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Who am I? Why am I here? What is my true purpose?
While these are all excellent questions I’m posed more with urgent questions, like.. “do we have any more Dew?”
Either way, I wanted to make an update about Beltane weekend at 4 Quarters www.4qf.org
First I want to thank Felix for coming out and being so open minded about things, it was really cool having him there. Now it’s time for the recap.
I wanted to leave on Thursday for the farm, well that didn’t happen. I stayed up way too late the night before, was slow in packing, and generally just drug my feet too much. So I arrived Friday about an hour before Felix, Wolfcub, Snuggems, and LilKitt. I got into camp an got set up and a fire burning, after waiting awhile I decided to go wait by the main road for Felix in case he got lost. Well after about 30 minutes he pulled in and after exchanging hugs we drove on in, got him reged and on into camp.
Wolf an company arrived a lil after that and after we all got settled in and such we hung out catching up for a while before we decided to go up and see who was still around. Well most folks were calling it an early night, but there was some drumming going on. Being the addict I am I ran back to camp for my drum then carried it back up the hill.. I’m so out of shape! I was panting and gasping when I finally hit the road again. But I got back and got into the grove. I was the only one from our party drumming, but it was an awesome set and I got to lead more than I’m used to.
After the fun and hand punishment of playing we headed down an hung out a lil before finally crashing. I froze my butt off that night as it got way colder than I had packed for.
Saturday we all got up an hung out in camp for a lil while eating breakfast. I don’t really remember the order of things, but Kitt and I have a ritual of swimming in the river at Beltain. This year was much colder than last year, and the water was somewhere in the mid 40’s. With a great degree of focus and meditation I managed to get all the way in and even to swim for a lil bit. It was really nice to feel otter and dolphin so present in me again.
After the swim we headed back an warmed up, got a bite then headed up to watch the maypole. I got several good shots of the pole being erected and just as we were kicking back to watch em dance it became very obvious there was a shortage of couples. For a brief bit of background for yaw, Orren, the grounds keeper has never allowed same sex couples to dance the maypole in all the previous years, insisting on pairing off gay couples with lesbian couples or some other free female. Well based on the meaning of this ritual and what it represents I refused to dance with a female, as it was not my partner and would be a dishonor to my relationship and the real meenign of the ritual.
Well when they started asking for couples I shouted out “same sex couples?” and he agreed, though Felix got to play the female.. I doubt it was much of a stretch though. Hehe.
After that was the feast, evening ritual, and finally DRUMMING! If you folks don’t know, I play a 14” Djembe with a goat skin head. I’ve been playing casually for 3 years now and have progressed over time.. well the set was wicked! I had such a great time and also a breakthrough.. I managed to speak while drumming. Though it sounds dumb, it is very hard to keep drumming and talk at the same time. In addition to that one of the other drummers (that I really look up to in terms of skill) said I sounded good!! Woot!
So after punishing my paws drumming we went down an made dinner, started a fire (which was a real PITA) to get going since it had been raining. Kitt, Felix, and I stayed up till about 3 just talking. It was so nice, and moments like those are what I really treasure about going to the farm.
Sunday we slept in, milled about for awhile while I got the fire going again. Did breakfast then started to pack up. We all said our goodbyes after getting things squared away.
I have to say though it was a short and somewhat disjointed Beltane I really had a nice time an feel refreshed and anew.
While these are all excellent questions I’m posed more with urgent questions, like.. “do we have any more Dew?”
Either way, I wanted to make an update about Beltane weekend at 4 Quarters www.4qf.org
First I want to thank Felix for coming out and being so open minded about things, it was really cool having him there. Now it’s time for the recap.
I wanted to leave on Thursday for the farm, well that didn’t happen. I stayed up way too late the night before, was slow in packing, and generally just drug my feet too much. So I arrived Friday about an hour before Felix, Wolfcub, Snuggems, and LilKitt. I got into camp an got set up and a fire burning, after waiting awhile I decided to go wait by the main road for Felix in case he got lost. Well after about 30 minutes he pulled in and after exchanging hugs we drove on in, got him reged and on into camp.
Wolf an company arrived a lil after that and after we all got settled in and such we hung out catching up for a while before we decided to go up and see who was still around. Well most folks were calling it an early night, but there was some drumming going on. Being the addict I am I ran back to camp for my drum then carried it back up the hill.. I’m so out of shape! I was panting and gasping when I finally hit the road again. But I got back and got into the grove. I was the only one from our party drumming, but it was an awesome set and I got to lead more than I’m used to.
After the fun and hand punishment of playing we headed down an hung out a lil before finally crashing. I froze my butt off that night as it got way colder than I had packed for.
Saturday we all got up an hung out in camp for a lil while eating breakfast. I don’t really remember the order of things, but Kitt and I have a ritual of swimming in the river at Beltain. This year was much colder than last year, and the water was somewhere in the mid 40’s. With a great degree of focus and meditation I managed to get all the way in and even to swim for a lil bit. It was really nice to feel otter and dolphin so present in me again.
After the swim we headed back an warmed up, got a bite then headed up to watch the maypole. I got several good shots of the pole being erected and just as we were kicking back to watch em dance it became very obvious there was a shortage of couples. For a brief bit of background for yaw, Orren, the grounds keeper has never allowed same sex couples to dance the maypole in all the previous years, insisting on pairing off gay couples with lesbian couples or some other free female. Well based on the meaning of this ritual and what it represents I refused to dance with a female, as it was not my partner and would be a dishonor to my relationship and the real meenign of the ritual.
Well when they started asking for couples I shouted out “same sex couples?” and he agreed, though Felix got to play the female.. I doubt it was much of a stretch though. Hehe.
After that was the feast, evening ritual, and finally DRUMMING! If you folks don’t know, I play a 14” Djembe with a goat skin head. I’ve been playing casually for 3 years now and have progressed over time.. well the set was wicked! I had such a great time and also a breakthrough.. I managed to speak while drumming. Though it sounds dumb, it is very hard to keep drumming and talk at the same time. In addition to that one of the other drummers (that I really look up to in terms of skill) said I sounded good!! Woot!
So after punishing my paws drumming we went down an made dinner, started a fire (which was a real PITA) to get going since it had been raining. Kitt, Felix, and I stayed up till about 3 just talking. It was so nice, and moments like those are what I really treasure about going to the farm.
Sunday we slept in, milled about for awhile while I got the fire going again. Did breakfast then started to pack up. We all said our goodbyes after getting things squared away.
I have to say though it was a short and somewhat disjointed Beltane I really had a nice time an feel refreshed and anew.