At 07:08 PM 8/19/2008, you wrote:
Marsha:
> I charm the pants of young and old, and love them all.
> That's not what I mean.
> I do the best that I can.
SA: I know you do the best you can. I can tell by your posts. Not
only your gumption, but your ability to sustain the clarity in your gumption.
Marsha:
> I miss full-moon nights around the fire. Drums beating,
> sparks raising, chanting... Orion lying low in the sky.
> You, my friend, are a treasure.
SA: "Orion lying low in the sky", that's a great memory. I
remember nights where I saw that. Isn't that later at night? It's
been awhile and where I live now, the only part of the sky I see is
straight up with the hills and trees in the way. I used to live
where fields mixed with woods and the horizon was far and wide. I
would see the sun clearly come up and go down. Now when I see the
sun the day is into the middle of morning or late afternoon
still. I feel a kinship with you and I don't like making promises,
especially with visitations, but my wife and I want to somebody
visit Maine and you location would be along the way. It would be
some years from now before we do probably, but it is a thought that
is crossing my mind. Of course our son would be with us. He'll be
two in September. I don't want to impede or say something out of
place by bringing this up. The thought of it though does suggest to
me that you too would be good company to visit as a good friend.
Two separate events. The pagan community is great for fire/drum
circles. These people mostly are very connected to Nature, and
celebration is always around a season or the moon. It's
refreshing. I also would attend a Rites of Spring celebration in
Western Massachusetts with the EarthSpirit people. Every night an
all-night fire-drum circles. I am so a fire-person, and these
circles were just wonderful. I'd sometimes stay up all night.
http://www.earthspirit.com/index.html
Also, from the area and local university, a group would meet every
full-moon at a local park. A small hike up a hill into the woods,
and then there would be a fire, drumming, chanting, story-telling and
etc. They were mostly young, but not all. This is where I got the
shrooms. Didn't ingest at these events, but home where I prepared a
proper ceremony per my personal preferences.
I would like to meet everyone on this list. It would be nice to have
you and your family visit. I like the idea of talking face to
face. Just please give me a couple days notice.
Ron, your closer, and I sometimes think about a visit with
you somewhere too.
I've fallen into a very fortunate situation where the cost of
day care was taking over 95% of my paycheck and my wife recently
got the job of her childhood dreams, so, I'm a stay at home
father. Today was my last day at work.
This is great. My son is able to spend time with his son. He's an
attentive father. It's wonderful. Hurray for you, your wife and
your little boy.
My first course of intention is to visit the family relations that I
usually only see once or twice a year during the holidays for an
afternoon. I want to help strength the bonds of the family. We all
live pretty far from each other. Not too far, but far enough that
visiting frequently turns into a big effort. I'm a big family
person, and I've checked into the family heritage and where people
have come from the clothes they used to wear and such, and now I
want to give back, contribute somehow as to give gratitude to my
family for the love I feel for them. Now is my chance.
I left my family home when I was very young. I'm from Michigan, but
have been living in CT since I was eleven. I keep in touch mainly
through memories. My mother is now the family matron and does still
connect with all my cousins. Yes. Love.
Marsha:
> Bo and Ham are great. I've learned from both of them.
> They both
> care. They have a different MOQ point-of-view from mine.
> That's
> fine. I like diversity. They both make me think. And I
> do like to think.
> But that biology-thing is pretty cool too.
SA: I've been pushed aside by them too much, and they don't try to
mend events. Even though I have for years with them. I don't
know. You've softened my heart Marsha, thanks. I needed that.
I doubt that you needed that from me. You wrote "love everyone you
meet". Maybe that seems hard to do when you're looking at a monitor
and discussing philosophy, but it doesn't need to be.
As to the biology-thing? The woods provide a way for me to
think. The quiet woods are the diamond [aka diamond (quiet) sutra
(woods)]. Maybe that clears this up a bit. It's all about thinking
for ourselves, being creative, and as we have more and more time in
this creative spirit of the summer woods, as I pointed out to my
wife who while on a walk, we stopped by a flowing stream to give our
son a moment to play in the small trickling of water, my wife
started to weave cattail leaves for the fun of it - spontaneously -
it is wonderful indeed what we can do to keep with the
beautification of this world if given a little bit of time.
I think you must be a writer, and I like what you bring to this
forum. I sometimes think you are not real, but a character you've
invented. That would still be you, but a created you. That's my
imagination. Well, we all create ourselves. We pull together many
of these patterns.
I haven't been hiking in a very long time. I've been thinking I want
to get my grandson on a trail. I've taken him around his yard to
explore the trees, plants & animals. I taught him the word 'tree'
when he was a baby. It was so interesting. Tree, trunk, branches,
bark, leaves, green leaves, red leaves, insects living in tree, birds
resting in tree, birdhouse in tree, sticks from the tree, and even
peeing at tree (only once). We learn together.
This is philosophy too. I think that's what you've been
suggesting. Not just the mental work, living itself.
Have any of you guys been riding this season? I miss being on the
back of a bike. My heart beats fast every time I see a biker. And I
was totally envious of that 84-year-old woman who still rides 'as
much as possible'.
Marsha
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Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.........
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