Toronto, Ontario
Walking Helps
Two mature women noticed me ambling along on Bloor
Street. They began to speak and ask me
if I was praying after seeing my right hand fingering my beads.
“Yes, as a matter of fact.”
“Maybe you can help us?”
“I’ll see if I can,” I said, and prepared myself to
listen.
“Did you know that medicare in Canada could get
compromised? You know that Tommy Douglas
brought medicare to this country?”
“Yes, and by the way, last summer I was on a pilgrimage
and I was walking in the district where he was born and raised.”
“In Saskatchewan, right?
Well we just came from a meeting and his daughter was there, she’s about
80.”
“Is that right?”
“Please help us.
Fill out this form, put in your vote for the Government to renegotiate
for the new Health Accord. We are really
concerned.”
“Sure, give me a few of your forms for the people in my ashram.”
“So, you’re a Buddhist?”
“No, Hare Krishna.”
We parted congenially.
The big concern in the US today is just that, medical
health. Obama is trying to secure a
reasonable health care system for Americans.
It seems there’s a need. There
is, of course, a lot that can be said about investing in preventative illness
through education. If you look at the
average diet people are on in North America, it’s no wonder ailments are on the
epidemic level. Anyways, I vouch for and
would vote for healthy food and a karma free diet for all human beings. Walking helps.
May the Source be with you!
5 KM
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