…in health
Your Eyewitness noticed this series on Yoga his paper’s running. Back in the day, Yoga would’ve been seen as exotic if not esoteric. Unspeakable contortions those fellas with matted hair and emaciated frames subjected their bodies to in remote Himalayan mountaintops. From which they emerge after decades with the wisdom of the ages. No more!
Today, Yoga’s all THE rage in the US and if they think Yoga’s “cool”, the rest of the world isn’t going to be far behind, are they? Especially when celebrities from Julia Roberts to Halle Berry are Yoga freaks. But really…is Yoga just another fad? Your Eyewitness did his due diligence (listen up City Council!) on yoga and can tell you, Dear Readers: this is the real deal.
Firstly, it’s been done for thousands of years and produced the same results that everyone’s going gaga about: less stress, control over diabetes and hypertension, a gateway into meditation and control over the mind, good posture, muscles that don’t go “pop!” when you just bend over! And then there’s the side benefit of less wrinkles because of less stress!
But the Yoga craze highlights how the West threw out the baby with the bathwater in so many practices of folks they conquered. Whether by hit or miss – or whatever process of investigation – all human societies worked out rules for living happier and healthier lives. Even in ordinary daily activities.
Let’s take the case when farmers try to store paddy or rice grains: it’s attacked by weevils. Farmers in India threw leaves from the Neem tree into the bin…and voila! no weevils. That, the British sneered, was sheer superstition. Never mind they never bothered to use their vaunted science to find out why weevils were ACTUALLY repelled! And so on and so forth.
Point of the matter is there’s a lot of wisdom in ancient folk ways. Not that there aren’t some superstitions also. But let’s separate the wheat from the chaff, shall we? But back to Yoga. Last year, the UN declared June 21 as “International Day of Yoga” and all over the world people are flexing and bending on their now ubiquitous rubber mats they spread on beaches, parks and wherever their health urge takes them.
Is this the beginning of Western humility in conceding they don’t have the answer to everything? Well, in addition to Yoga, your Eyewitness notes the West is gradually accepting that it’s best to measure “happiness” to figure out if folks are happy.
Rather than guessing from GDP!
…at Wales
What’s going on with the situation at Wales? It’s time we stop playing around with people’s lives. Your Eyewitness saw this statement that unequivocally promised “an all-weather road” to be built from Wales to Uitvlugt. Say what???! Could somebody explain to our Minister of Agri what an “all-weather road” is and what hauling 100,000 tonnes of cane twice every year with tractors and trailers will do to such a road?
At present, not all the cane from any estate is hauled on a single road. But even before we get there…will the Minister peek at the Google Map of the area between Wales and Uitvlugt? Notice that vast body of water? That’s the eastern end of the Boerasirie Conservancy, thank you.
Does the Minister plan on filling that part of the Conservancy? Or is he gonna drill a tunnel under the water?
Either way, after spending at least $1 billion, the road will simple collapse in a year.
See paragraph above on the basics!
…on City Hall arrogance
Now that the Town Clerk and the Mayor’ve been caught with their pants down in Mexico (figuratively, of course!), a terse press release has been issued by the former.
Not only are they going ahead with their parking scheme, but “wider modernisation and improvements are coming to the City that will accelerate it towards parity with the other great capital cities across the world”.
And you were worried!!
