... LJ tells me it's been 16 weeks since I posted last. Obviously, this is not my most used method of expression. But I do want to pass this one one to the Austin folks... as my sister already did ( Read more... )

I was saying the Serenity Prayer:

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change...
The power to change the things I can...
And the wisdom to know the difference."

And I decided it needed one more line:

"And the further wisdom of knowing that just because I CAN change something, doesn't mean I should."

I praise you for your success in being you; you praise me for my success in being me. In your purity you make me pure. In your wholeness you make me whole. In my service you serve me. I bow to all, because I bow to you.

-Hallaj: Tawasin

... in a small nutshell ( Read more... )

Who is the third who walks always beside you?
When I count, there are only you and I together.
But when I look ahead up the white road
There is always another one walking beside you
Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded
I do not know whether a man or a woman
- But who is that on the other side of you?

T.S. Eliot
'The Wasteland'

I rode out with Travis and his wife and daughter. Got there at about 12 to start prep. We collected and stacked wood, then 36 stones, and he set it on fire. Burned for about two hours. Then we prepped the Lodge, which is an igloo-shaped thing made out of willow branches. It was covered with blankets and a leather tarp. No daylight inside ( Read more... )

Seems that anytime I come across or realize a bit of Truth that works for me, I still have a hard time expressing it verbally because of all the (seemingly) necessary qualifications and explanations that I feel must be added to communicate it ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I will be participating in my first ever Sweat Lodge ( Read more... )

Key got broken off in the car door today. So I called Denise (Lynnivere's mom) and Tim (Denise's BF) to get advice, since they are Locksmiths. I was hoping to mainly find out how to get a key code so I could get a local locksmith to make a new key ( Read more... )

"I'm 80 years old now, and I don't have any friends or enemies. Everyone is my teacher ( Read more... )