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January/Hartmânôd 17, 2017 Wodanstag

1/18/2018

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(Hartmânôd = Harsh Month)
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Plans: my love my fiancée, work 8hrs
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Ancestor Meditation: Wodanstag/Wodan’s Day/Wednesday (grandparents, Mother) David F. Schmidt (1895-1957) and Mary Goertz (1888-1983)
David F. Schmidt (1895-1957)
Birth 28 Feb 1885 in Lehigh, Marion County, Kansas
Death 1 Oct 1957 in Marion County, Kansas
*Married 22 October 1922
Mary Goertz (1888-1983)
Birth 17 March 1888 in Kismet, Kansas
Death 27 Dec 1983 in Marion County, Kansas
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I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me.  I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you’ve provided. I look forward with eager anticipation to the great family reunion on the other side.  I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Sowulo: The Sun, Sunna, a lightning bolt, victory, success, feminine life force, lighting the way to new ideas, vitality, confidence, action, wholeness, optimism, the clear light of day, can be a destructive lightening flash (clearing), the will to victory, life purpose, cosmic energies effecting life, appearance of a guiding principle, guidance in journeying, spiritual guidance, leadership.
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Not: 
Havamal 152.
An eighth is mine, to all the Folk

Useful to know in their suffering;
Where hatred rises-up between man and man,
This I can settle fast.
 
Distress, suffering, compulsion of fate, separation, confrontation, strife settled, understanding suffering, settled calm, mind over matter, necessity of fate, misery and death, change of luck as necessity, decision of the Wurtâ, Wurt/Urlag paid-for, cause-effect relations, capability to restructure Wurt/Urlag, That which cannot be averted, the Ur-law that is active in every creature, stress, karmic debt, karmic need, but with outlook for change of karma, banishing ill fortune by means of accepting karma and karmic law, Skuld, Divine justice that balances.
“Use your fate, do not strive against it” (List, 55).
*H2R2
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Interpretation: Victory (Sowulo) leads to suffering (Not).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: That had to be the shittiest 6hrs of sleep ever!
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Game of Thrones S3 E3
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Quick good morning chat with my love my fiancée.
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Socks finally came home @ noon
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Toby and I out for a 3 block roundy-roundy just to get it out of his system
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Separated an overflowing recyclable.
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Leftover beef stroganoff
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Game of Thrones S3 E4
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Call into brother.  He said he didn’t let Socks out yesterday.  So that means Socks has developed a way to get out from the inside.  I’ll have to get on my belly to go around in discovery mode.
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Table shaper down.  I finished one small job on the pin router.  The rest of the shift was spent in debur…boring.
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Last check on all fur-kids.  Well hela, Socks was still; inside his house.
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Vikings S5 Eon the History Channel/Sling-TV
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Still dealing with hiccups.  Extra nighttime meds in an effort to offset them
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Bed @ 2AM, up again @ 3:30AM with hiccups.  Online to research a cure.  Drinking water bent over from the far side of a glass did the trick.  Who woulda thunk it?
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God/dess Meditation: Heimo, HEAR ME!  Gellanhorn’s god, son of nine mothers and whitest of all gods.  You’re the genetic link between the gods and humankind. From your home in Himilberg, your keen eyes and sharp ears guard Ensigart, the world of the gods. As you stand so alert for the approach of giants, remind us that we must also watch for our own encroaching evil. Let weakness, cowardice, lies and dishonor be barred from Ensiwëg, the Rainbow Bridge, leading to our heart’s abode. Be a model for vigilance, that we may rise to the best that is in us, and someday join the Noble Gods in their shining homes. WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL, HEIMO, as we honor the Heimo that resides in us all!
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Alaf Sal Fena!
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January/Hartmânôd 16, 2017 Dienstag

1/17/2018

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(Hartmânôd = Harsh Month)
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Plans: My love my fiancée, work 8hrs
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Ancestor Meditation: Dienstag/Thing Day/Tuesday (grandparents) Henry E. Reimer (1898-1967) and Maria Hildebrand (1895-72)
Henry E. Reimer (1898-1967)
Birth 15 May 1898 in Medford, Grant County, Oklahoma, USA
Death 26 Mar 1967 in Hesston, Harvey County, Kansas, United States
*Married 2 June 1920
Maria Hildebrand (1894-72)
Birth 30 Dec 1894 in Marion County, Ks, USA
Death 22 Jul 1972 in Newton, Harvey County, KS, USA
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I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me.  I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you’ve provided. I look forward with eager anticipation to the great family reunion on the other side.  I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Eihwaz: Irminsul, the Cosmic pillar, inner strength, stress and difficulties, overcoming obstacles, need to have backbone to get through, endurance, “Shit happens, get over it! “, temporary cosmic consciousness, stability over external circumstances, resilience, the Shamanic link of experiences within the All.  “That which does not kill us makes us stronger” (Friedrich Nietzsche).
*A2R5
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Gibor: 
Havamal 163.
An eighteenth I learned, yet I would never

Let a woman or maid know it,
For everyone knows what’s best for himself-
This leads me to the conclusion of the songs-
The one it shall be then, that lies in my arms
As betrothed wife and as sister.
 
