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Europeans thought it a good thing to clear us aboriginals from ... them coming from the clear air of industry to blame others ...
 
Greetings!

Here we are - well into the beginning of June . . . time is going by too quickly.

We have been busy at the cottage trying to do clean-up from the long winter months, yard work - to get things going, and gardening and flowers etc. We are still working on windows, by the time we get them all done we will need to go back to the beginning and start all over again :).

We are having company at the end of June and into the first week of July . . . can hardly wait - my niece and her family, and therefore my son will come for part of her visit.

Some of my perennials didn't winter very well . . . I have three bleeding hearts that didn't come up, as well as a few other plants. I will probably just fill their spaces with annuals.

Thinking of all of you . . . and the joys and challenges that have been posted here from you.
 
Tabitha said:
I have been "smudged" several times. It is a form of cleansing-of letting go. How lovely to have it at the beginning of a church service.
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Does not having a smudge at the beginning of a Christian church service seek to blend together two different faith systems?
 
I have not known smudging to trigger health incidents ChemGal ... but anyone who knows they are extremely sensitive usually is wise enough to make good judgements around participation. When I have participated, braided dried sweetgrass is used for the gentle cleansing smoke - it has a lovely scent.
 
Smudging -in my experience-involves an elder lighting a small amount of sage of sweetgrass on fire. When it is brought to you, you use your hands to scoop the smoke towards you in a pattern you allow the smoke to waft over you-thus cleansing you. That's the simple description-some folks remove rings and watches for it as they are not "natural" and again remember there is not one "native way" in Canada-many different tribes and many traditions.

So can it trigger health problems-yes- but it is less irritating to me then say incense in a Catholic or high Anglican church-or the strong aftershave or perfume of someone sitting nearby. It's like a waft of campfire smoke. You can pass on being smudged. You can also do it but not direct the smoke to your mouth and nose.
 
How! Sagacious as smoke 'n right out of here looking for unoccupied space ... devoid minds?

Always the need for something to cloud in the theory of fuzzy logos ... hairy words too hard for limited people to understand so they will incite uncontrollable bredding, breading, and population of the marketplace to excesses ... how love can destroy the world allowing for ruins and runes ...

Aboriginal habits slowing modern industrious activity? Yet still there are those exceptions that say let Luce ... and thus excessive developments we can't handle ... untouchable and ineffable! So don't say it in cynical form do a metaphriend ... and thus it wiggles ... and weaves things the stunned couldn't imagine ...
 
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Got home in record time last night, easy flight, easy day. A quiet day today, laundry, sitting with family.
Checked out the car damage from the tree branch, thankful that the spoiler protected the trunk so a relatively inexpensive fix.

Catching up on coronation street. Lots went on in two weeks. Love the wedding duds
 
The smudge didn't happen. It poured rain, and only 36 of us brave souls made it to the outdoor church service. Although we were under a shelter of sorts, the wind and pounding rain made us shiver. I was wishing I had my mittens! The scavenger hunt and children's activities we planned didn't happen. And the picnic ended before it really started. But we did manage to dive into a huge birthday cake. I'll save my scavenger hunt planning for next year...
 
Aaah, nancy, sorry to hear about the weather. That is a disappointment, but, glad you were able to adjust and have fun with what did occur. Mittens! in June? ouch.
 
Pinga said:
Aaah, nancy, sorry to hear about the weather. That is a disappointment, but, glad you were able to adjust and have fun with what did occur. Mittens! in June? ouch.
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I saw a child wearing mittens here earliere this week. Today it is over 20. We can't rely on the weather.

Sorry Nancy - your celebration sounded so well planned. I was wishing I was near enough to participate (I've taken part in smugging ceremonies led by Maliseet peeople of this area).

It seems that every time we plan an event this year (and perhaps in the future) we are going to have to tack on "weather permitting".

We have a Barbeque planned on the church parking lot for the Wednesday people on the 17th - and an end-of-the term Faith Formation gatheering at a lake-side cottage the following week.
 
Justme said:
@chansen is work going better - I saw an update but there isn't a very current one. How is your wife feeling?
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Work is busy. Put in a 12 hour day on Friday, but got a lot done. Slowly learning. Slowly coming out of the fog of the last three years. Using some of my experience to solve a couple of problems. Making some people laugh and getting their cooperation, which is how I make use of humour at work.

Wife feels fine. She's now noticeably pregnant. Further echo scan showed all the fingers and toes you would expect, and no extras. We're still upbeat and looking forward to this.
 
Tabitha said:
we have a picnic planned for next sunday after the service-a farewell to our retiring minister.
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Nice - what fun! We will have a barbeque on the last Sunday in July. It will be our church and the church we're worshipping with this summer while we're renovating our place. Next week should be interesting - our church will be open for the last Sunday before we close it to renovate but all of the pews will have been removed. For the first time, we will be sitting in chairs as we worship.
 
What a disappointment Nancy. It seems nowhere has reliable weather patterns this year. I hear too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry, too windy, too changeable! I hope Tabitha's church have good weather for their picnic and Jae's for their bbq..
 
Pr. Jae said:
Nice - what fun! We will have a barbeque on the last Sunday in July. It will be our church and the church we're worshipping with this summer while we're renovating our place. Next week should be interesting - our church will be open for the last Sunday before we close it to renovate but all of the pews will have been removed. For the first time, we will be sitting in chairs as we worship.
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Isn't that a stinking position to be in ... but there's an axiom that says you never learn nothing without experiencing a pain ... why creation provide unseen's ... a pain to those knowing God as a belief that is impossible to see while immortalized ... mixed in with a portion of mortals as an impurity ... a cooking flaw in Dianna's heaven ... a heated kit-chi 'n! Once in a whole one gets out to see what's brewing from exterior vision as searing ... a vast perspective that mortals find unreal ... abstract's ID!

Can you imagine a pair thinking negatively to provide a positive seed for moe fruit ... of the vine in de line of thoughts?
 
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