Living In the World, Not on It

T he Maryland Renaissance Faire is the best for a number of reasons, not the least of which is due to them having the Scottish Rogues, the O'Danny Girls and a host of other music makers! I love them. The O'Danny Girls are fun because of their lyrics and I highly enjoy their singing. It's all vocal - just singing. The Scottish Rogues are mostly music, no lyrics. Both are enjoyable, but for all-out happy footstomping fun, the Scottish Rogues are the best. Luis can't take it very much but I love it. It makes me happy and light up from the inside out - and seeing and hearing them live definitely brought out the joyousness I'd been missing. After they played I found Nelson and told him I wanted to thank him. He was curious about that, and I explained that last year I'd first heard and seen them. I bought their CDs that were sold there and burned onto my iPod what I hadn't (Renee has all of their stuff). I told him that their music got me through this summer, whic...

It went well, and had some interesting aspects. I went to Izolde last year and she was insightful and helpful. I wish I'd written it down at the time; I did mention it in my blog but without any details. I took a picture of the cards and this it: OK, this is hard to look at, but the first card that I picked is the purply-looking card (the Nine of Swords) in the center on top of the other card, which is something like current events. She said that it looks like there are a lot of strong things going on in my life, and I will want to make radical changes in my life, but shouldn't until I get through them. (Makes sense so far... and there are a lot of really emotionally "strong" events going on in my life.) Under that card is the Nine of... uh... oh, boy. You can see why I'm not cut out to do this... What was it? The Nine of Aces - no, sorry, the Ace of Rods - means in conjunction with the other card, that there are a lot of negative emotions right now, but undernea...