The scald, awakening, passion, mystery, comprehension of the diving from below upward; from humanity outward, secrecy, gift/giver, gift of life, that which is best for the individual, fulfillment, sacred marriage, being ONE with the sister soul, protection against evil forces, being/seeing the Divine, the cosmic consciousness and the divine principle, two forces having a singular origin, the spiritual ego, death-life cycle, protection against evil forces, union of the gods and the World, the uninterrupted chain in the cycle of eternal returns, the Creator and the Created, the deepest mysteries of the Universe, the end.
“Man, be one with God” (List, 67).
*H3R6
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Interpretation: Inner strength (Eihwaz) leads to fulfillment (Gibor).
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1st check on all fur-kids; I was afraid of this.  I think because Socks’ sliding glass door was open a bit last night, it’s quite chilly in Socks’ house, AND his water bowl was frozen; 6degF outside, 36degF inside.  Socks THOUGHT about going outside, and was out for about one minute.  At least in his house he can be a bit warmer, and get ultraviolet warmth through the sliding glass door.  I moved his food and water bowls close to the rear space heater.
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Outcome: 7hrs of rough sleep…coughing up stuff, which befuddles me.
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My love my fiancée is already busy to day.
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Coughing up all sorts of sputum. 
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Breakfast sandwich on a whole wheat English muffin
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Stayed in the kitchen to make something for lunch @ home and for dinner @ work.
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Toby and I out for a three block roundy just to get it out of his system.
*Cold, mostly sunny, north breeze
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Beef stroganoff from a box with peas and carrots
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Call in from attorney
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Game of Thrones S3 E2
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Call into brother
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13degF outside, 56degF in Sock’s house.
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Rough start at work, but smoothed out later.  All-in-all, not horrible.
*did my brother let Socks out from his house into the bitter cold?
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Last check on all fur-kids.
*I stayed up until 2:30am calling, hoping Socks would come home.  He didn’t.  JsFnChst!!!!!!
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Shower, bed, nighty-night
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God/dess Meditation: Ostara, trustworthy goddess; wife to Brego; the adherent god of scalds, keeper of the golden apples of youth and eternal life, keep us young inside. When we are starving for laughter, hungry for the lightness that comes with having few years on our shoulders, slip us one of those gleaming fruits that we may see the world through youthful eyes. Let springtime be in our steps, love in our hearts and a song on our lips. Change us to the core! Fill us with optimism and dreams for the future. WE GIVE YOU MOST A HEART-FELT HEIL, OSTARA, as we honor the Ostara that resides in us all!
*source: combination AFA Book of Uncommon Prayers, and C.Reimer/V.Elmersson
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Alaf Sal Fena!
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January/Hartmânôd 15, 2017 Manostag, MLK Day

1/16/2018

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(Hartmânôd = Harsh Month)
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Martin Luther King, Jr Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr._Day
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/01/strong-quotes-martin-luther-king-jr-day-180115081138514.html
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Plans: my love my fiancée, work 8hrs
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Ancestor Meditation: Manostag/Mano’s Day/Monday (parents) Elmer H. Reimer (1924-1963) and Anna M. Schmidt (1926-1994), Jewell F. Reimer [(sister) (1947)], Michael L Reimer [(brother) (1948-1997)].
Elmer H. Reimer (1924-1963
Birth 24 October 1924 in Whitewater, Butler County, Kansas, USA
*US Navy veteran, Joint Intelligence Center, Pacific Ocean Area (JICPOA)
**Naval Intelligence Office, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
*Married 23 June 1946
Death 10 October 1963 in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, USA
Anna M. Schmidt (1926-1994)
Birth 20 January 1926 in Lehigh, Marion County, Kansas, USA
Death 23 September 1994 in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, USA
I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me.  I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you’ve provided. I look forward with eager anticipation to the great family reunion on the other side.  I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Laguz: A body of water, the necessity of water as a life source, life well-lived, life ever-flowing; seen and unseen, going with the flow, fluidity, the leek (a healing herb) the feminine, Nirdu, Erda (Mother Earth), Ing-Frô and Frouwa, emotions intact, potential for life, magical workings, conform with emotions, personal growth, the basic energy and secret source of organic life, feeling, the deep minded Spirit, intuition.
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A dried-up body of Water, the struggles of life, swimming upstream, difficulties with relating to the feminine, manipulation, lack of moral fiber, emotions out of control or suppressed, shallow minded, deception, unsympathetic, totally void of growth, failing to go with the flow, frivolity, immaturity, depression, inability to formulate with the emotional world, unstimulated, sinking/drowning, disconnect with the Inner Self.
*A3R5
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Sig: 
Havamal 155.
This I know as an eleventh, when

I accompany my dear friend into combat;
I sing it into the shield, so that he triumphs in battle
And that luck and happiness surrounds him always.
 
