May/Uuunîmânôd 28, 2017 Sunnastag

(Uuunîmânôd = Blissful month)
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Plans: Medford, Ok
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Ancestor Meditation: (picture source: The Mennonite Heritage and Agricultural Museum, Goessel, Kansas)
Sunnastag/Sunna’s Day (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.
(picture added 3/26/2016)
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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: 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: honor (Teiwaz) leads to rebirth (Tyr).
*amazing; same rune, different systems.
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 7hrs of sleep and only one bladder call…nice!
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Front yard time for Essie first thing this morning.
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God morning chat with My Love-My Sorcha
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Breakfast; ham eggs and cheese omelet with hashbrowns.
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Watched a bit of the IMCF championships on YouTube, Chromecast onto my television: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKNV5QxVTjU it really is amazing.
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Toby and I out for a late-morning, exceptionally well-behaved 30min walk.
*sunny, warm, no breeze
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Lowes, to spend my overage card
*sander
*jigsaw
Paid only $10
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Dog-N-Shake http://dognshake.com/ for lunch
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Home long enough to secure the house, give fresh water all around, then off to Medford.
*early in the road trip, I saw a seemingly, fairly young, river snapper https://www.pinterest.com/pin/358036239108854652/ rummaging around on the highway.  Checking traffic, I opted to get out of my car to help it.  As it wasn’t fully grown, it was more easily maneuvered; nonetheless, keeping away from its jaws and claws, which were formidable.  Twice I picked it up, twice it tried to take a piece out of me.  I was still successful in taking it to the other side where it was safe with the standing water.
*@ the Medford Mennonite cemetery, I talked to a really nice gentleman from the area who was also a Reimer.  We talked a bit about my great-great Grandmother Agatha Reimer being the reason I was there in the first place.  I just so happened to still have my genealogy information with me, and was able to show him how my Grandfather Reimer was born in Medford.  We ascertained we weren’t immediately related, but no doubt distantly related.
*Spaghetti and salad from Gambino’s Pizza in Caldwell.
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Walmart Neighborhood Market
Dillons
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Call into my Irminenschaft brother to make arrangements for extended conversation tomorrow @ noon.
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MLS https://www.mlssoccer.com/
Seattle 1-0 Portland
Vancouver 0-1 DC
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Experimented with…*comments for posterity only*
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Sometimes I don’t know WHAT to think…
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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Nighty-night
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God/dess Meditation: Paltar, you're the blameless god, gloriously shining god, rising god, restoration god, husband to the faithful Nanda, beloved son of Wotan and Frija.  Just as you restore Mittigart after Godotuom, restore us after we experience our own Godotuoms of life.  Let your goodness and your reconciliation smooth our paths on Earth. When our days here are over, light up death’s darkness with the promise of rebirth. Help us to avoid evil, and seek the good. Inspired by your example, we will keep our reputations spotless that our lives be proclaimed a victory of the Spirit, and our leaving his life a tragedy. WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL, PALTAR, as we honor the Paltar that resides in us all!
*source: combination AFA Book of Uncommon Prayers, and C.Reimer/V.Elmersson
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Alaf Sal Fena!