moonchildhippy
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Posted: July 23 2008, 03:25 |
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| Quote (Inkanta @ July 22 2008, 23:50) | | Quote (The Caveman @ July 22 2008, 06:57) | And i am the Eggman 
I work for Vodafone
I don't mind the town i live in but it ain't home.
I have an unhealthy interest in Salisbury catherdral (only unhealthy due my being pagan)
I have 3 wonderful daughters
My guitars all have names (as of course they should)
I smoke (although i have tried to give up many times)
I've been vegetarian for 10 years.
I don't drink alcohol (due to my being very bad at it)
I am addicted to Oldfield's music. |
Wow...I have three daughters, am a vegetarian (guess as the Eggman that makes you an ovo-lacto vegetarian?), am addicted to Oldfield's music, and absolutely love cathedrals & churches, as an earth-based spiritual seeker, too!
Other stuff:
*My daughters and I meditated alone in the circle at Stonehenge for an hour or however long they let you do that...we had to be there at (yikes--memory fades) something like 6AM.
*Didn't get to Salisbury Cathedral, sadly. I have thought about my love of churches, too, and I suspect that it's tuning into their being physical manifestations of spirituality/the god/dess(s/es) quest and that many of them are in sacred space that was special long before they were built. For example, Nauvoo, IL is such a place. There are the two major Mormon paths there, and a plethora of other religions, as well. There is something so beautiful about the land and the way the Mississippi flows in that area that feels very sacred, even without the temple overlooking the River, and other churches. Hergest Ridge had the same effect for me. I don't think that you have to be in any particular place to connect to the great mystery or to pursue spirituality or to feel "spiritual," but I am totally overwhelmed by some places.
*Visited Machu Picchu to study Inkaic astronomy--not for any spiritual encounter. But it happened, just the same. It wasn't the thin air, cos MP is actually only around 7500 ft. compared to Cuzco's nearly 13,000.
*Was blown away by Glastonbury. We hiked to the Tor.
*Am going crazy over the distance between my bf and me (he lives off the coast of Vancouver Island) and the uncertainty of when we can see each other is making me climb walls. His island feels very sacred--so many ancient, old-growth trees.
*I talk to pets, wild animals, and trees. Yesterday evening I ran by a bunny rabbit, talking to her & she didn't run from me.
*Yoshiki, our cat, says "hello" when introduced to people.
*I love moonlight, too, bee, and feel such a mysterious connection to the moon. Someday it will carry me away. |
I did try going veggie but lasted about 2 weeks, I'm slightly anaemic so I do need my iron, however I bulk out meaty dishes with veg. I do try and go for free range meat if I can afford it.
I agree on churches/cathedrals, as well as being masterpieces of architectural engineering, I do feel that they are very spiritual places too, they've all been built on ancient Pagan sites of worship, I agree about Hergest Ridge, that was a very spiritual place for me, and possibly a life changing experience, as shortly afterwards I got myself out of a relationship that had run its course, (I remain friends with my ex husband), I do give him credit for the courage he has in handling his MS.
Oh yes whilst o the subgect of relationships, Inkanta I feel for you, New York to Vancouver Island must be some distance. I know how it feels, and I live 60 miles from my boyfriend.
Weird how some things feel they're trying to tell you something,
lety me explain. In 2000 I ended up going on holiday to Devon with my parents, yep a mistake maybe, cos at 29 you don't really want to go on holiday with your parents,thought I needed a break from mydisabled then husband and on holiday they seemed to argue all the time. Anyway I visited the South Devon Railway, and GWR 14xx no.1420 is preserved there, and she was in charge or the trains that day. When I went to Kington I bought a book on the Kington area railways and I found out 1420 spent most of her working life at Kington, until the station closed for freight in 1964, having closed to passengers some years earlier.
Here's 1420 enjoying preservation, doesn't she look great painted in British Railways Black
 http://www.southdevonrailway.org/1420.html
Another weird thing, about going places, I went to see Show Of Hands at "Warwick Arts Centre" in Coventry in Nov '06, and shortly after this I met my boyfriend, quite what this has to do with the story you may wonder. Coventry is in Warwickshire (or at least it was until boundary changes, made it a district of the West Midlands), and little did I know when I went to see SoH the big part Warwickshire was to play in my life, well my boyfriend is from Warwickshire.
, and it was indirectly thanks to tubularboard member "avellaina" that I met him online   .
Oh yes Bee I didn't used to like driving on motorways at first, but now prefer them to other roads.
I agree with moonlight , I love the moon too, hence my name. I'm a Cancerian and in some ways I llive up to that, but not in others, oh yes with Cancerian females, you can't be sure if you're getting a gentle Moon Maiden or a Wild Loony Bird, I think I hover between the two, but more disposed to the latter
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I'm going slightly mad,
It finally happened, I'm slightly mad , just very slightly mad
If you feel a little glum to Hergest Ridge you should come.
I'm challenging taboos surrounding mental health
"Part time hippy"
I'M SUPPORTING OUR SOLDIERS
BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!!
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So I`m spent up and ready to come home that`s me done for the day..When blammo! there it is in the front window of HMV just released that week Five Miles Out..."Just hold your heading true"!...Ah man if only I`d bloody listened because there was no way on earth I was going home that day without it.The temptation was just too great to resist for a "wretch like me"...Before I knew it, it was hand on the back of my shoulder and banged up in the cells for a couple of hours.A quick phone call to my dad who had to be woke up from sleeping off the night shift to come down to the police station..(boy was he pleased about it)..And luckily for me first offence and everything I got off with a warning.I was also lucky that Mike released that album just a couple of weeks before my 16th birthday or I could`ve wound up with a permanent criminal record.Mike had started it and Mike had ended it I guess,and my aspiring artful dodger days were consigned to the walk of life dustbin.What a bloody relief I have to say. 
, If I did my son or daughter would be younger than my step grandchildren, yes I became a granny at 36, my boyfriend is nearly 12 years older than me, but still that doesn't matter when you know it's REAL LOVE 
