Cobourg-Ontario

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

pain in the back...more

Uploaded on Dec 18, 2011

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With only 10 to 15 minutes daily exercise you can alleviate the pain and your back will become more flexible. Bit by bit your posture will improve and you might even become a few inches taller!

Backpain...watch this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLEF9F4CFD0BD481E3&feature=player_detailpage&v=G-zFOpY-0Rw

Tip...you can roll up a medium size towel and use it instead, good luck.

Monday, February 18, 2013

Cobourg....for sale or rent....

Life in a small town.There are rewards but then there are difficulties as well. Cobourg is probably as nice a place as you will find if it's retirement or a slower lifestyle by the lake is what you are looking for. Employment opportunities are at best miserable or limited. The town itself is a bit behind the times as far as rebuilding and keeping up the downtown area. Many of the old buildings, homes and stores in or near downtown are old and dilapidated looking.Quite a few of the main street ( King Street) retail stores are for sale or for rent and have been vacant for the past two years or more.

A purpose to my blogwork?

Friends and family are not much interested in my blog,too negative and depressing they tell me. So be it.
If we do not think or talk about hunger,misery,neglect,starvation, violence,war,conflict, poverty...how can we effect any change. We must face it and even in minute and small ways attempt to try and change things.

If you feel called upon to alleviate suffering in the world, this is a noble thing to do, but remember not to focus exclusively on it. Otherwise, you will encounter a great deal of frustration and despair yourself.
Without a profound change in human consciousness, the world's suffering is a bottomless pit.

So do not let your compassion become one-sided. Empathy with someone else's pain or lack and want to help must be balanced with a deeper realization of the eternal nature of all life and the ultimate illusion of life.

Monday, December 10, 2012

December 2012...this town

This, Cobourg...is a nice and relatively clean town of about 16,000 and it is easy to live here for me. Most of what I need to buy is available here and for other stuff I take the occasional trip to Peterborough, Oshawa or the big city, Toronto.

One of the strange taxes here is the so called garbage bag tag. Obviously a form of downloaded somewhat invisible form of stupidly applied taxation. A bit of a problem if you happen to live at the end of a quiet street or as in my case at the bottom end of Darcy Street next door to the Water-works.

Some idiot will occasionally stop at the end of the street( the lake is next and no parking signs are posted but ignored) and dump garbage bags and then quickly disappear. That is aside from the daily visitors who throw stuff out of the cars after a short stop coffee break. Or the dog poop left behind,one screwball appears here daily to let his two big dogs do their thing but has never cleaned up any of it.

But, back to the garbage bags...

I now have a choice, buy tags for $2.75 each and fasten them to the bags so the will get picked up, or just leave the junk for animals to rip the stuff apart and scatter the contents all over the place.