.....Tastes good with Ketchup
I have been so unbelievably busy this month that I have not really been able to post anything directly substantial to what is actually going on in my life or head.
Now it is time to play catch up.
Where to begin?
I suppose I can start from the beginning of this month.
I knew this would be an interesting month because I pay attention to the signs of the times...or my times. The month started off with an interesting magazine coming in the mail from my good friend Irreverant Reverend Adam GoRightly. I have been doing some research on Charles Manson and the Process Church of Final Judgement and its bizarre links to Kerry Thornley, Oswald, JFK, MLK, and Scientology (respectively with Hubbard, and ties to Parsons, Grant and Crowley of course). He sent me a wonderful little magazine covering some of his recent writings on the subject. The magazine he sent me was entitled Paranoia- The Conspiracy & Paranormal Reader.
I had been on Adam's show Untamed Dimensions and had been corresponding with him and reading his blog and The Prankster and the Conspiracy. He has also hosted One of my Favorite Bishops and Dear Friends, Allen Greenfield. We are going to have to go with him to Mothman festival next year. Let's all pencil that into our calendars, Shall we? Over the last few months I have enjoyed talking with him and believe him to be someone I can ask anything that may float into th e boundaries of my collective pool.
I have so much of October left, I suppose I should move on down the line here.
I started classes with the Art Institute for web design and this has taken up most of my time during the day when my son is at school. I have decided to take a break this afternoon and let my humble readers know what was going on in my life.
For my birthday on the 7th (thanks all of you who remembered and wished me a happy birthday), we headed out to a pumpkin and gourd farm to celebrate with my son. My son has been very ill the last few years and we have not been able to enjoy many outside activities until the last few months. My husband who is a YANKEE has never really experienced the southern style of Halloween traditions. So we enjoyed a hayride in an old cotton trailer pulled by a large tractor. I was relieved when I saw that we would be caged in. There is always that fear of your little one or yourself falling off the side of a trailer. We also enjoyed frollicking through a corn maze (hail Ceres) and fairy tale adventure forest. My son had the normal fears of a 4 year old. I kept telling him that the decorations were only plywood painted to look scary and the monsters were latex masked stuffed with newspapers. That didn't seem to convince him. I thought to myself that Disney World's haunted mansion and Twilight Zone Tower of Terror were a whole lot more frightening than this hillbilly pumpkin park but perhaps he just didn't like the vibes there. He managed to get through those rides with out even a tear. We ended up going on to more pleasant activities such as petting and feeding the goats (Hail Pan!) and riding the horses (hail Poseidon). We ended the day by picking out a few pumpkins to take home that we have yet to carve.
That just covers the first week of October....
We went to the world premiere of the Abbey of Thelema on the 15th in St. Louis and met the cast and crew and hung out with the Producer and his wife, Vincent and Elaine Jennings. I love their company and they are good friends of mine. The next day we met some online friends and their son at a restaurant and enjoyed good conversation with
lakinicoyote and
myinnerlizard.
We found out some great news on our last visit to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, the place
where my son receives his treatments. We were given his last road map of weekly chemotherapy. He will
not receive any more spinal chemo therapy treatments. I have been waiting for this day. He will also be
going off 2 more medicines Dexamethasone (which is a cortisteroid that causes bad mood swings and my son
to sprout horns) and Vincristine (which causes severe leg and bone pain). We also found out that we will
finish in October of 2008.
We went to Atlanta and stayed with some friends at Kwan Yin House and our Hostess was most gracious.
I was able to meet some very spiritual people that I hope that we will be able to work with on many future spiritual
workings. I was also ordained as a Bishop in M-M by Brother
tausirhasirim along with Brother Khalid
But I will write more about this adventure in detail later. We finished up the weekend with attendance to the Dalai
Lama Peace talks in Centennial Park and a movie premiere of the Abbey of Thelema in Atlanta.
So as you can all see this has been a very busy month for us all.
