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A gathering after the Funeral
One of becka_kitty and chipster's Fire-spinning friends, Lohr, has graciously opened his home for a gathering after the funeral. The wake will start shortly after the service has concluded. If you are unable to attend the funeral please feel free to come to the wake.
Our church group, the Temple of Hagia Sophia is coordinating the event and ( Read more... ) -
Very Sad News
Dearest friends and family,
It is with a heavy heart that I write this post.
Tonight, on the way to the post-revel following an SCA event in Hannibal, MO,
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What Do You Have To Say? - Arts & Crafts: My Inspiration
From the sights around me a random bits of conversation that turn into pictures in my brain. -
What I'd like to accomplish
Last night I was thinking about what I want to accomplish in the next few months. I thought I'd share my list of projects.
Writing more for one of the four cookbooks in progress.
Designing and constructing my ready to embellish goddess dolls.
Beading and embellishing my fiber art goddess dolls and jewelry.
Working on several Quilts: “Petroglyph Turtle ( Read more... ) -
What a wonderful weekend and more
I attended a wonderful workshop this weekend. It was "The Mysterious Kundalini," with Thomas Ashley-Farrand at Pathways New Age Bookstore in St. Louis. See also post by
Events kicked off with a Fire Puja (Lalita of a 1000 Powers). This was an actual Vedic Puja and the first Vedic Ceremony of any kind I had every attended. Even though much of ( Read more... ) -
Discussion Group
A new discussion group is forming and the first meeting is Friday September 8th in Maplewood. Topics that previous meetings have covered are the History of World religious and their reflections on modern religion. We have also discussion the variety of pagan and earthbased religions and how they overlap and clash.
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I’ve been very poor at posting lately. I stared Chemo on the 10th of August and have just had my second cocktail dose. Currently I get three chemo drugs and a steroid and an anti nausea medication IV through my port and I have to go in the day after chemo and get a nuelasta shot to boost my white cell count. But I also have a cream to numb the port ( Read more... ) -
Progress at last
I saw my oncologist today. He is pleased with the healing of my surgical wound. Just five days of the new treatment and improvement already. If nothing else goes wrong (knocking on wood) I will start chemo on August 10. Just six days before my birthday. Then the day after my birthday I find out if I have one or both of the Breast Cancer genes ( Read more... )