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Plans: fur babies, supper with niece, domestic stuff
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Frijastag/Frija’s Day/An: Frigga’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 to Elizabeth Zülke 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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*A2R5; Aett 2, root 5, Yggdrasil’s root of destruction
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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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Havamal 154:
A ninth one I sing, when dangers at sea forces me
To protect my ship from the stormy waves;
The storm I calm down, no matter how billowing the sea,
And I cradle the waves to sleep.
Calm in the face of distress, comfort, hypnotic power of the forceful will, course of affairs, Rest, Ego, das Ich, Positivity, activity, personal will, self-domination, self-control, confidence, determination, extension of the Divine center, the upright human being, the awakened Self, influence, personal power, magical power, power to banish evil, unity in the Universe, duration, action in the Cosmos, activity, will, self-domination, influence, personal power, self-discipline, unity in the Universe, duration, magical powers, axis/column/Irminsul of the world, action in the Cosmos, elimination of that which is unnecessary, calm.
“Win power over yourself and you will have power over everything in the spiritual and physical worlds that strive against you” (List, 56).
H2R3; Halbdutzend 2, root 3, Irminsul’s root of destruction
*from destruction to destruction.
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Rune Lesson: When we become centered within ourselves, we gather strength. Sometimes with inner strength there is no need to change. Our inner strength is just that; our inner strength is such a comfort. We have nothing to dear. Our life is calm. We rest in the knowledge that we are strong with the force of will to accomplish anything. The storm may rage, but we are stronger than the storm. We rest.
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1st check on all fur-kids: food, water, litterboxes, shelter.
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Outcome: 7hrs of dark, foreboding, troubling sleep with an EXTREMELY slow wakeup and LOTS of Lily cuddles. Lily was just content to suck it ALL up! Maybe she was sucking up all my overnight anxieties.
*Dark, foreboding…OMGs, did Wodan visit me last night?
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Toby’s morning eyedrops
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Call into insurance agent making sure that everything is spot on…and it is.
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Typical open-faced breakfast sandwich
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Online fucking off because I know it’s going to be hot taking Toby out for a walk.
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Toby’s late morning feeding, insulin and Apoquel.
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Toby and I out for a noon hour, well behaved, 3-block roundy
*warm, sparsely cloudy, slight SSE breeze
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Watered the straw-bale garden and backyard shrubbery. I’m worried about my blueberry bushes.
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Toby’s afternoon eye goop
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Online chat/call
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WOW! Excellent time with my WONDERFUL niece and her family at Olive Garden
Party City for rubber duckies.
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Lazy
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Online chat; not our best, but in the end…
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Toby’s 11:30pm feeding, insulin and eyedrops
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Last of Dark Shadows on the Decades Channel (OTA)
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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Midnight nighty night with Lily cuddles.
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Frija, Great Alle-Mutter, MY 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!