Triumph, surrounded with luck and happiness, victory, success, gain, well-being, victorious and happy, into the fray, blessing from above, successful fight, achieved goal, school, and salvation by light, inspiration, soul, and power of the sun, inspiration, soul, life force, wholeness, reliable success, healing, good luck, spiritual completion, and the path of the soul, Rune of the spiritual ray of inspiration, wisdom, and illumination.
“The creative spirit must conquer” (List, 57).
*H2R5
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Interpretation: Fluidity (Berkana) leads to success (Sig).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 7hrs of rough sleep, coughing, up three times, Toby outside/Toby inside
*3:30AM, rain, 5:30AM lite snow
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Good morning chat with my love my fiancée…OMGs, I’m missing her so much.
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I can’t go to the Y until I stop coughing like this.  I have NO IDEA why I’m coughing up flem/phlegm.  I haven’t been well, but I certainly have not been sick enough to produce this shit. 
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When I went out to leave something for the squirrels, there was already a squirrel rummaging in the tree hole.  I held out a peanut, and that squirrel didn’t wait for me to come to the tee, it climbed down from the tree and met me half way.  It took the peanut out of my hand and shimmied back up the tree. 
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Call into New Day USA
Call into Sears.  It seems no one can tell me more than it’s at the service area…wherever that is.
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Toby and I out for an early afternoon, 3 block roundy-roundy just to get it out of his system.
Cloudy, bitter cold, north breeze
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White Castle cheeseburgers from frozen with chips.
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Started watching Game of Thrones S3 E1
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Not enough to keep me busy on the table shaper.  Stayed in layout then over to the pin routers.  GODSDAMNIT!  My bread and butter parts showed up late in the shift…had to ignore them.  That’s okay.  I turned in just over 7hrs for the shift.  It’ll just have to be okay.
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Okay, either Toby or Socks has learned to open the sliding glass door to Socks’ house.  My suspicion is Toby.  No sign of Socks.  This has to stop!  It will never warm up in there very much overnight.  I’ll have to once again start placing the padlock over the hinge to make sure it stays shut.
*6degF outside, 38degF in Socks’ house.
*Socks did come home after a couple of calls.
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Finished Game of Thrones S3 E1
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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PTA shower, bed, nighty-night.
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God/dess Meditation: Nirdu, brother-husband, to Nirda, parents of the Wanâ; Ing-Frô and the Frouwa, beloved god of harbors and seas close to land; help us to remember the cargoes of wealth that float to our doors daily from the wonderful Universe in which we live. Though our misfortunes may rise and fall like the tides, the chance of prosperity, like the eternal sea brimming with fish, is still there. Like the salt-sea spray, awaken us to the possibilities that surround us, so that our nets may be cast wide and return full of life’s gifts. WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL, NIRDU, as we honor the Nirdu that resides in us all!
*source: combination AFA Book of Uncommon Prayers, and C.Reimer/V.Elmersson
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Alaf Sal Fena!
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January/Hartmânôd 14, 2017 Sunnastag

1/15/2018

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(Hartmânôd = Harsh Month)
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Plans: finish what I didn’t get started yesterday.
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Ancestor Meditation: (picture source: The Mennonite Heritage and Agricultural Museum, Goessel, Kansas)
Sunnastag/Sunna’s Day/Sunday (2nd great grandparents) David   A. Schmidt (1822-1892) and Maria Nachtigal (1828-1911)
David A. Schmidt (1822-1892)
Birth 19 May 1822 in Alexanderwohl, Molotschna South, Russia
Death 18 Dec 1892 in Marion County, Kansas, United States
*Married 15 November 1849
Maria Nachtigal (1828-1911)
Birth 23 Jan 1828 in Majdan Królewski, Podkarpackie, Duchy of Poland, West Prussia
Death 01 Apr 1911 in Goessel, Marion County, Kansas, United States
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I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me.  I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you’ve provided. I look forward with eager anticipation to the great family reunion on the other side.  I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
* no doubt the ones who brought the family over from Europe.
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Wunjo: Joy, pasture, happiness attained with the fulfillment of a wish, the strong Clanic relationship, social contacts, family ties, Clanic solidarity, fellowship, happiness, optimism, realization of true will, social and domestic harmony, good cheer, new social relationships, Fridu attained within a secure setting, a bright attitude of Wodan exposed.
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Sadness, disruption/breakdown in the Clanic relationship, questionable social contacts, loser, miserable, loneliness, shunning, weakened family/Clanic ties, social and domestic disharmony, the inability to attain a wish, strife, alienation, pessimism, failed social relationships, Fridu is challenged, the shadow/dark side of Wodan is exposed.
*A1R8
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Fa: 
Havamal 145.
The first one promises to help generously

In sorrow, sickness and pain;
In eternal change, man goes forth
From death to new creation.
 
Generous help, luck, eternal change, forward motion, binding, life/death/life, new creation, property, to grow, to wander, to destroy, to shred, guidance, Father, potential change reflected in a beginning; preface of that which is becoming, being and passing away; procreation, creative father principle, Alle-Vater principle.  primal Fire, the power of spirit and change as well as the power of creativity, the Divine Masculine Principle, success, pure, generated fire that acts creatively in love, will that spares manifestation down to the material levels, necessity of change.
“Generate your luck and you will have it” (List, 49).
*H1R1
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Interpretation: The strong Clanic relationship (Wunjo) leads to generous help (Fa).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 7 ½ hours of not-so-beneficial sleep, woke up coughing
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Good morning chat with my love my fiancée; she’s nauseated, my brain is a fog…okay, no silly comments.
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Now how in the hela did Toby get his collar stuck on the mattress?  Poor guy whined to get my attention.  Now I have a hole in the mattress about the size of a dime.  Replacement is in the near future.
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Toby and I out for an early afternoon, well behaved, 30min walk.
*sunny, cool slight breeze
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Bundesliga https://www.bundesliga.com/en/
Köln 2-1 Borussia Monchengladbach (good job Köln)
Borussia Dortmund v Wolfsburg on FS1/Sling-TV
*@ the half, 0-0
*end of match 0-0
*excitement beyond belief…
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Completed paperwork for New Day USA
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Boost mobile to educate me how to answer my phone
FedEx for copies and two-day delivery to New Day USA
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Burger King for an early lite dinner
Dillons
Dillons petrol
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Now, y’all know I’m not an American football fan, except, that is, where the Minnesota Vikings are concerned.  This was oneheluva game against the Saints: https://www.sbnation.com/2018/1/14/16891500/stefon-diggs-rescued-vikings-playoff-hopes-last-second-touchdown
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3 loads of laundry
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Game of Thrones; season 2 Es 9 and 10
*EXCELLENT way to end season 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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Shower, bed, nighty-night
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God/dess Meditation: Sunna, goddess of the Sun:
Greetings to you Sunna, in all your feminine, fertile glory; Lamp of Wodan, newly risen! Hail to you who is the counterpart to Mano, male aspect of the Moon.  You have shown on all our ancestors, you shine on us, and you will yet shine on our decedents yet unborn. Share with us some of your light, your energy, your power, so that we might better fight our battles and attain our goals. WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL SUNNA, as we honor the Sunna that resides in us all!