I am glad to be home but am missing all the new friends
that I have made this month.
Now it is time to play catch up.
Where to begin?
I suppose I can start from the beginning of this month.
I knew this would be an interesting month because I pay attention to the signs of the times...or my times. The month started off with an interesting magazine coming in the mail from my good friend Irreverant Reverend Adam GoRightly. I have been doing some research on Charles Manson and the Process Church of Final Judgement and its bizarre links to Kerry Thornley, Oswald, JFK, MLK, and Scientology (respectively with Hubbard, and ties to Parsons, Grant and Crowley of course). He sent me a wonderful little magazine covering some of his recent writings on the subject. The magazine he sent me was entitled Paranoia- The Conspiracy & Paranormal Reader.
I had been on Adam's show Untamed Dimensions and had been corresponding with him and reading his blog and The Prankster and the Conspiracy. He has also hosted One of my Favorite Bishops and Dear Friends, Allen Greenfield. We are going to have to go with him to Mothman festival next year. Let's all pencil that into our calendars, Shall we? Over the last few months I have enjoyed talking with him and believe him to be someone I can ask anything that may float into th e boundaries of my collective pool.
I have so much of October left, I suppose I should move on down the line here.
I started classes with the Art Institute for web design and this has taken up most of my time during the day when my son is at school. I have decided to take a break this afternoon and let my humble readers know what was going on in my life.
For my birthday on the 7th (thanks all of you who remembered and wished me a happy birthday), we headed out to a pumpkin and gourd farm to celebrate with my son. My son has been very ill the last few years and we have not been able to enjoy many outside activities until the last few months. My husband who is a YANKEE has never really experienced the southern style of Halloween traditions. So we enjoyed a hayride in an old cotton trailer pulled by a large tractor. I was relieved when I saw that we would be caged in. There is always that fear of your little one or yourself falling off the side of a trailer. We also enjoyed frollicking through a corn maze (hail Ceres) and fairy tale adventure forest. My son had the normal fears of a 4 year old. I kept telling him that the decorations were only plywood painted to look scary and the monsters were latex masked stuffed with newspapers. That didn't seem to convince him. I thought to myself that Disney World's haunted mansion and Twilight Zone Tower of Terror were a whole lot more frightening than this hillbilly pumpkin park but perhaps he just didn't like the vibes there. He managed to get through those rides with out even a tear. We ended up going on to more pleasant activities such as petting and feeding the goats (Hail Pan!) and riding the horses (hail Poseidon). We ended the day by picking out a few pumpkins to take home that we have yet to carve.
That just covers the first week of October....
We went to the world premiere of the Abbey of Thelema on the 15th in St. Louis and met the cast and crew and hung out with the Producer and his wife, Vincent and Elaine Jennings. I love their company and they are good friends of mine. The next day we met some online friends and their son at a restaurant and enjoyed good conversation with
lakinicoyote and
myinnerlizard.
We found out some great news on our last visit to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, the place
where my son receives his treatments. We were given his last road map of weekly chemotherapy. He will
not receive any more spinal chemo therapy treatments. I have been waiting for this day. He will also be
going off 2 more medicines Dexamethasone (which is a cortisteroid that causes bad mood swings and my son
to sprout horns) and Vincristine (which causes severe leg and bone pain). We also found out that we will
finish in October of 2008.
We went to Atlanta and stayed with some friends at Kwan Yin House and our Hostess was most gracious.
I was able to meet some very spiritual people that I hope that we will be able to work with on many future spiritual
workings. I was also ordained as a Bishop in M-M by Brother
tausirhasirim along with Brother Khalid
But I will write more about this adventure in detail later. We finished up the weekend with attendance to the Dalai
Lama Peace talks in Centennial Park and a movie premiere of the Abbey of Thelema in Atlanta.
So as you can all see this has been a very busy month for us all.
I am glad to be home but am missing all the new friends
that I have made this month.