Climbing The Everest

Today is the big 'The Everest' race at Sydney's Royal Randwick.

It is the richest horse race in the world.

So I guess we'll have to talk about it. Extremely good horses, great horse trainers. Everything good. It's good. Someone will win.

LOL

Bahnhofstrasse, Zurich. Where the 
rich people go shopping.

Believe me to some extent I am doing readers a disservice because there are some areas I simply am very reluctant to touch - well not exactly to touch because I do talk about it all the time; but I don't like to actually say 'death' and especially not 'killing.'

...Now this is nothing to do with horse racing! I'm slipping it in here, to slide it through, and just mention, that there was one single pic I had resisted posting for about two months. The subject is distasteful to me. 

And probably we don't even need 'to go there' just yet anyway. Okay, all you need to be aware of is that there is 'death' in the background of everything. So, what's new, right?

You and I are well out of it. I don't need to be involved and neither do you.

We need to try, and turn our attention to much more uplifting things, in spite of the fact that this will entail quite a good deal of schizophrenia over coming months and even years.

According to standard Chinese folklore, if you wish to have good dreams at night, sleep with fresh lemons near your head.

And, if you want money to come to you readily, have a bowl of nine fresh lemons around the place. But not in a metal container or a metal bowl.

Listen I could go into so much more about that it would spin your head off your shoulders - again! 

Luxembergli thing-ys

We're not going to go into any detail.

Thank god.

Winter is around the corner in the Northern Hemisphere.

The sun is setting lower in the sky.

It should be getting really cold over there now.

Funny -, lemons grow best in winter.

You think the sun has gone but there are all these lemons and oranges around the place.

Same even with the other Persian thing - tulips.

Bright, colorful things.

While everything else is dark and grey or even black as thick night. There they are - yellow, orange, red, purple...

You should buy yourself a pair of 'reading socks' and get settled in for the long winter months ahead.

I mean you are really not truly rich unless you have 1. a good pair of reading socks, 2. good coffee, and 3. a supply of fresh lemons.

Oh, and the knowledge about how to use the lemons...

The Chinese say that if you place eight lemons in a circle on a bed of salt (lol - it's what they say! Honest!), and one lemon in the middle, you will gain prosperity.

I know about other things to do with lemons - those little globes of sunlight in the winter...

Now if you gain a lot of prosperity, though, you could in theory, take off for Zurich, even in winter, and hang around the most expensive shops in the world, and look at the Cartier watches and the Rolex watches and so on, dress in warm clothing, eat macaroons, drink Swiss coffee, and, well, wouldn't that be fun for you?

Or, you could just wear your reading socks, stick your feet up, grab the best coffee you can get locally, and look out of windows.

Don't you feel sometimes, that instead of all the fussin' and 'needful things' you just have some place to go where there is no pressure at all?

...I've been desperately trying to avoid showcasing expensive stuff here recently, you know.

And I think that's actually a good idea anyway. We need to take a closer look at the easily accessible things we have to hand, and see them in all of their many dimensions.