*source: combination AFA Book of Uncommon Prayers, and C.Reimer/V.Elmersson
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Alaf Sal Fena!
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January/Hartmânôd 13, 2017 Tag der Fruchtbarkeit

1/14/2018

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(Hartmânôd = Harsh Month)
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Plans: full day
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Ancestor Meditation: (gravesites @ Alexanderwohl Mennonite, Goessel, Ks and Medford Oklahoma Mennonite respectively) Tag der Fruchtbarkeit/Day of Fertility/Saturday (2nd great grandparents) Peter Amos Reimer (1832-1905) and Agatha Dirksen (1840-1905)
Peter A Reimer (1832-1905)
Birth 17 Sept 1832 in Ohrloff, Molotschna, South Russia
Death 3 Sept 1905 in Goessel, KS
*Married 22 September 1858
Agatha Dirksen (1840-1905)
Birth 07 Apr 1840 in Sparrau, Molotschna, South Russia
Death 3 Apr 1905 in Medford, OK
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I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me.  I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you’ve provided. I look forward with eager anticipation to the great family reunion on the other side.  I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
*no doubt the ones who brought the family over from Europe.
*offered up some tobacco for Granny Aggie.
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Elder Rune: Ehwaz: Horse, the special, controlled relationship between a rider and a horse, absolute trust, taking control of relationships and with higher-powers, instinct, intuition, progress, working in tandem with another, toward a single goal, control of a situation, adaptability, two halves that make-up the whole, following one’s instincts, teamwork, trust, loyalty, partnership, cooperation.
Conversely:
The relationship of a horse and rider out of control, disharmony, quarrelsome tendencies, mistrust, betrayal, stranded, indecisiveness, false friends/unfriendliness, treachery, change and/or movement for the worse, loss, break-up of a relationship, disruption of relationships, reluctant to trust, friendless, blockage, treachery, indecision, an enemy comes to the gate.
*A3R3
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Ka:
Havamal 150.
A sixth one is mine, if a man wounds me

With the root of a trunk still with juice;
Then I am unscathed, the man himself is consumed
By the evil with which he threatened me.
 
Imperviousness, a reversal of fortune, the world tree, preservation of tribe or race, ancestors/ancestry, loyalty, that which is existing, defense, the polarity of the male/female principle in the Universe, opposing energies, earthly love, as executive power of balancing justice, art, capability, artist, genius, being favored, procreation, the child, force, that which is established, World Tree/the Irminsul/the All, power, generation, ability and artfulness, sensuality, higher consciousness, return.
“Your blood, your highest possession” (List, 53).
*H1R6
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Interpretation: loyalty (Ehwaz) leads to loyalty (Ka).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 7hrs of rough sleep
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Good morning chat with my love my fiancée; she’s working and I’m busy, too.
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My health by the numbers:
Weight: 254 week prior 256
Glucose: 106 week prior 120
BP: 126/73 week prior 134/80
Pulse: 85 week prior 80
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2-eggs sunny-side-up, diced potatoes, soy sausage, whole wheat English muffin with strawberry jelly.
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Loaded up the Orange Glow Monster that scared Socks so severely and returned it to Lowe’s https://www.lowes.com/.  Instead, I found a radiator style space heater more familiar to him with 2 additional years warranty.  I took it right out of the box and it started working.  Hela, I had more of a problem registering the damned thing than I did buying it or setting it up.
*the checkout person was so nice, he invited me to do an online survey.  Even that was a pain, so I phoned-in my comments to customer service
*17degF outside, 63degF in Socks’ house.
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Burger King for a free sandwich.  Well Hela, I ended up getting burger, fries, drink and 10-piece nugget (4 for me, 6 for Toby) al for free.  WHOA!
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Toby and I out for a perfektly behaved, 30 min walk @ sunset.
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Okay, I’m thinking the Y on Sun-Tues-Thurs rather than Mon-Wed-Fri.  That might work.
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Socks at the front door, ready to go into his house.  I meet him @ the back gate, where he’s a bit hesitant to go inside, but I was able to coax him in.  He even went atop the table close to where the Orange Glow Monster was, but is no longer.  He seems better now, but I’ll check back on him again later.
*Yup, Socks is good. 
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Bundesliga https://www.bundesliga.com/en/
Bremen 1-1 Hoffenheim
Stuttgart 1-0 Berlin
Augsburg 1-0 Hamburger
Hannover 3-2 Mainz
Frankfurt 1-1 Freiburg
Leipzig 3-1 Schalke
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MASL http://www.maslsoccer.com/
Friday
Syracuse 4-5 Baltimore
Florida 5-7 St. Louis
Cedar Rapids 3-5 Harrisburg
El Paso 10-11 Sonora
Turlock 6-7 Ontario (Calif)
San Diego 8-3 Tacoma
Today
Kansas City v Harrisburg
1st qtr. 2-1
2nd qtr. 2-2
3rd qtr. 2-0
4th qtr. 4-1
Final: 10-4
KANSAS CITY COMETS WIN!  KANSAS CITY COMETS WIN!
Sonora 15-10 Milwaukee
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Actual German Frankfurters, leftover kraut and leftover green beans…YUM!
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Game of Thrones S2 Es 7 & 8
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Okay, what I didn’t get done today, mostly paperwork, I can get done tomorrow.
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1st draft of wedding ceremony complete.
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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God/dess Meditation: Frouwa & Ing-Frô:
Frouwa, most lovely of all goddesses; who could not love you?  Women as their own inner glory and highest attainment as the self-made woman, men for your beauty, passion and strength. Praise to you for the gift of life, and for the love that makes life worth living. Remind us always that it is the strong who love the best and the most, and that only the mighty can truly be gentle. Fill our lives with passion and lust that we may live our lives to the fullest. WE GIVE YOU MOST A HEART-FELT HEIL, FROUWA, as we honor the Frouwa that resides in us all!
*source: combination AFA Book of Uncommon Prayers, and C.Reimer/V.Elmersson
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Ing-Frô, you’re the Great God of Fridu (all-encompassing safety and protection), Ar (peace, good seasons), the good harvest and prosperity: you are indeed the god of this World. When the day to day wears us down remind us of pleasures and joys. Help us recall the wonderful excesses that brought our lives into being and which sustain the human spirit during good times and bad. Without you, there would be no life and certainly little delight. Thank you, Ing-Frô, for the rushing life spirit and the eternal play of passions that make our lives fruitful.  WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL, ING-FRÔ, as we honor the Ing-Frô that resides in all of us!
*source: combination AFA Book of Uncommon Prayers, and C.Reimer/V.Elmersson
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Alaf Sal Fena!
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January/Hartmânôd 12, 2017 Frijastag

