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Friday and Orixa dreams
Aug. 6th, 2005 11:33 amYesterday I got up early and made it to the gym for the second time this week. Go me. I've been shirking and sleeping in too often lately. Then Amanda came by and we workedd on my organizing project. We're getting to the stage where closet planning is coming soon!
Russell had made reservations for a tour of the Scharffen Berger factory and for dinner at Cafe Cacao. We left home about 3pm for our 4:15 tour. At about 3:30 someone from Cafe Cacao called to say they had rented out the whole restaurant and our reservations were cancelled. Excuse me! We has reservations for a week and they don't tell us they're cancelled until two hours before we're supposed to be there! I am so pissed. I could hardly sit through the tour and I certainly didn't buy anything in the shop. Not that it will hurt their bottom line, but I'm not going to buy a Scharffen Berger product again. And they sold out to Hersey anyway. Ooooh! I don't get that furious often but driving through rush hour to Berkeley for a special treat and having it snatched away was maddening.
So we cast about and decided to go to Trader Vic's. I have been wanting to eat there and see what their view is like for years. The last time I ate at a Trader Vic's was the night of my senior prom in Washington DC decades ago. The mai tai's were totally yummy and so was the food. The sun was so bright that the shades were mostly closed but the view was a marina and the bay and is probably quite pretty. I was struggling with the quantity in my taro nest filled with scallops, shrimp and fish when Erika talked to Dragon and he said he hadn't eaten and thought that sounded good. So I had a boxed up and gave it to him. This is the first time we've seen his house. Wow! I love the deep, rich jeweltone colours they've painted the walls. We had a lovely visit about visiting Amsterdam and many other topics. It was fun.
This morning Russell & Erika took off for summer camp and I really need to get up and head for Concord to help plan the House anniversary bembe later this month. It is so hot that I really don't want to put clothes on!
Speaking of Umbanda...
This week before sleep I have been asking the Cigana Velha I'm supposed to be talking to if she has any dreams for me. No sign of her but I have a dream from Oxossi and from Ogum.
Oxossi just sent one of the fairly usual "running through the saw grass" visions that seem to be a staple of working with him. I'm basically following him through very tall grass on tiny animal tracks. I don't know if we're hunting, travelling or what. We're just running together.
Ogum had a lot more to say. I finally figured out that the Ogum I horse is a kind of "tinker" Ogum. He is an itinerant fixer of tools. I had been thinking of learning to knit mail or something so I'd have something for him to do. He is always pushing me to *do* when he is in me. He really wants a rasp so he can sharpen shovels "especially those of Oko's children" and he wants more tools and things to fix. I have gotten the rasp request before, so I guess I'll get him one. I got the feeling he thought we don't grow enough of our own food. I guess I'll ask folks to bring shovels and such to bembes! I also asked if jewelry repair would be okay as a "fixing" art and that works for him. That at least gives me a compact tool kit to get together.
Russell had made reservations for a tour of the Scharffen Berger factory and for dinner at Cafe Cacao. We left home about 3pm for our 4:15 tour. At about 3:30 someone from Cafe Cacao called to say they had rented out the whole restaurant and our reservations were cancelled. Excuse me! We has reservations for a week and they don't tell us they're cancelled until two hours before we're supposed to be there! I am so pissed. I could hardly sit through the tour and I certainly didn't buy anything in the shop. Not that it will hurt their bottom line, but I'm not going to buy a Scharffen Berger product again. And they sold out to Hersey anyway. Ooooh! I don't get that furious often but driving through rush hour to Berkeley for a special treat and having it snatched away was maddening.
So we cast about and decided to go to Trader Vic's. I have been wanting to eat there and see what their view is like for years. The last time I ate at a Trader Vic's was the night of my senior prom in Washington DC decades ago. The mai tai's were totally yummy and so was the food. The sun was so bright that the shades were mostly closed but the view was a marina and the bay and is probably quite pretty. I was struggling with the quantity in my taro nest filled with scallops, shrimp and fish when Erika talked to Dragon and he said he hadn't eaten and thought that sounded good. So I had a boxed up and gave it to him. This is the first time we've seen his house. Wow! I love the deep, rich jeweltone colours they've painted the walls. We had a lovely visit about visiting Amsterdam and many other topics. It was fun.
This morning Russell & Erika took off for summer camp and I really need to get up and head for Concord to help plan the House anniversary bembe later this month. It is so hot that I really don't want to put clothes on!
Speaking of Umbanda...
This week before sleep I have been asking the Cigana Velha I'm supposed to be talking to if she has any dreams for me. No sign of her but I have a dream from Oxossi and from Ogum.
Oxossi just sent one of the fairly usual "running through the saw grass" visions that seem to be a staple of working with him. I'm basically following him through very tall grass on tiny animal tracks. I don't know if we're hunting, travelling or what. We're just running together.
Ogum had a lot more to say. I finally figured out that the Ogum I horse is a kind of "tinker" Ogum. He is an itinerant fixer of tools. I had been thinking of learning to knit mail or something so I'd have something for him to do. He is always pushing me to *do* when he is in me. He really wants a rasp so he can sharpen shovels "especially those of Oko's children" and he wants more tools and things to fix. I have gotten the rasp request before, so I guess I'll get him one. I got the feeling he thought we don't grow enough of our own food. I guess I'll ask folks to bring shovels and such to bembes! I also asked if jewelry repair would be okay as a "fixing" art and that works for him. That at least gives me a compact tool kit to get together.
