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[mstar]

mstar, honey, you need to learn how to proof read and spell and just how to write right. . .sorry

[mstar]

Hey Wn! Good to read your voice. Hope you are well. All the babies look so cute.

I was also disappointed with the Brits or at least the "rags". They do not like Bush. . .you know he is Queen Elizabeth's 13th (I think it is 13th) cousin. Looks like they would be proud of a "Homeboy". That, the terrorist, Iraq, ect. put a "damper" on it for me. I was able to get in some praying time for the UK, which was good. Also I found a great Christian bookstore in Chester. When I was there four years ago I could only find one that was founded in the 1600's. They were sweet in both stores were.

Is the family ok? Hope you are all well.

[300winmag]

Lots of stuff just doesn't make sense in the world anymore does it?

"Stockholm Syndrome" on a global scale.

[mstar]

They were sweet in both stores were.

Now what in heck does that mean, "in both stores were". . .sorry again. Maybe I am just not as "with it" as I thought.

[Sam Cree]

Good morning, everyone.

Does anyone know what a sweat lodge is?

Just found out I have a new neighbor, she's gonna build one the other side of my back fence, and have a ceremony once a month.

Sounds like she takes a less traveled path, but I think that's actually a requirement to live in this neighborhood, everyone around is kind of batty.

[ecurbh]

A Sweat Lodge

[JenB]

Oh dear. A sweat lodge? Yuck. It's like a sauna with lower standards.

[Sam Cree]

OK, thanks, now I understand.

Jen, I think there was a sweat lodge described in "The Barsoom Project" by Larry Niven and Steve Barnes. The Indians were smoking dope in the thing, if memory serves. Won't surprise me if the same happens with this one.

Oh well, I guess a sweat lodge is preferable to the previous owner, who had 3 horses, thousands of flies and a parrot farm. This neighbor promises to build a wooden fence for privacy, which sounds sligtly helpful. Hopefully she is not trying to hide something too completely weird.

[HairOfTheDog]

We are going off to find an adventure today.... Not sure where we are going but we are bored.

If we don't keep our feet, there is no knowing where we may end up!

see ya all later!

[mstar]

Our altar usually has sweet grass on the pipe holder

yeah I beat.

At later sweats I've heard the beavers come out and slap their tails on the water, and the coyote's crying in the night. This seems to me to support the spot that we chose was a good one.

At this point the styles diverge somewhat. Traditional sweats aren't usually done "sky-clad", and most new age sweats (at least in the Rainbow Family tradition) are done naked.

In a traditional sweat, there is more guided prayer, chanting, and drumming. I've also been in sweats that were 100% silent. I like both, and appreciate them for their differences.Each round lasts around 45 minutes or so,

This one was in the mountains of Colorado, in Pike National Forest at Wigwam. There was a large pit pit near by. and one night folks were sweating during a huge drum jam. The sweat was vibrating with the sound of all the drumming.

I think that's actually a requirement to live in this neighborhood, everyone around is kind of batty

Sam, is it too late to move?

[Sam Cree]

"Sam, is it too late to move?"

I've been here for something like 13 years. It's a beautiful tiny neighborhood (of about 14 houses), on the rock ridge, with old live oaks, lots of palmettos, birds singing. It was full of longleaf pines, but every one was killed by Andrew. But the vegetation is still so thick that the houses are hidden from each other.

In short, it's a little oasis of serenity and old Dade County jungle, hidden right in the middle of modern Miami suburbia. That's probably what brings the weirdos, though. I may not be exactly the most normal person in the world myself, for that matter.

[mstar]

sounds lovely. . .maybe they will move or improve. Wish you the best.

[mstar]

Ok here are the shots from Oxford and some from the UK. Aimee' only did it as a link. Hope it come out ok. Cheers!

http://www.morningstar-rising.com/uk.html

[Sam Cree]

That's really cool, Mstar.
I'd love to have a pint in there, even if it is that flat English beer (that I quess hobbits like).

I suppose there must still be support for us in the UK, after all, Tony Blair is still the PM, I think.

Anyhow, I like the UK, feel a kinship to it.

OTOH, I think English culture, which is the cradle of individual freedom, (which includes American culture, really) could be fading away, and ours along with it, just as Tolkien's Oxfordshire countryside faded. And, of course, as Tolkien's elves faded and left, to be followed, eventually by Middle Earth itself.

[ExGeeEye]

I'm looking forward to getting home to the tape I set up for the Cavuto/Kerry repeat and the Rice-ness...she did well, according to the comments on the live thread running at the time, and from fragments of Rush during the lunch dragrace...

RotK runs another week in one of the local CineMultiOmniGigaPlexes! WooHoo!

[JenB]

How many times have you been so far?

[My back yard]

How totally cool!!!

[ExGeeEye]

I almost stepped on a deer once. At high noon. Dangedest thing.

[My back yard]

I think English culture, which is the cradle of individual freedom, (which includes American culture, really) could be fading away, and ours along with it, just as Tolkien's Oxfordshire countryside faded. And, of course, as Tolkien's elves faded and left, to be followed, eventually by Middle Earth itself.

Gosh I'm so depressed now. Not a complaint, really. You are so right. I need to go back into my happy place. ;)

[ExGeeEye]

7 or 8, I dunno...gotta see the Battle of the Pelennor one more time on the big screen before it shrinks to fit my 1978-model 27"...