1/13/2018

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(Hartmânôd = Harsh Month)
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Plans: my love my fiancée, perhaps work 8hrs,
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Ancestor Meditation: (picture source: Ancestry.com)
Frijastag/Frija’s Day/Friday (great grandparents) David D. Schmidt (1852-1924) and Elisabeth Zülke (apx1856-1932) 
David D. Schmidt
Birth 11 June 1852
Death 18 March 1924 in Lehigh, Marion County, Kansas, USA
Married 22 February 1876
Elizabeth Zülke (1856-1932)
Birth 4 JAN 1856 in Waldheim, Molotschna, South Russia
Death 19 JUN 1932 in Lehigh, Kansas
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I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me.  I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you’ve provided. I look forward with eager anticipation to the great family reunion on the other side.  I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Teiwaz: The God Ziu, one handed god of war and honor, valor, uncompromising in judgments, personal management, a higher rationality, dedication to an ideal, balanced, victory in conflict, the spiritual warrior, self-sacrifice, spiritual birth/rebirth, motivated by a sense of justice, law and order, bravery, honesty, even-handedness, warfare as a part of evolution, mental and emotional order.
Conversely:
Outside the favor of Ziu; the god of honor, dishonor, without victory in conflict, injustice, imbalance, mismanagement, failure, unbalanced, dishonesty, naiveté compromised judgments, defeat, warfare without purpose, disengagement with the sacrificial Self, spiritual death, legal dilemma, disorder/chaos, cowardice, the inability to fight for what’s right, void of the will to succeed, double standards.
*A3R1
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Eh: 
Havamal 161.
A seventeenth I know, through a wise law

To join two lives in love;
And everyone is willing, no virginal woman
Will leave me lightly after this.
 
Warns against frivolous, transient love affairs, the legal bond between man and woman, lasting love, two bound together by the primal law of life, unification, sanctity of marriage, the cross of wedlock, fulfillment, maintaining strict morals within the bonds of legal marriage, love, duality, bound by primal law, love, trust and marriage. Soul-mates, wedding, partnership, permanent bond, binding decision, hope, duration, horse, permanence and marriage as a law, unity of ego and you, sister souls, soul-love, God-Man-Woman, ideal love, twin souls, two made one, success, increase.
“Marriage is the raw-root of the Aryans” (List, 63).
*H3R5
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Interpretation: Valor (Teiwaz) leads to lasting love (Eh).
*jeez, ya think?
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1st check on all fur-kids.  Well, the space heater helped.  Socks survived.
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Outcome:  Good morning chat with my love my fiancée
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Vikings S5 E7, History Channel/Sling-TV
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Blueberry pancakes
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Off to Lowe’s to get Socks his own space heater.  Never let it be said Socks is not spoiled:
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Duraflame-5200-BTU-Infrared-Compact-Personal-Electric-Space-Heater-with-Thermostat/1000282197
*It seems to be working so well I can depend on this solely to keep Socks comfortable in his house.
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Trump is an ass:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-appears-deny-shithole-slur-defends-tough-immigration-stance-n837056
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-trump-shithole-20180112-story.html
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/durbin-trump-said-shithole-repeatedly-comments-were-vile-racist-n837116
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https://www.vox.com/2018/1/11/16880750/trump-immigrants-shithole-countries-norway
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Last of the Hobo Stew, plus a few meatballs from frozen
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Bundesliga’s back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  https://www.bundesliga.com/en/
Leverkusen v München on Fox Sports Go/Sling-TV
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I wasn’t sick enough to stay home.  I didn’t want to burn sick leave unnecessarily.  There was barely enough to stay busy on the table shaper.
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Yup, Toby is inside as my brother promised, but noticed I come home to a propped open sliding glass door to Socks’ house.  I had to ascertain why my brother left it open like that, and it didn’t take long.  Socks will have nothing to do with the fireplace-type space heater I got for him.  He was absolutely freaked-out over the orange glow.  He was insanely conflicted.  He didn’t want to be out in the cold, and he would not go into his house.  I had to turn it off, and pull the space heater from my bedroom into his house.  Once Socks realized what I had done, he was ready to stay inside.  Fucking frustrating.
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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Vikings S5 E8 on the History Channel/Sling-TV
*WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!
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3AM…WTF?
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God/dess Meditation: Frija:
Frija, Great Alle-Mutter; caregiver of Family, Hearth and Home, wife to Alle-Vater Wodan.  Teach us to be patient but not passive; wise but not haughty in our wisdom; far seeing yet not blind to that which is before us. May we nurture life, increase life, and live our own lives more fully. Through you we give honor to our human mothers. Through you we see all the beauty that surrounds us as well. WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL, FRIJA, as we honor the Frija that resides in us all!  HEIL ALLE MUTTER HEIL!
*source: combination AFA Book of Uncommon Prayers, and C.Reimer/V.Elmersson
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Alaf Sal Fena!
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January/Hartmânôd 11, 2017 Donarstag

