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Subject: Re: the solstice & keeping well

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Dreemdanser

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Date Posted: 10:42:27 06/16/04 Wed
In reply to: Lavenderstar 's message, "Good to hear you're keeping well..." on 16:03:11 06/15/04 Tue

The camping trip sounds wonderful, and makes me long for Scotland even though I have only been there once...when my now 15 year old daughter was 4. (hmmm, am I also longing for her being 4 again?) I don't know what I will be doing for the summer solstice. We are still very much in a day by day and moment by moment survival mode with awful issues at home. For those who are keeping us in their thoughts, Spell weever and I are holding strong together and I am grateful every day for the amazing man and partner that he is and how blessed we are to have each other and our marriage....all 5 kids are alive (which lately is saying a lot) and we still have all our parents, too. In light of all that, I know we are blessed despite the awful things we are going through.

As for taking care of myself and keeping well, it is a fight every single day to make sure that I do. I really really understand and forgive myself for the years in which I did not succeed in doing so. For awhile I really couldn't forgive myself for that and was ashamed and really hard on myself for not having taken the bull by the horns with diet and excercise sooner and having wasted so many years being overweight and in poor health....but man oh man I really really understand how I happened and how hard it was to just survive in those years and every single day it is a battle with the circumstances and demands that come at me to grit my teeth and doggedly, determinedly, and stubbornly insist that I do what I need to do to stay in good health. Defintiely not easy and i often feel guilty for my relentless insistance that others allow me to do what i have to do. I am not a low-maintainence type of person...my body and psyche demand a lot to be OK....careful diet, consistant excercise, and an average of 9 hours sleep a night! So it is very tough to be on top of it all with life's demands and intrusions that constantly would thwart my attempts to stay with that. But I am holding my own.

The bon fire when you are camping can be a secret salute to the sun on the solstice!

hugs,
Dreemy

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Subject	Author	Date
Hey, saying bon fire like that made me think...	Lavenderstar	15:38:03 06/16/04 Wed
Re: origins of the term, "bon fire" -- Dreemdanser, 11:10:37 06/17/04 Thu
Re: the solstice & keeping well	Ariana	08:28:59 06/17/04 Thu