her log-on stuff for her own website, and cost her nothing. (Meanwhile, she gets very involved in Facebook connections.) She accepted my offer gladly and with trust.

I've acquired digital skills via home computing with aid of manuals, and while there are layout problems such as getting 'Herefordshire' to fit into one line of text in the right hand 'side-bar' as shown above, I can work on the design aspects at my leisure and help a friend who lacks those skills focus on her main task that is Yoga and Ayruvedic Massage.

Alison's business mission is helping to bring Yoga and Ayurvedic Masssage throughout Herefordshire.

I end this blog post with my poetic rendition from 1982 of what was presented to me in 1979 as an ancient Korean folk tale or moral fable.

Talking Heaven & Hell

There was someone so charitably wise
That their earthly deeds led them to Paradise;
But they asked before staying to dwell therein,
That they could inspect the Land of Sin.

In a Hellish Pit, a Cauldron heaped with food
Was surrounded by a starving multitude;
So he asked his guide, "How can it be
That the people here dwell in such misery —

"In that Cauldron, there is food a-plenty
Yet the people round it have stomachs empty?"

"The answer is simple, the landlord said.
The people here are never fed;
And to feed themselves, they're given long chopsticks;
But that still leaves them in an awful fix!

"For the chopsticks reach just inside the bowl,
But they can't deliver the food for their mouths to hold;
Before they can deliver it to their lips,
It leaves the chopsticks and in the pit it slips."

Heaven's Cauldron was of like situation
But the people there didn't suffer from starvation;
They were happy, radiant, and healthily strong —
Though they, too, had chopsticks that were thin and long.

The reason they didn't suffer from starvation
Is inherent in the Law of Compensation:
They had discovered, through feeding each other,
The way to avoid a lot of bother.

By Alan the Poet Therapeutic
© 1982 By Alan Wheatley

PS: Alison says, "Yoga means 'union', and is for everyBody, and is a branch of Ayur-Veda [life knowledge] as is Ayurvedic Massage."