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Here it is Tuesday already. My shoulder pain is, I think, finally beginning to subside. *sigh* It has been a hard week and a half. Kurt gave me a ride again this morning because holding a steering wheel is one of the hard things on my shoulder.
Our set at Rakkasah went off just as planned. I don't know if the audience twigged to the fact that we danced to five different versions of Miserlou or not *grin* I bought yet another red and black Gypsy skirt but didn't do a lot of shopping. I watched some good dancers, enjoyed our troupe. It was such a blessing to leave the venue and go change at Amy's place. Just being out of the craziness for an hour was nice. I enjoy the festival but the noise level and the frenzy are wearing, esp. when one is under the weather. Russell took pictures, so hopefully I'll be able to post something later.
Monday I worked hard and then went home, took meds and fell over. I woke up and spent a little time inworld but mostly just touring. I have finding a lot of interesting sacred spaces. There is a temple sponsored by Free Tibet that offers free thangkas and meditation supplies. It is interesting that there are replicas of various places like the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris and then there are working sacred spaces that are actually meant to be used by devotees of whatever faith. There is an site where a guy is making sacred spaces but it is just an architectural exercise rather than a holy one. He has Notre Dame, a mosque, a kiva, a Hindu temple, a synagogue and a Buddhist temple so far. I had an interesting conversation with him but I admit to being slightly baffled by the impulse to build holy places that you don't expect to be used. I did get his calling card though as a potential person to help with building interfaith sacred space if the competition decides to go that way.
Duquette is working on taking down the fireplace. Yay! Our livingroom will feel bigger and that awful fieldstone facade more suited to a Ramada Inn than a 1901 home will be gone! Of course the big tv set takes up a fair bit and is hardly period. *laugh* But it will be different anyway.
I didn't manage to go to any of the candlelight vigils last night, obviously, but I would like to post the interfaith Universal Declaration on Non-Violence here as a statement of solidarity with those who managed to protest the Iraq war.
( The Incompatibility of Religion and War )
Our set at Rakkasah went off just as planned. I don't know if the audience twigged to the fact that we danced to five different versions of Miserlou or not *grin* I bought yet another red and black Gypsy skirt but didn't do a lot of shopping. I watched some good dancers, enjoyed our troupe. It was such a blessing to leave the venue and go change at Amy's place. Just being out of the craziness for an hour was nice. I enjoy the festival but the noise level and the frenzy are wearing, esp. when one is under the weather. Russell took pictures, so hopefully I'll be able to post something later.
Monday I worked hard and then went home, took meds and fell over. I woke up and spent a little time inworld but mostly just touring. I have finding a lot of interesting sacred spaces. There is a temple sponsored by Free Tibet that offers free thangkas and meditation supplies. It is interesting that there are replicas of various places like the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris and then there are working sacred spaces that are actually meant to be used by devotees of whatever faith. There is an site where a guy is making sacred spaces but it is just an architectural exercise rather than a holy one. He has Notre Dame, a mosque, a kiva, a Hindu temple, a synagogue and a Buddhist temple so far. I had an interesting conversation with him but I admit to being slightly baffled by the impulse to build holy places that you don't expect to be used. I did get his calling card though as a potential person to help with building interfaith sacred space if the competition decides to go that way.
Duquette is working on taking down the fireplace. Yay! Our livingroom will feel bigger and that awful fieldstone facade more suited to a Ramada Inn than a 1901 home will be gone! Of course the big tv set takes up a fair bit and is hardly period. *laugh* But it will be different anyway.
I didn't manage to go to any of the candlelight vigils last night, obviously, but I would like to post the interfaith Universal Declaration on Non-Violence here as a statement of solidarity with those who managed to protest the Iraq war.
( The Incompatibility of Religion and War )
