still alive….

have just been crazy busy.

i went to new york for five days and got to see the city all by myself. i didn’t see a broadway show, but i did see the wtc site…i felt like that was something i needed to do. i also drove down times square, saw greenwich village and soho, stayed in the slope park area of brooklyn, looked at the urban decay that exists where ebbett’s field, home of the brooklyn dodgers used to be….sad, sad, sad. in that particular instance, i was being stared at and i couldn’t figure out why. turns out i was the only white person in the immediate vacinity. i never notice stuff like that because it doesn’t matter to me.

this last weekend, there was a bellydancing event that i got to be a part of and feel privileged to have been so. adoration abounds for the sounds of solace and ruben from holland who has the most amazing drumming fingers i have ever heard. some ladies called blue damsel taught an amazing and transcendent workshop even if at least one of their students (me) felt like a retard for not keeping up so well. but they were so nice, they didn’t say anything about the retardedness. sweet ladies and funnier than hell =)

it’s been three years since people have been dying in iraq. someone from a town near that my husband knew was killed in afghanistan in a helicopter crash in the fall and his grave has no headstone on it because he was pagan and the va will not put a pentacle on his headstone. so, apparently, he was good enough to be a disposable life for his country, but not to have his spirituality honored post-humously? the logic in this country fucking kills me. i can’t even express how angry this makes me. they are nice people and pat deserves to be honored. if you want to read a bit about this go visit some of these links:

http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060313/NEWS10/603130335/1016/NEWS

http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1584012.php

http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060318/NEWS03/603180327

sometimes, i am ashamed.

quick recap….still not sure about this place, been reading and writing elsewhere, so there.

peace out, yo.