1/12/2018

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(Hartmânôd = Harsh Month)
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Plans: my love my fiancée, work 8hrs
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Ancestor Meditation: Donarstag/Donar’s Day/Thursday (great, grandparents) Peter Reimer (1868-1937) and Eva Hiebert (1874-1929)
Peter Reimer (1868-1937)
Birth 17 July 1868 in, Kleefeld, Molotschna, Russia
Death 12 Jan 1937 in Kern County, California, United States
*Married 9 April 1893
Eva Hiebert (1874-1929)
Birth 13 Jan 1874 in, Alexanderwohl, Molotschna, Taurida, Russia
Death 20 Aug 1929 in Fresno, Fresno, California, United States
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I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me.  I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you’ve provided. I look forward with eager anticipation to the great family reunion on the other side.  I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Naudiz: The Rune of Need (whether mortal, emotional, spiritual), a Wurtâ Rune, forced friction, a stress indicator, opportunity for change, urgency, a generating force for the greater good, friction, transformation, resistance leading to strength, perseverance to endure, eventual peace within the Self, accept the unchangeable, an evolutionary change toward a more holistic state, Fate.
*A2R2
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Fa: 
Havamal 145.
The first one promises to help generously

In sorrow, sickness and pain;
In eternal change, man goes forth
From death to new creation.
 
Generous help, luck, eternal change, forward motion, binding, life/death/life, new creation, property, to grow, to wander, to destroy, to shred, guidance, Father, potential change reflected in a beginning; preface of that which is becoming, being and passing away; procreation, creative father principle, Alle-Vater principle.  primal Fire, the power of spirit and change as well as the power of creativity, the Divine Masculine Principle, success, pure, generated fire that acts creatively in love, will that spares manifestation down to the material levels, necessity of change.
“Generate your luck and you will have it” (List, 49).
*H1R1
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Interpretation: Stress (Naudiz) leads to help (Fa).
*I got it!
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1st check on all fur-kids.
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Outcome: 6hrs of solid sleep!
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Oh gods, I hope I’m not coming down with something.
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A dusting of snow, more ice than snow, bitter cold.
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18degF outside, 68degF in Socks’ house.
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Good morning chat with my love my fiancée.
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A banana and a breakfast sandwich with whole wheat English muffin
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Brave squirrels and birds getting fed today.
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Since I didn’t get any postal service yesterday, I had to brave the cold and ice for a trip to the post office to make sure my rather late mortgage payment was going to make it in time.  It will.
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Started watch Vikings on the History Channel/Sling-TV…will finish it later
*I forgot I can watch this on Sling-TV.  I kept trying, unsuccessfully, to log onto my online account with the History Channel to Chromecast it.  Watching it on Sling is much better.
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I keep putting straw in Toby’s dog house in an effort to feel better about having to leave him outside in this bitter cold.
*Relief!  My brother has agreed to let him in the back door later this evening.  May the gods and ancestors always shine favorably on my brother.
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My Chewy.com order is already here!
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At work, I started on the table shaper.  The lead man from the stretch press area came over asking me to fix what my 1st colleague didn’t do right.  I got no time for it, bit it was an “L1” so it had to be done, which I did.  The table shaper was making all sorts of odd noises, so I opted to call it in and worked out in layout.  When maintenance showed up, they discovered that someone turned off the oil supply to the spindle.  So no matter that the lever was open to oil the spindle, there was no oil going through it.
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I think my brother forgot about letting Toby inside.
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Last check on all fur-kids. 
Socks out briefly, then ready to go back into his house.  I’m glad I often check his climate control devices.  One of his space heaters bit the dust.  I considered running out to some 24hr store, but opted to pull the space heater from my bedroom.  It’s pretty chilly in Socks’ house right now.  I’m not sure if it will do much good, but at least it will give Socks something with which to cuddle.
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PTA shower, nighty night
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God/dess Meditation: Donar;
Donar, Son of Wodan and Erda, husband to Sibba with the Golden Hair, wielder of Malant and Great God of thunder, thunder forth in our lives. When we would hold back, encourage us to advance. When we would be weak, hearten us be strong. When we would shun life’s pleasures, inspire our appetites for that which is lusty and good. Excite our growth from strength to strength; teach us, elder brother, how to throw our own Hammer, and slay the giants who oppose our will. WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL, DONAR, as we honor the Donar that resides in us all!

*source: combination AFA Book of Uncommon Prayers, and C.Reimer/V.Elmersson
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Alaf Sal Fena!
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January/Hartmânôd 10, 2017 Wodanstag

1/11/2018

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(Hartmânôd = Harsh Month)
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Plans: my love my fiancée, work 8hrs
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Ancestor Meditation: Wodanstag/Wodan’s Day/Wednesday (grandparents, Mother) David F. Schmidt (1895-1957) and Mary Goertz (1888-1983)
David F. Schmidt (1895-1957)
Birth 28 Feb 1885 in Lehigh, Marion County, Kansas
Death 1 Oct 1957 in Marion County, Kansas
*Married 22 October 1922
Mary Goertz (1888-1983)
Birth 17 March 1888 in Kismet, Kansas
Death 27 Dec 1983 in Marion County, Kansas
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I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me.  I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you’ve provided. I look forward with eager anticipation to the great family reunion on the other side.  I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Naudiz: The Rune of Need (whether mortal, emotional, spiritual), a Wurtâ Rune, forced friction, a stress indicator, opportunity for change, urgency, a generating force for the greater good, friction, transformation, resistance leading to strength, perseverance to endure, eventual peace within the Self, accept the unchangeable, an evolutionary change toward a more holistic state, Fate.
*A2R2
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Ur:
Havamal 146.
Another I name, that all need to have
Who officiate as curing healers;
Know yourself, and you will know the world,
And learn to discern between evil and its causes.
 
