Moving house (American style)

Last Sunday, Sofia called me while I was away selling th Olive Oil " come soon there is a house in front of our house, there is a house on the road" I was tired anyway of not selling anything packed up the bottles and left only to see the policeman blocking our road and diverting the traffic and left and on the way saw a glimpse of this massive house in the middle of the road on the other end. I parked on the side street and walked to this wonder, there was a 2 story house being pulled by a truck with a police bike in the back and one in the front. They were literally moving the whole 2 story house on a steel frame from one place to another with all the furnishings inside! Amazing, I never saw anything like that and i got the camera and walked quite a distance behind the House to get these photos to share..

A letter from Waldorf school after the Earthquake in New-zealand

Hello everyone in our Federation and Steiner network of schools and friends,

Thank you everyone who has contacted me over the last days.  Our little city is in ruins. There is tragedy everywhere that you see both in the news and things that you may never hear. It is so so awful and fills me with tears that so many people have died, so many have  torn amputations, spinal injuries, crushed bodies, weeping spirits and that the whole city is ruined - from every historic building to the most modern. The effects will be decades in rebuilding.

We personally are ok. My family is ok and we have had damage but minor compared to most.

School was evacuated at 12.51 on Tuesday. Getting out of my office was like trying to walk on a rocking ships deck -  grasping for  hand rails before being tossed in  the other direction. Files were falling, draws flying open. The kids ran to their designated areas. everyone was accounted for. Children were weeping and hugging. many of the  teachers who were terrified after the last quake were pale and shaking but overcame this to bring calmness to their classes. i am so proud of them all. Most kids jackets were inside. It got colder and, with big quakes every few minutes, their anxiety rose - especially as they saw houses on the hills behind us collapsing.

Our flash text communication system with every parent was useless as power was gone. we waited and parents slowly and frantically arrived. some had run from teh city centre and brought stories of modern buildings collapsing. Others told of roads  broken and water gushing onto the streets, liquifaction creating gaping holes in roads. St Martins supermarket - just over the river - was impossible to get to. The kindergarten children sat with Robyn and Frances and Annalie and Ellen and their helpers. They kept assuring the little tamariki. In the lower school children sat in their class groups. all our practises for fire drills were SO helpful - we had class lists ticked off, barley sugars, blankets and stories. The Upper school, who are usually a little frisky about fire drills were superb, contained and supportive of each other.

we watched quake after quake ripple across the school land, saw cracks like lightening bolts appear in the concrete slabs. we could hear the  deep rumble of the next quake  seconds before  it struck.

as i walked around to each class I was so proud of our  community of teachers and  the increasing number of parents who brought in food, chocolate, bananas, pears, hugs, comfort and assurance.

Lyttelton was cut off,  Sumner and Redcliffs too and there were reports that Diamond habour was isolated. text messages were intimitant.

we were looking at evacuating to a welfare centre. But by 5pm almost most children were gone with someone who was either family or classmate. parents who had lost their homes setup tents in the field.

school is now closed. no water,  no electricity. we have to wait for a building inspection before we can return. Ironically there was an insurance assessor  inspecting damage from the last quake at school as it struck. he was upstairs in the staff workroom and saw all the computers fall to the ground.

we don't know when we will have water without sewerage as the entire infrastructure of the town is cracked. School could be a long time beginning.

A few Steiner schools have offered to have children and  families who want to get out of town. Thank you very very  much for the offers. I am trying to coordinate  lists of frightened familes ( most have no power or water or cell phones or  petrol ) and places in schools that are available. We are looking  at Federation funds assisting this. If your school wants to do something for the earthquake you could raise money for these families or just raise money for Chch. The cities needs will be ongoing for a long long time. we wonder whether the central city will survive.

Can you email back to Mark and he could set up an account for this perhaps. please email me atThomasp@ihug.co.nz (as school is not working) regarding places in your school and families that can take in our parents.

If you aren't in a position to do this, then pray for Christchurch and its suffering families  - thank you very much.

Another shock has just passed through - its a weird mixture of  inner  high alert  and helplessness. The sense  i get is that this is very different from the last quake. Apart from more deaths and more carnage, there is a weariness and exhaustion from months of  vigilance and  work that is now useless. That resilience to get up and get at it ( like digging out the  heavy clay liquifaction) is not as strong and  is counter to the  much talked about  indominatable Canterbury spirit.  I think we will need long term continual suport on many levels to get over this one.

lots of love to you all, and thanks for what you can do.

yours,

Thomas - for all the teachers

I am aware of weaknesses and now

Atlantis

Humans still recognized that they’re a part of god on earth and nothing exists separately from god. They were conscious that if they were a part of the creational spirit, which has been materialized for millions of years, they had to possess in themselves dormant, the almighty powers waiting to be awakened. Thousands of years ago the gods came down to Earth from the stars to initiate a genesis. Human civilization was formed and reached a peak with Atlantis.
A dark age began and the battle of Atlantean gods led to its fall. A secret brotherhood brought Atlantean secret teachings before the fall to Egypt. Through all civilizations and with inspiration from extraterrestrial guards the secret Atlantean brotherhood managed all political systems with an educational mission.
Following the catastrophe in Atlantis all nations were dispersed. A part of the Atlantean brotherhood’s secret knowledge survived in Egypt, in India and in Tibet. The heirs of these secret brotherhoods led mankind during the dark age…through Atlantean knowledge and through all ages.
Atlantean secret knowledge tells us the legend of mankind and those souls, who have to undergo cycles. With the fall of Atlantis a high civilization cycle had ended. All prophecies and more recent Earth changes point out that today’s mankind has reached the end of the next experience cycle.
Millenniums have passed… since the high culture of Atlantis sank with a catastrophe through power abuse of some corrupt scientists. All humans of that time, who also experienced the descent into the dark age, are being reincarnated today.
For millenniums the secrets of creation were exclusively limited to an elite of secret societies. Now we have entered the so-called Last Days where these secret societies like the Freemasons and the secret political lodges lose their power.

Looking back on 2010

A year in photos! We traveled three continents: North and South India, then Italy and northern Europe, then to the West coast of the USA! And here we will stay for the next few years. These are of course family pics, not travel photos; three continents through the eyes of Sidhartha! Enjoy!



If you will like to slow down the speed of slide show please click on the photo and it will take you to the picassaweb album and there on the top left click to view "full screen" there when you move your mouse over it and underneath the slideshow parameters will appear including how many seconds interval you want in between the photos, so sit back grab some corn and enjoy the trip:)

200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes

Silly world consumed by stylized way of silly facts or is it?