Recent content by JustGeorge

Onto Weather Shaman! I had started it a month ago, then lost track of it, and moved onto something else. I found it while cleaning, put it back on the shelf, and now I'll restart. (I do that a lot.)

Just finishing up Jewish Life in the Middle Ages by Israel Abrams. It was printed in 1920... some of the pages hadn't even been separated since being printed. It fascinates me that I may be the first person to read this particular copy.

My mom was okay. She did well in some areas, not well at others. She was human. My dad didn't do great. There were hard feelings for awhile, but he took steps to amend his ways, and he's come around. I'm proud of him. However, I don't have any opinion on whether or not folks should honor...

I live in a city of about 67,000 in Iowa(Midwest). Its an old industrial city, not terribly wealthy, fairly high crime rate, and definitely trashy. But, it has character, and produces characters. Racial make up is 65.8% white, 17.8% black, 7.1% Latino, 4.5% Mixed race 2.9% Asian, 1% Pacific...

That sounds amazing!

We try to include the kids in on whatever we're doing, and let them ask questions as they're interested. My oldest is 18 now, and isn't terribly interested in religion. He says his beliefs are probably Pagan, and he's strongly polytheistic, but he isn't interested in practice. The first time...

Interesting thread idea. My beliefs regarding food has cost me a lot of dinners! I suppose when I was a kid, it got me grounded for awhile(parents caved after awhile). Its sometimes caused annoyance towards me from others. Sometimes my marriage has been affected by my beliefs or resulting...

It looks delicious!

Fire is a friend. I tend to give it the respect of a living entity. It lives in my stove, my furnace... Keeps me well fed and warm. I honor fire in entities that embody it. The Mahabharata has stories of Agni. He's said to live within us in the form of digestive 'fire', and there are...

Shortly after waking, something popped in my head... "Thank you, George, but our princess is in another castle." Here we go again...

I saw one of the kids play it, and thought it looked okay...

I didn't find it scary(nor did she). (I didn't have the 'full experience', though.) My husband was terrified, though.

For me, the land dropping off left the biggest impression. I drove and drove and the land went on, and on...and all the sudden, it was gone. And all there was was... nothing. (Water.)

Happy New Years!

I've been in a similar situation... its hard to put into words. You know someone's coming to 'sit'. You feel it. You can mentally 'nod' your consent, and the extent of it(there are partial and full possessions). Some consider it a valid part of their spiritual path. I'd say he's a friend...