The eczema I suffer from has reduced a lot but has not gone and am still fighting it to get rid of it totally. So keeping one's mind occupied helps......praying has been great, thinking peaceful thoughts, gardening, drinking lots of water, doing the washing up, and playing sport.

Talking of peaceful thoughts, am helping a lady in her 60s train for the South Pole race this year. She is intending to take everyone's peace message to the South Pole to read them to the earth. The idea is to follow an ancient Tibetan tradition of flying messages on prayer flags to bring peace and harmony to all.

So all you readers, I would encourage you to send Tess a peace message on any subject such as for personal reasons, your environment, or the world. You can read about this mission here as well as a sample of what other folks have written: http://www.teamsouthernlights.org/12.html

You can also leave your peace messages here:
http://www.climbfortibet.org/peace_messages.cfm

Have a peaceful week.....and of course....."To the pole and beyond!"