Self-knowledge/awareness, all-knowing, discernment, the primordial, eternity, primal fire, primal light, primal, primal bull, recognize the cause of an event, healing. that which is grasped or permanent, medical help, the healing powers of medical drugs, nurturing at the original basis, original cause, origin, root of all material and cosmic phenomena, contact with the transcendent, contact with the dead, life after mortal death, Mother-God, Creative Mother Principle, a physician’s rune and represents resurrection, eternity, and continuity, root of all material and cosmic phenomena, root of eternity, causality; the origin of time, cause and effect in the eternal power of becoming.
“Know yourself, then you will know all” (List 50).
*H1R2
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Interpretation: stress (Naudiz) leads to discernment (Ur).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 7hrs of sleep with only one wake-up…nice
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A banana and a breakfast sandwich
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Tried to order new checks form the bank to utilize a 15% discount. Fuck it!  The aggravation isn’t worth it. 
*Naudiz/Ur
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Researched Science Diet prices.  I tried to negotiate with PetSmart; difficult.
*Naudiz/Ur
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HOLY SHIT!  I haven’t sent in my mortgage payment for this month.  Done.
*Naudiz/Ur
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Brief good morning chat with my love my fiancée; the morning is moving on.
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I fucking hate my computer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Toby and I out for a well behaved, noon hour, 30min walk.
*mild, cloudy, hela-stout south wind.
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Fuck ‘em.  I don’t need PetSmart.  I’ll order Toby’s food from Chewy.com.
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More communication with Let’m Eat Bräts to cater our wedding.  We’re getting closer.
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Leftover brats and kraut, but I HAD to have a bowl of my hobo stew I just made.
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35 min prior to going to work, the Mormons showed up to invite me to church…HAHAHAHAHAHA.  If they would’ve showed up over the December break like I explained to them, I would’ve visited with them, but not now.  Silly Mormons.
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There’s this guy at work.  I think at one time, he was being tagged for lead-man, but evidently that has changed as he’s taking on another position elsewhere.  Good thing.  He’s an asshole.
*Two hot orders on the table shaper, but other than that, it was smooth sailing.
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48degF with hela stout winds on the way home.
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Last check on all fur-kids.  Socks outside, Socks back inside.  Oh, a bit of rain.  Smart Socks.  Be like Socks.
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Shower, bed, nighty-night.
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God/dess Meditation: Wodan; Alle-Vater god!  Wandering god!  Rune god! Wolf god! Raven god! Wodan!! Husband to Frija, the Alle-Mutter.  Son to Paru and Bezzia, brother to Willo and Wîh; We call out to you, not as slaves or on bended knee, but on our feet and open-armed as befits your offspring. Watch us as we struggle, but the fight and fame must both be ours! Grant us that victory which we win by OUR might and mane! After a life battle-worn, Wodan, grant us access to our Great Ancestral Hall, where we may feast, drink the glorious mead and be merry with our heroes and our Altmâgâ. WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL, Wodan, as we honor the Wodan that resides in us all!
*source: combination AFA Book of Uncommon Prayers, and C.Reimer/V.Elmersson
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Alaf Sal Fena!
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January/Hartmânôd 9, 2017 Dienstag

1/10/2018

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(Hartmânôd = Harsh Month)
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Plans: my love my fiancée, Niece loan, work 8hrs
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Ancestor Meditation: Dienstag/Thing Day/Tuesday (grandparents) Henry E. Reimer (1898-1967) and Maria Hildebrand (1895-72)
Henry E. Reimer (1898-1967)
Birth 15 May 1898 in Medford, Grant County, Oklahoma, USA
Death 26 Mar 1967 in Hesston, Harvey County, Kansas, United States
*Married 2 June 1920
Maria Hildebrand (1894-72)
Birth 30 Dec 1894 in Marion County, Ks, USA
Death 22 Jul 1972 in Newton, Harvey County, KS, USA
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I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me.  I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you’ve provided. I look forward with eager anticipation to the great family reunion on the other side.  I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Gebo: The mystical union of gift and giver, repay gift for gift, generosity, a fair exchange between people or gods and the Luck that accompanies it; freely exchanged, obligations, contracts, relationships, sometimes sexual, sacrifice, and hospitality, do not take more than we are willing to give, the voluntary sacrifice of resources.
*A1R7
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Tyr: 
Havamal 156.
A twelfth one I sing, when I see through the brush
The hanged one swinging from the hemp;
He climbs down from the trunk, must tell me his tale
When I carve the Runes right.
 
Rebirth, renewal, rising from the ashes, excitation, revelation, mysteries revealed, sacrifice, rebirth of the Sun god, fertility and/or destruction, generation, power, success, wisdom, duties fulfilled, art of concealment and hiding, rebirth into the light - life of the soul, the power to make situations turn completely around, spiritual understanding, the power of regeneration, warrior strength, justice, balance, personal sacrifice of the father, resurrection/reincarnation/born again; “Do not fear anything, even dying cannot kill you.  Better to die than to be dead alive” (Gorsleben).
“Fear not death - it cannot kill you (List, 58).
H2R6
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Interpretation: gift (Gebo) leads to rebirth (Tyr).
*well let’s hop so.
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: Good morning chat with my love my fiancée.  She’s busy with catch-up with her employer.
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A banana and a breakfast sandwich on a whole wheat English muffin.
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FedEx for a copy of my loan agreement with my niece.
Veterinary for script
Bank; cash for niece
Met niece at the Mail Room for notary
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It’s been so long since I’ve paid bills online, I hope I did it right for my niece.
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Toby and I out for a fairly stubborn, early afternoon, 30min walk.
*mild, mostly sunny, stout south breeze.
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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Barely enough to keep me busy on the table shaper all shift.
*texting with several people over the dinner break.
**wedding plans
**it seems my sister has decided to fight on for another day.
***Gebo/Tyr
 
