Pierre Rabhi

Thanks to my friend M., I discovered this genius man.
I encourage you to read his books and understand his philosophy.

I remember once when I was young, the teacher asked us to write a little essay about how we see ourselves in the future. I wrote : I see myself as a vet in a farm with a cow for the milk, some hens for eggs, a horse, rabbits and a kitchen garden to grow my vegetables. Being a vet, I could heal my animals.
I became a computer engineer... Something obviously went wrong somewhere !!!

Here is a link to know more about Pierre Rabhi and his actions over the world ( in french sorry) :

http://www.pierrerabhi.org/

Renovating old piece of wood furniture

Some time ago, we bought an old cupboard. The wood was pretty damaged and eaten by worms.
The second-hand dealer had treated it but we could still see some sawdust inside sometimes.
I'm now looking for some advice on how to deal with this.
What I already did is sandpaper it (with the machine) to remove the wax and varnish so that the pesticide can get in. I'm not very satisfied by the result... The machine left some striated traces and partially removes the color... :-(
I treated afterwards anyway. But now, I'm not sure what to do...
I think I will fill the wormholes with hardwax then put a colored wax everywhere to try to standardize the color everywhere.
If some sawdust re-appears, I will treat locally.

Anybody experienced with this ? I need advice !!

"Mutant message down under" Marlo Morgan

This is the title of a book I just finished reading (the french name is : "Message des hommes vrais au monde mutant").
The book is a novel (most probably fiction, but that is volontarily unclear) which tells a story about the experience of an American woman who would have spent three months in an Aboriginal tribe, she called the real people. In my opinion, the book is not to be read first level. If this is a true story or not is not that important... Though, I understand the aboriginal people don't like to be "falsely" described... and making money out of their culture does not fit either in the picture...
But anyway, leaving the polemic aside, this is a nice book. It has you travel far from your modern country, opening your mind to "primitive" culture, and make you think about the relationship between the human beings and the earth. I read it with the same eye I read the Bible (I'm not saying this book is a Bible !!!). That Mother Mary is a virgin or not, that Jesus walked over water is true or not, does not matter to me. Are you called a naive because you believe this is true ? To me, the message is important.

Anywho read this book, let me know what you thought about it !