Unshared interests meme

Unshared interests meme from sbisson and brisingamen

Most of mine are interfaith and/or religion related.

amuh - American Magic Umbanda House. I really can't imagine why I'm the only one since there are folks I read here who are members (and I'm not... yet)

cooperation circles - this is the basic unit of the United Religions Initiative... another of my unshared interests

cpwr - Council for the Parliament of the World's Religions, the folks who put on the event, the Parliament of the World's Religions which is evidently too long to have as an interest.

eco-cities - self explanatory. I suspect there are folks who share the interest but used a different term.

huichol art - I especially like this art form because it is traditionally a record of otherworld journeys taken by Huichol shamans and I recognize some of the things they've seen. I love that they have a visual language of symbols about their journeys that resonates with mine.

inis glas - the tradition of Celtic Reconstructionism pioneered by Erynn Laurie. My CR practice is in the style of this tradition.

meals with friends - another undoubtably shared interest that is said in other ways.

romano-celtic archaeology (interestingly enough romano-celtic religion *is* a shared interest) - I am actually interested in pretty much all European prehistoric archaelogy... but this is what my major book buying seems to gravitate toward.

sacred connections - a Bay Area sacred sexuality group. Not too surprising that I'm the only one.

subscription dinners - This is where all the subscribers pay the price of the meal on a regular basis. I give one once a month. At mine, folks pay the cost of ingredients and bring drinks.

united religions initiative - an international interfaith organization whose purpose is to promote enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, to end religiously motivated violence and to create cultures of peace, justice and healing for the Earth and all living beings.

world peace prayer society - promoting the world peace prayer which was written in Japan after Hiroshima. In the full form one has the flags of all the nations of the world. As each flag is carried forward the people say "May there be peace among the [flag] people, May Peace Prevail on Earth". In interfaith we use flags represenating the religions of the world. The first time I heard a chapel full of people says "May there be peace among the Wiccan people, May Peace Prevail on Earth", I cried.

worldconnect - a genealogy database hosted by Rootsweb to which folks add their gedcoms. There are more than 239 million names on file at the moment and it is a great place to find cousins working on the same lines.

I did notice someone else shares my interest "visionary activism" and added her as a friend. *wry grin* It is nice to examine interests from time to time!

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cool master's project

Very cool article posted to one of my communities, infojunkies.

An MIT master's candidate, Ryan McKinley, has set up Governement Information Awareness - http://opengov.media.mit.edu/ to collect information on public officials, the way the TIA was set up to collect into on citizens. *LOL* Without the government resources behind it of course. An open source TIA as it were. :-)

I'm being fascinated by the info on my Senators, their campaign donors, etc. I'm sure I could have found all this somewhere, but I'm not sure where. Wow.

running with the hunter

AMUH's Oxossi devotional last night was interesting. Enrique, who I recently talked to at Pride, was there and is joining the house. I had a good visit with him and several other friends. It was pretty much just the regulars. :-) On to the devotion part... I have a bit of a soft spot for Oxossi, partly from having gone to the Oxossi temple in Rio and partly just because the hunter archetype appeals to me. I got an Oxossi t-shirt in Rio. But I have never done altar time with him or met him at a Bembe. So it was interesting how fast I went out for him and unlike some other Orixa, I got sensa-round with this one - I was running through a saw grass plain ringed with mountains and I would smell the scent of the ground and the green grass. I was on a path, probably an animal track, and then... he was gone. No thoughts shared, no insight into what that was all about. I wanted to talk to him during consultations but the medium carrying him switched to Xango before I had the chance. Oh well. I drove home listening to Jimmy Buffett and being happy about getting to know the Orixa and working with the House.

This morning I got here at 6am and worked for awhile until Kurt got here and we went and walked our three miles. I am still not motivated to go walking on my own but I definitely feel a sense of accomplishment about walking 3 miles at least one day a week. For so long walking around the block was inconceivable. I like this better.

Note to self - b/p on 7/7 120/80 when tech took it, doc did same a half hour later and got 130/74. *grumble* I do *not* have hypertension. Got a tetanus shot.