Outlet for my soul

One of my favorite past times with my computer was graphics. Just messing around creating little do-dads and stuff. And I started doing it again. And I feel wonderful.

Also feel better now that I got my knee replaced. I was really worried it was gonna go slow to get better because of the nasty tear jerking pain. It will be two weeks this coming wednesday (11- 16-11) and I am down to using the cane off and on. So I am happy with my progress. I keep wondering if I should sleep with my huge crystal at my knee... ;-)


I am soooooo happy right now.

Returning our bodily resourses to Nature

Three weeks ago yesterday, a good friend of mine died while we where horse camping up in Elk County PA. He was a happy camper, saw all sorts of elk , deer, and bear. Our rides where wonderful. And that is he how he wanted to die. It was nice.

He also wished to be cremated, which he was. For some reason, when I was driving to the doctors this morning, I was thinking of my friend when I passed a cemetery which got me thinking.

While I have been sorting out my beliefs, I have the ashes to ashes mind set. Going past the cemetery, I found there is a bit of a conundrum within my beliefs with burying embalmed people in air tight caskets, especially with a cement sarcophagus. These bodies, caskets and sarcophagi particles are not being readily released back into nature. Its feels like there is a debit of energy being made from not returning it back to nature, by locking it up.

I always thought it was a bad idea just because of the resources it uses up since the mortuary science has improved. Now I kinda feel like Nature has been cheated and what She has given freely is not being freely returned.

I am glad, though, that more people are choosing cremation and scattering the ashes. Its so much more natural. Now I just have to find out the carbon foot print of cremation, although it will be alot less, I think, then the way some other cultures perform it.

Simply Pantheism

Today I went to numerous sites where pantheism seems to be over thought and analyzed to death. To me, each pantheist should have his own personal take on the definition of pantheism and then believe what feels right to him. For instance, physics and science in general feels right to me. also my Celtic spirituality melds nicely with my beliefs.   death life rebirth (as in the Celtic spiral) says it all.  In the bible is says, "ashes to ashes, dust to dust"; not sure what a physicist would say, atoms to atoms, photons to photons?

We must remember that we are made of particles from dying stars, and our mass is pure energy. What could be more sacred than that. It means we are one and the same as everything else.

We belong to no cult.
We are not Nature Lovers.
We don't love nature any more
than we love breathing.
Nature is simply something indispensable,
like air and light and water,
that we accept as necessary to living,
and the nearer we can get to
it the happier we are.

- Louise Dickenson Rich