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Shower, nighty night
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God/dess Meditation: Holle, magnificent German goddess, you who seem to be the perfect counterpart to Alle-Vater Wodan.  Just like Alle-Vater, you come to us with many names.  Just like Alle-Vater, you appear to us with many faces.  You have become known to us through place-names, fairy-tales, sagas, legends, poetry, customs, traditions, mythology, and yes, even food.  You are the young maiden.  You are the Old Crone.  You are everything in between.  You reward the diligent worker.  You punish the slothful.  Your Spirit permeates humankind.  We recognize you as a German Goddess!  Alle Mutter Holle, Goddess holy and wise, We give you a most HEART-FELT HEIL, as we honor the Holle that resides in us all. 
*C. Reimer/V. Elmersson
**Replaced Scata's meditation 3/12/2016.
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Alaf Sal Fena!
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January/Hartmânôd 8, 2017 Manostag

1/9/2018

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(Hartmânôd = Harsh Month)
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Plans: my love my fiancée, Veterinary, YMCA, work 8hrs
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Ancestor Meditation: Manostag/Mano’s Day/Monday (parents) Elmer H. Reimer (1924-1963) and Anna M. Schmidt (1926-1994), Jewell F. Reimer [(sister) (1947)], Michael L Reimer [(brother) (1948-1997)].
Elmer H. Reimer (1924-1963
Birth 24 October 1924 in Whitewater, Butler County, Kansas, USA
*US Navy veteran, Joint Intelligence Center, Pacific Ocean Area (JICPOA)
**Naval Intelligence Office, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
*Married 23 June 1946
Death 10 October 1963 in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, USA
Anna M. Schmidt (1926-1994)
Birth 20 January 1926 in Lehigh, Marion County, Kansas, USA
Death 23 September 1994 in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, USA
I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me.  I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you’ve provided. I look forward with eager anticipation to the great family reunion on the other side.  I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Inguz: Ing-Fro, the god of Ar; prosperity, abundance, sexuality and fridu, gestation, the womb and the tomb, fertility, fruitfulness, peace and plenty, internal growth, personal development, solitude, well-being, nature wisdom, process/manifestation of creativity; wholesome, healthy sexuality, sacrifice for the positive, potential, completion of one stage and progressing to the next, internal/spiritual growth, enhancing male energy.
*A3R6
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Os: 
Havamal 148.
The fourth one I know, when a foe has tied up

My arms and hands;
The fetters fall from my leg, when I chant that song,
And off my hands the ropes come.
 
Freedom from bondage, the power of speech/song, mouth, arising, ashes, that which is offered, Wodanic energies, leadership, mouth, speech, the effort to convince, deed following the word, the Divine Breath, kingship, discussion, idea of that which is given/evolving, the spiritual power that is gained through speech, it is the breath of the world, its voice, strength that a person needs to rise-up in power, freedom from the bondage of the material world.
“Your spiritual force makes you free” (List, 51).
*H1R4
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Interpretation: Fertility (Inguz) leads to freedom (Os).
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1st check on all fur-kids; beginning the practice run in prep for Toby’s switch to Science Diet Derm Defense.  While Toby is still on cat food and will probably switch over to Derm Defense, Essie is switched over to Sheba https://www.sheba.com/products#variety.  Socks will now get what Essie doesn’t finish.
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Call into Air Capital Veterinary to get the script for Toby’s Science Diet Derm Defense
Call into the VA to reschedule my Dr. appointment that THEY cancelled for some reason.
*no more Dr. Reddy, I figured that’s what happened
*Lab 2/19, appt 2/22 11AM
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Blackberries, a banana, breakfast sandwich on a whole wheat English muffin.
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Separated recyclables
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I still keep a flip phone for emergency calls.  While on Toby’s walk, my flip phone sounds for an appointment.  WTF?  OMGs…dentist appointment!  As we were a little more than a block away, I hurried Toby home to make that appointment.
*well Hela, that may have shot my chance at going to the Y.
*yup, did…
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Just a routine check-up and cleaning at the dentist.
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Placed an order on Amazon
*waterpik
*Gotham 3rd season
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Toby and I out for an early afternoon 30min walk.  Toby found a steak bone that caused me grief.  I took him home after 20min of frustration then finished 10min on my own.
*cool, sunny/lite clouds, slight south breeze
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Call into Air Capital Veterinary; won’t make it today to pick up the script.
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All meat burritos with onions, refried beans with cheese
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Nowhere near enough to keep me busy on the table shaper.  I didn’t venture onto it; however, kept busy enough in layout.
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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PTA shower, nighty night
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God/dess Meditation: Mano, god of the moon:
Greetings to you, Mano, glorious male aspect of the moon; silver messenger on high.  You’re the measurer and teller of time.  You’re the counterpart to Sunna, the feminine aspect of the sun.  As you fly silently on your way reflect into our souls the glory of the High Ones that we might aspire to the realms of the gods. Bathe our world in soft brightness, and whisper to our souls of joyous realms beyond our knowing. Mano, let us see the goodness within us and without us, all the nights and days of our lives.  WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL, MANO, as we honor the Mano that resides in us all!

*source: combination AFA Book of Uncommon Prayers, and C.Reimer/V.Elmersson
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