Prince Henry's test results came back yesterday, and he got a clean bill of health. He got to fly with everyone else for the first time. Sir Dubbins freaked out and had to go back to his cage, but the budgies didn't seem mind him much. None of the budgies approached him too closely, but it was evident Skye wanted to. We're not going to have Prince Henry and Sir Dubbins out at the same time until they get a little more used to the idea of each other.

I went to a equinox dinner yesterday at lady_babalon's and sophiaserpentia's. I must say that sophiaserpentia makes the most excellent apple crisps. I was happy to see that x_bluerose_x was there to. We sat around the table and discussed what we viewed as our "harvests" this year, however I'm more planning for the spring then harvesting now. Of course, there were other topics, but that was the planned topic. I wish I could have stayed longer, but I had fun while I was there.

After leaving the equinox dinner, I went over to merryperseis's place, where I ate again. I knew that we would be having roasted cauliflower, so I intentionally ate sparingly at the early dinner. I brought her my serpent staff. I've known that my bird staff is what I'm meant to use at this point, and merryperseis told me she needed something that symbolized a serpent: so the transfer seemed right. I wanted to do it on the equinox for balance. There wasn't really any ceremony about the transfer, it was just done.

The pots have been clanged! The water has been thrown! 2007 welcome and I hope it brings us all good things!

strobe light
loud music
turn down
but not off
i saw exploding circles earlier
and posiden
and ritual people in a forest
caring staffs
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trauma x
here we are
floating
not thinking so much
purity of thought
moving
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i appear to be doing three dots three dots three dots again
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will i rebel?
will i slip in an extra dot just to be different?
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purity of experience
i love purity of experience
it's just you and i here
hello
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how are you?
where do you find yourself now?
why are you here?
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what am i doing here?
i'm just sitting here
that is what i am doing
traveling down the page
typing my where somewhere
i'm a bit lost
and don't know where i'm going at the moment
but i'm sure i'll find something interesting
always do
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i need to get some acid
pot and the strobe light are one thing
but with acid i think i could break through all this
this
this clutter
meant to distract me
i know
i designed it
i just have to figure out why
but i designed it specifically to hide why
which is very annoying
but i have played this game for many years now
i know how it works
i need some acid
make a few adjustments to the rules
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where am i?
in someplace else
i'm not in the outer "reality"
but i'm communicating with it
are you there?
or are you here?
still reading
wondering if i'll rebel
add that forth dot
leave one off
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maybe i won't
maybe by not rebelling today i'll be different
i'll rebel by not rebelling
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my foot is asleep
i can't move
i am frozen
only my fingers and eyes have movement
everywhere else
i'm frozen
where are the doors
i don't have to move to reach them
i can move the doors toward me instead
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good journey

I was flipping through my orange journal and ran across a happy memory. It was written the afternoon after Gerette and I went skinny dipping.

August 6th, 2000 1:00pm The ritual went extremely well. Clover didn't go, but that was okay. We were able to cleanse Gerette's tainted items and break the hex. After the ritual, Gerette and I went skinny dipping. It was fun. I've never done that before. I made Gerette turn around while I was out of the water so she wouldn't see me. Gerette left the water first, after which I swam to the middle of the pond. It was so nice sitting in the middle of the quiet water with a slight mist obscuring the shore, staring up at the pinhole stars while the occasional meteor would streak by. It was just me and the water and the sky. No one else, nothing else. Just me alone in the universe.

I want to go skinny dipping there again. Unfortunately, Lake won't drive to the pond, me and Gerette aren't getting along anymore, and I don't know anyone else who both has a car and is interested.