Visiting Paris. Again. In the fall.
On the train I sent a message from my lab top. Normally I hear it go off. Here - nothing.
At the station - nobody.
Normally - in cases of delay - I get a call. At home my mobil rests in the kitchen window and rings loud and clear. Here - a call -, but the ring tone is drowned, so I do not hear it.
My ears ring as I walk.
And - as would be expeted - I soon loose my way.
Make mistakes and learn from them...!...?
Checking my mini-guide. Complication #1: Paris is organised in districts, which are interlocked without appearant logic. Complication #2: Dislexia does not permit me to change placement concepts. Definite mistake: Not to have checked the direction of my movements in the first place. Fazit: A few hours lost.
Finally I sort the puzzle over cafe àu lait and rubarb crumble (hmm...) in a café near Chatelet, Paris' central subway station, which serendipidously appeared at the center of my odyssee.
But the time was not all together lost. While finding my way I learned to walk.
Raising the second neck vertebrta, C2, not only adds centimeters to my stature, relaxes my back muscles and causes my sacrum to swing forward, thus providing a solid support for my spinal column. It also impacts my feet.
I first noticed this effect a few weeks after I begun to stretch my vertebra from C2 in May. Only a few days later the nail of my right big toe finally came off. Nine years prior young Nidal, in preparation for the foal Leporello's registration and branding, had stepped on this toes and it since progressively deformed and lately had begun to hurt.
Today, wearing new shoes, which I had purchased on the way, I verified the resulting suspicion. And sure enough, raising C2 while walking restores a spring in my feet, activating them in the process. Thereafter walking was no problem and there was no more tiring. Riding Fabian the night before my departure I had noticed how my big toes, if I use them to hold the stirrups, effect the locomotion of his hind legs.
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