Lunar Party and Sales, Health Matters

The highlight of the past few days was attending a Lunar New Year party hosted by tabouli. It was mostly attended by her friends in Toastmasters and a writing group, which were all lovely company and with cherry conversation. I've even made a couple of new friends out of the event. Tabouli really provided a wonderful reading of "The Great Race: The Story of the Chinese Zodiac", a children's book on the story of how the Lunar calendar was established and proved her ability to mimic and roleplay the sounds of the various animal characters. We were also introduced to the low-complexity party game, Taboo by Tiffany; a good vocabulary is certainly helpful. Tabouli also conducted private I Ching and Tarot readings in the course of the evening which, as useful, could prove quite insightful. Of course, the insight is provided is that such tools tap into one's unconscious. One has already been thinking deeply about a particular situation and even has an answer mapped out. The cards simply provide the bridge between conscious realisation and unconscious reflections.

On further lunar matters, I was recently alerted to a report that Adam Smith Institute has suggested selling the moon to combat global poverty. As if that's the only way to do it. It is a rather ironic argument seeming that Adam Smith was a steadfast advocate for maximum land taxation which, of course, groups like the Adam Smith Institute abuse the name and do not argue for. I rather suspect that they do not share Adam Smith's view of the legal fiction of corporate personhood, either. Such arguments for the complete privitisation of natural resources are quite antithetical to genuine capitalism, as the early economists knew, and instead, it is a type of monetary feudalism. Most modes of production start off as revolutionary, then become mainstream, and then become a fetter for future development. I would require more investigation but I suspect that capitalism is the first mode of production that actually goes backward as it develops beyond its highest point.

It has not all been fair sailing in my world, however. I have been getting some small, random, dizzy spells of late and a few of days ago one resulted in me misjudging a curb and falling to the ground. A couple of scrapes etc, and I'm otherwise fine. But then I start getting some rather bad headaches, almost like a migraine. It wasn't until late yesterday that I realised that part of my glasses was chipped, just on the periphery of my vision, which I suspect was the cause. So spare glasses are being used, new glasses have been ordered. As for the dizzy spells, I am going to see a doctor about those, but I have reason to believe that they are more psychological than physical (indeed, I hope that's the case). I learned some news last week which left me simultaneously quite uncomfortable and empty, not so much the content but rather the circumstances. I do not need to elaborate much further at this stage, but it is worth mentioning apropos that through work I've enrolled in a Mental Health First Aid course: Iatre, therapeuson seauton.