Life Get's in the Way

Life gets in the way of documenting life...?! Yeah, it's true. I now have a small backlog of stuff that I want to add here. Stories and pictures soon to come. But in the meantime, just checking in - with myself mostly. We are in the latter part of February and things in my life are chugging along at a just beginning to thaw pace. Work is slowly starting to come my way. New people. New experiences appear as a train in the distance. I am waiting at the station. Quite patiently, I am waiting. I know that when the train finally gets here that everyone rides. I am looking forward to the ride as it will be a good one, with a good time had by all. Anyway, Life Get's in the Way of the documentation of Life... sometimes that isn't a bad thing. The sun is out and it is slightly warmer than it was yesterday... I am smiling and waiting at the station.

Tuesday Darts

Darts will be throw tonight at Big Dawgs in Atlantic. I am sub to the sub to the sub or something like that... I may actually just be cheering and eating popcorn. My favorite thing to do at the bar is people watching, hours of entertainment. I will admit to feeling like that scrawny kid sitting on the bench hoping that the coach will look his way. In time I suppose. I am having a pretty fantastic day so far though. I went into Channel 10 to transfer more Super8 film to video - came home and did some body art with Teresa... After eating a small mound of spaghetti a piece we did some drawing with make-up pencils and lipstick on each other... we laughed a lot, I feel quite blessed to be in a relationship with someone where there is joy and laughter. It makes even a really bad day not so bad after all.

Dropping Cards with Teresa and Kit

I dropped some cards with Kit (the fuzzy one below) the other day... she reads the cards like a pro... because she is... actually Teresa helped... we more or less read for each other. Part practice, and part because we actually needed to figure some things out... I love working with the cards. My current favorite deck is something called The Cosmic Tribe Deck. It would be like if you went to a Rainbow Gathering and Burning Man Gathering and said I want you, you, you, you, to be on my cards. There are three Lovers cards... two women, two men, and a woman and man... reminding one that love comes in many different persuasions. Anyway, we got some much needed answers on emotions and plans in progress and how to proceed. I have no problem reading for myself and interpretting the results - I get a little less than confident when reading for others however... I am working on that. Teresa is really good at connecting the dots of symbolism and meaning in the cards... she takes that and works intuitively from there... she will use several decks at once. Teresa will do a reading and in the end there will be 20 or 30 cards from different decks on the table - and it will all make sense... in an AH-HA kind of way. I like runes, a lot. I am also trying to find some non-traditional things to use for divination. I was thinking of making a series of photographs that are fairly abstract... I figure if something as abstract as tea leaves can be read... why not photographs.

Darts of Destiny

So, Teresa and I at the asking of Chris and Leigh have taken up darts. Actually they didn't really have to ask. The hurling of sharp objects across the room towards a tiny red dot for fun and profit... or at least an enthusiastic "Ata Boy!"... just add beer and let the good times roll... the rules and the math are a little tricky... but I know we'll get the hang of it soon. There has been much practice and many new holes in the wall. In the picture here we realized that the board may have been placed too low for Teresa. Six or seven inches up should do trick... Just kidding... we're still working on the whole aim thing .... but hey, nice cluster.

HAPPY GROUNDHOG DAY!!! Ok, I am not so so much about the Groundhog... but it is 2 February... which to some of us is also known as Candlemas, Imbolc, or in Celtic traditions Bridgit's Day. Bridgit is the Goddess of the Forge and Fire, also of Creativity... It is the beginning of the end of winter... a time to begin proparing for Spring. It is a time for reflection as the days now begin to get longer and hopefully warmer. Teresa and I did a small candle reflection to release some unwanted personal and psychic clutter... and just spent time talking about what we hope to accomplish as Spring approaches. And today there will be poetry.