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I'm most happy when it rains...
posted by
Smittenheimer
on July 11, 2008 at 2:21 PM
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Re: Good luck with the rain, benzinha...
I went back and highlighted it for you. And, we need the rain luck, we surely do.
I think that the humidity is 99%, or, at least it feels that way to a dry heated desert woman who is used to 1% humidity year round. I went out and watered and it made the cicadas all sing.
posted by
benzinha
on July 6, 2008 at 1:27 PM
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Re: Good luck with the rain, benzinha...
I thought that's what you meant, but, considered the possibility that you might have been referring to a poem you had written. Damn, too bad!
posted by
metalrat
on July 6, 2008 at 1:10 PM
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Good luck with the rain, benzinha...
..and thanks for the compliments, but, what were you referring to when you said to read your third line?
posted by
metalrat
on July 6, 2008 at 12:37 PM
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Re: Oh, wow! BC-A, only one great grandmother was native American.
And, I never got to meet her. It does make you look at everything Just a little differently, I suppose.
I wanted to be a part of each new race, religion or gender that I came to know.....starting in early childhood. When studying about India, I pulled out family sheets and tried to make saris. I wore Mom's black lace evening dress with a big hair comb bought in Mexico and danced to Perez Prado around the hosue at nine.....with a mantilla and fan...and when they took me to see flamenco, I bought castanets.
I really liked the men, the Tutsi, or Watusi, who jumped really high and flung their heads around in circles and I did that for awhile. I think that I have tried to walk in absolutely every shoe that has ever been pointed out to me in my life.
The period with the afro in my little white girl's hair during college was most embarrassing when I look at old photos nowadays. I so wanted to be a radical black person. Me and Patty Hearst, huh?
I'm all better now and I like to be just simple me. So, that's who I am, most days.
posted by
benzinha
on July 5, 2008 at 10:51 PM
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Re: We've had too much rain here.
Living_Life_Large, we don't know what that means.
Sorry that our rains got lost and stayed in your neck of the woods instead. Bummer.
posted by
benzinha
on July 5, 2008 at 10:37 PM
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Re: wileyjan, a mender's job is never done, I find.....mend on.
How's that haircut? I just chop my own off in the mirror in the bathroom. It is now about 1 and 1/2 inch long. It was touching my face as I worked and sweated in the garden. I told my hair, "You touch me and I'll cut you." It did and so, I did. Now, it can't touch me anymore.
Mondo best wishes for continued healings inside your sweet and grumpy old body. Hah!
posted by
benzinha
on July 5, 2008 at 10:36 PM
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Re: your wishes for my and your rainfall, elysianfields, are truly sacred
in our areas. May much needed rain come and fall gently, for a long time, with rumblings of thunder periodically just for you.
When thunder starts the dogs look at me and ask whether we will have to go hide in the shower and I look back and tell them that no, we'll be fine and then a really gigantic thunderbolt crashes and they run and I laugh.
My house has been struck by lightning while I stood on the porch about fifteen feet away, and I am a very brave woman to stand out there again now in my old age. Testing the gods' love for me, I guess.
posted by
benzinha
on July 5, 2008 at 10:33 PM
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Re: rain rituals and newbies....
No, I don't really know any rain rituals, other than those thay I have watched at the pueblos in New Mexico or heard on television documentaries.
But, I have dressed up my grandchildren as native Australians, we painted each other like the photos that we saw in National Geographic and then we made a small fire in my tiny BBQ and danced around it with Brasilian rainsticks and made sounds about rain and the trees and cactus and flowers and insects and birds and the city actually got rain within days.
They became believers after that. Today, as I wrote of the rain, it stopped. I went out on the porch and began chants like those that I heard in New Mexico and in Shiprock once and the rain came back! Then, I became a believer.
You know, you can bust newbies who threaten you to the Big Brother here at Blogit and get them uninvited as members here.....just forward the email to them if you seriously felt threatened.
Otherwise, idiots make idiotic comments around here often, but they are just for effect and not for real....dunno.
Sorry that happened to you, vogue. I hear rain outside. I am going to go make my dogs stare at me again, while I bounce this old body on the porch and chant for it to continue all night.
posted by
benzinha
on July 5, 2008 at 10:27 PM
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Oh, wow!
You sound like a Native American love! You really intrigue me love! lol, BCA!
posted by
BC-A
on July 5, 2008 at 9:12 PM
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We've had too much rain here.
posted by
Living_Life_Large
on July 5, 2008 at 8:27 PM
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God Bless you in the rain luv and may you be drenched when it's all done. I'm still mending
posted by
WileyJohn
on July 5, 2008 at 4:48 PM
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We're suffering drought like conditions here in the hills of Tx, as well. I, like you, hope for a good shower - and I love the sound of thunder --- all of it. Just a good rainfall is what I pray for. Be safe and enjoy any amount of moisture you get.
Elyse
posted by
elysianfields
on July 5, 2008 at 6:18 AM
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I am pleased to see that I am the fırst one ın today. The sıtuatıon ıs the same here ın Turkey, no raın untıl November and ıt ıs already getting hot,hot and dry dry. Soon the fires ın the mountaıns will start. Do you really know rain rıtuals? I find that so fsacınating, please xplain more. Thanks so much for your comment. Yetserday I actually receıved a hatemail from one of the newbıes, not only ınsutling me but also physıcally threatenıng me. Luckıly we are ın cyberspace so that threat ıs somewhat mute, but nevertheless upsetting.
posted by
vogue
on July 4, 2008 at 11:56 PM
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