The ritual of the lights

This time of year when the time changes always brings on feelings that are dark and foreboding. Here where I live it gets dark now at 4 :45 or close to it.

My ritual of candle lighting begun winter when I first moved here with Daisy, if not already in full swing, begins suddenly to be most important.




I have all my Catholic candles in the hallway together much like they are in the churches, and I consider them votives to stand watch over my concerns when I am unable to do so because I am preoccupied with other duties. I have about 20 of them there in the hallway, and they are bright and warm, taking the chill of the air.


In the front window of the foyer I have 3 candles glowing and they shine out onto the dark world through architectural glass bricks.

In the living room there are a host of other candles, and the dining room has at least one, and three oil lamps are also lit.

We usually go round nights together lighting them, and instantly feel the chill go out of the air.


When it comes time to go to bed, I lean over each candle in complete privacy, and say a prayer for whomever comes to my mind; children, victims of disasters, prisoners, the poor, the hungry, the destitute, the misunderstood, the lonely, the hungry, those who have it all, those who are lost, friends, family, acquaintances.

YouÂ…are probably being prayed for, the love goes out, and surely it reaches you!

Hardly worth mentioning...But

This, "was, " my wedding anniversary date. I was married, well, way too many years to mention here, and when I add up how long I would have been married had I stayed married, well, that is .....


Life is certainly strange, I cannot separate myself from those years, and those people I was related to at that time, even though they have not been in my life since I left, really. Such a part of who I am, and yet it seems so empty, and hollow, a place inside me where there is no access to those folks anymore, just as there is no access to my own family of origin that have passed on anymore.

Both leave a different kind of hollow feeling inside.

I wonder how many other people have these feelings stirring inside?

Pumpkin Patch

Here we are at the pun kin patch again this year. I see grown kids only today. Usually these fields are packed with families and excited kids, but it is a weekday and school is not out yet.
Tonight is Halloween.

My new kitty has already been trained for tonight, to sit in the front window so kids can see him there, a black cat, looking out on the night. ( Oh he wishes he were outside, but we can't let him out yet).
He is a funny cat., very smart, talks to us and tells us he wants food, out, water, curtain opened, etc.
I brush him a few times a day, and clean him with cat wipes. He is a handsome, devil! Still no name for him yet, Hmm?
We carved punkins by the fireplace and set them out and the kids came and one scared me when I opened the door. We had a lot of fun tonight, I baked chocolate pies for us to eat, and we had a fire and waited for the kids to come.
My cat is still sitting in the window waiting for more kids to entertain him. What a precious!

Unconscious Muttterings

Play what is your response?

Unbreakable:: unlikely

Have mercy:: be kind

Do it better:: practice

Settle scores:: vindicate

Comments:: suggestions

Craziest thing:: non fiction

Apple:: blossoms

Halloween:: costume

Manageable:: resources

Trick:: game

Skating on a fall day,,,and Bebbie

Audioblogg on trail skating....... I am on the trail in Snohomish. It is beautiful as I skate through light flashing through the leaves, and leaves falling on the trail in front of me. The wind is invigorating, cool, very pleasant. Nothing else seems to exist at least momentarily, and I am happy for a break in time!

Today I am thinking about my Kentucky friend who calls me sherrycoddle and I call her Bebbie, ( about Bebbie
idosyncratic Deb ) because we have decided to be sisters, and I have never had one, so it is so sweet to have sweet names for each other and feel I do have a sister. It is really fun for me, and I don't feel as lonely for a sibling anymore!
So Bebbie, hi! Take care, have a fun halloween..hope you go to a costume party, I wish I were , but I'm not, soo.. you have fun for me, and I will hand candy out to goblins at my door!

I take my kitty to the vet in a few hours, his nose is all stopped up and he feels terrible. Wow, I never had a sick cat before! He must have been sick at the shelter! Poor thing.
I will keep you posted.

YOU! Yes you....Help me name my new kitty cat!

Please go here to see the incredible beautiful Rialto Beach , ( of Washington's coast) and Dungeness River and Royal Creek convergence shots. Click for full sizes. It's like being there..almost!


Kitty: I adopted him yesterday, he is 2 years old. He is very smart, and gentle, and cuddly. I am sure I have not experienced much of him yet, however, since he began sneezing on the way home, and he doesn't feel well.

He is supposed to be playful, and funny, too.

I love him so much already, but feel bad for his sneezing.

Anyone know why he would start sneezing so suddenly? He wasn't doing it at the shelter...that I know of.
Anyway, last night I heard a crash, and went into the hallway where the rug was askew and into the Reiki room where the work table was taken down and set on the floor, it had fallen over, and he skedaddled, I guess.
Must have been exploring in the night.

The rest of the night he slept with me. Any good name suggestions? Sneezy?

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

The artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude were born Gemini-like at the same hour on June 13, 1935, he in Gabrovo, Bulgaria as Christo Javacheff of an industrialist family and she in Casablanca, Morocco as Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon of a French military family. Christo studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Sofia from 1953-56 and escaped from Prague to the West in early 1957.

Umbrellas of Jean Claude and Christo

Running Fence

Tonight's fog bank

Click on photo.
Beginning:

A family visiting the beach in the fog:

Sun setting in fog:


Other nature photos from the Pacific NW These open full size

Unconscious Mutterings

Nimbostratusland this morning:















Found on Windstorms blog...

1. Infiltration:: sneak attack by cat
   
2. Nice person:: acting or is?
   
3. Debt:: karmic
   
4. Settle down:: If you want, you can marry! ( lyrics by Cat Stevens)
   
5. Thomas:: Old friend
   
6. Unforgivable:: unforgettable
   
7. Medicine:: love
   
8. A year from now:: I will still be THAT!
   
9. Neighbors:: Gone South
   
10. Dripping:: sky
    

Play Unconscious mutterings

Horoscopes by Linda * while biking and skating

My friend Linda (pictured here on bike, and heard on audioblog) lives in Snohomish at the farm where I lived for 3 years many years ago. The farm is a shared home situation, (5 people live there). it's a great place to live, on 5 acres with a view of Mt Rainier.

Many of us from the farm do things together, and today Linda and I are out at the trail skating (me) and she is biking.

Linda is a very talented and insightful astrologer. She delivers her insights in a way that is very appealing. Here on this audioblogg that I am putting her up to, she is talking generally about astrology, and she gives her e-mail address for a 5 minute consult.
peopleshare@msn.com
Include in e-mail; your full name, date of birth, place of birth, hour of birth if you know it, and phone so she can call you with a reading. Or e-mail her with questions.

Enjoy the audioblog and photos below, Click on photos for full page shots.
PS. Scroll down in my blog for: "How to wear your blog," it is posted beneath,"Wear your blog to work day." Have fun!

Snohomish Trailhead
Skater and runner in parking lot area.
people on horseback, too!
Linda on phone blogging on horoscopes. My poor friends, what I put them through!
Your personal audioblogging astrologer at work!
A piece of Washington Sky, under which I skate!