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| Random ramblings... |
[05 Jan 2010|08:57pm] |
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The deep winter sluggishness has hit me hard this week. So I'm making lists of small victories in the hopes that I'll stop trying to do more than I'm doing. Tonight I cleaned up two hairballs, tidied the kitchen, made chocolate chip cookie dough to put in the freezer and copied the Michael Meade cd's that I need to pass on to a few people. I also sorted out which notebook to use for the beginning of my Human Sexuality class for work, added some people to the ancestor e-mail list I monitor and got the grocery list for the coming week written out. Not exactly huge accomplishments but enough for today.
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In re-reading some bits of Andean Awakening: An Inca Guide to Mystical Peru by Jorge Luis Delgado, several bits have been sticking in my heart and mind:
"The great teaching of the puma is that it is the animal with the least ego; the puma never seeks to be seen. The puma does what he needs to do to survive without calling attention from anybody. You don't see the puma. You only see where he has been."
"The Apus are like ancestors. These wise and loving grandfathers care for us and want to teach us about the Cosmos."
I've really enjoyed this book quite a lot. It's helped me integrate a lot of the things that I learned from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) runnerwolf and I'm quite pleased to have finally read it.
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I'm astonished and amused at myself for being so. This is in regards to the synchronicities that have been happening all around me these days. I made several collages during the weekend just before New Years. I wanted a reminder of the threads of the coming year, so that I could keep a finger on them as I wove my life in the coming months. I also started drawing weekly cards again, from various decks I use. This weeks cards? Myk the Myomancer from my Froud deck and Ivy/Stretch and Explore from my Ted Andrews Nature Speak Oracle. Add to the bunch the card I got in Pipe circle this week, Face Your Shadow. Myk is all about paying attention to details, to the signs that appear and the things that happen. *snort* Facing My Shadow? I made a collage for an altar dedicated healing the rift between Mom and me. It's all about transforming guilt and trusting that the healing can occur, with love and laughter and hope. And since she gave me her inked baby feet in a frame, I figure that will represent the baby steps along the path. Fitting, eh? Yeesh. Stretch and Explore? Well, I'm starting a year long college program about human sexuality next week. I've also been invited to consider being a part of an earth healing/earth medicine organization that is based in the Bay area. I'd be doing similar work here in the Puget Sound region. And I put out feelers to see if there are any faery seership people up here that might want to meet up. So yeah, lots of stuff going on. And Yes, Myk, I'm doing my very best to pay attention! :)
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Ending with gratuitous cat photographs. Because I can.
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| Cal Fan Strikes a Pose |
[05 Jan 2010|12:46pm] |
Cal fan, Tim S., strikes a Nightlife pose, although Cal would know better than to wear shorts if Goodfellow was anywhere in the area. Where Tim lives is lacking in tall buildings to crouch upon, but his 'photographer' says more may be coming. Cal perched on an ice cream truck? Cal perched on a Texas longhorn steer? Cal perched on a bird bath? The options are limitless! If any other fans have pics (that do not include firearms or any other illegalities) re-enacting the characters at play, send 'em in. And give a hand to Tim Leandros of the Clan Vayash.
And as photobucket is being a piece of shit today and refusing to let me upload anything, here's the link to the pic: http://twitpic.com/wsdqo
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| Links of interest, prolly only for me... |
[01 Jan 2010|06:41pm] |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121752798&ps=cprs
Landowner Calls On Death To Save Her Farm
and this was a particularly touching story about infant memorials.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121758804&ps=cprs
Capturing the Brief Life And Death of an Infant
Today was a beautiful and mellow sort of day. My friend Meghan came over and we spent several hours chatting and having a proper afternoon tea. Now I'm reading a bit before pulling out my pen-pal correspondence bag and getting a couple letters written. I've also got to sort out my stack of books, notebooks and papers that are attempting to topple off my table. Tomorrow is an unexpected free day, so I'm sure it will fill up with something. Sunday faerysprl and I will be going to Pipe ceremony before going over our observations from reading Andean Awakening by Jorge Luis Delgado and decide how we want to go through our next book, which will be Masters Of The Living Energy : Joan Parisi Wilcox.
Here's to a decade that will be full of growth, shedding deadwood, prosperity and laughter! (Yes, I'm being disgustingly cheerfully optimistic. And unapologetic about it as well. When life is good, why not sing?)
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| Thankful Thursday |
[31 Dec 2009|08:03pm] |
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Today I'm grateful for...
... starting a new year and decade with a sense of hopeful purpose.
... waking up as my body wants to rather than with an alarm.
... wacky dreams.
... having enough. And knowing in my heart and soul that it is so.
... rediscovering fun shoes.
... days off with no plans.
And as an exercise in reflection, in the last year:
I've traveled out of state no less than 6 times.
I've taken numerous day and weekend trips with loved ones.
I've attended two conventions, two ancestor intensives and two other spiritual workshops.
I've created a loose structure for my life that seems to help me keep my boundaries and energy levels intact.
I've solidified some aspects of my spiritual work, including finding teachers that I can work well with and a spiritual foundation in Andean Shamanism.
I've made new friends and learned that community doesn't have to suck.
I've found a job that suits me enough to commit to taking college courses.
In the last decade:
I've stuck to my ovo-lacto vegetarian diet except for the times where my spiritual path requires otherwise, which isn't often.
Paul and I have discovered our style of polyamory and figured out how to do it a healthy way.
I found my voice and learned how to use it.
I stopped taking myself so seriously.
I travelled a lot, including 2 trips to England, a trip to New York, a road trip to the Southwest and a trip to New Orleans.
I let some relationships fade, nurtured others and grew new ones.
I had 5 different jobs.
We moved 3 times.
I learned that strawberries, watermelon, blackberries and blueberries are marvelous foods.
... and much, much more.
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| A wish for all of us in 2010 |
[31 Dec 2009|04:52pm] |
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Plenty of you have probably already seen this. But it's a good reminder that Love and Hope is something we all need to make the world a better place.
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