spiritual...but not religious
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an overview of common concepts and their applications of the "new age" spirituality. hosted by: heebeegeebee healers @ 7:30 and ego
photo by fritz hoddick
randnorm mind grenade
some people believe so intensely in the love they experience from their version of god that they leave little space, if any, for other ways to love. - normurai
randnorm pikcha
normdate 5.5.6.
it was a beautiful day today, perfect for hanging out in the park. i dropped by the dancing bear and grabbed jonas and anke. we stopped off at home hardware to buy chain and keychain rings for the poi that i was making for the two swiss girls i met last night. holy shit the chain is expensive. $2.99 per foot and each poi is two feet long. just the chain alone for a set of poi costs $12+ tax! i've got to find less expensive chain.
we then stopped off at the local toy stoy, serendipity, to buy the knobly wobbly balls that serve as the weights on the ends of the poi. they cost $2.49 each. the last item i needed was a pair of shoelaces for the finger holds on the poi, so we headed to walmart.
i grabbed some rainbow coloured shoelaces at walmart for the finger holds, and then asked if they had any of the knobbly wobbly balls. sure enough, they did...and they only cost 97cents! two knobbly wobbly balls bought at walmart cost a total of $3 less than the local toy store. i know, boo walmart, but c'mon, who doesn't want to save money? for the price of less than two knobbly wobbly balls (i love that name) at the local toy store, i bought four of them at walmart. boo expensive local store, yay walmart!
on the short walk to lakeside park from walmart, i ran into a guy who was kind of a big deal;)
jawesome!
while jonas and anke tossed around the frisbee, i sat at a picnic table by the lake and combined all of the pieces i had acquired that afternoon into two beautiful sets of poi. hmm..these are looking pretty nice. a guy named sam, who i met wednesday night at reggae, kept me company. he's leaving tomorrow for the summer to plant trees. he shared with me some lifted spirits (mmm...lube) and some of his art. there are so mahy talented artists in this town.
i had bought two different weights of chain for the poi as one of the swiss girls requested the thicker gold chain for her poi. it was fun spinning with both the thick gold chain and the thinner silver chain. its still poi, but the thinner chain made the poi feel lighter and spin faster. the thick chain gave a heavier feel to them, a feeling that jonas liked more than the thinner, faster, silver chain. hey, these can only get better the more i make em...and listen to the people who are spinning them. and the rainbow shoelaces were a perfect way to connect the fingerholds to the knobbly wobbly balls with colour.
anke was making us dinner back at the hostel, so we headed back to the dancing bear just before the sun went down...but not before stopping in at the toy store and returning the overpriced knobbly wobbly balls. yay walmart!
on our walk back i ran into my friend dana and his daughter chloe. dana was the instructor for my casi level 1 certification that i took in february. it was good to see him in wamer weather.
i had an incredible telephone conversation with erin (i love you erin, so much!) before indulging in an incredible meal of butternut squash soup and chicken ceasar salad. thank you so much anke.
then i made little cards, almost like labels, for the poi. each one was personalized with their name (natalie and keim), and had a url for the home of poi so they could learn moves online and of course my website.
natalie and keim returned to find us, and their poi, waiting for them in the front foyer of the dancing bear. they were so excited and happy with their poi, which made me feel really good. the personalized cards went over well too.
cost of materials for each set of poi: $16
selling price: $20
the joi of spinning poi: \m/^_^\m/
betcha thought i was gonna say priceless eh?
after a few games of cards, and a game of chess, i headed over to the movement center with anke, jody, and natalie for an spca fundraiser and dance. this family friendly event began at 6pm and went until midnight. we got there around 10:30.
the movement center is a yoga space on baker street. its a beautiful space with hardwood floors and mirrors covering the walls. there were about 60 people there dancing away to some amazing tribal house and breakbeatz provided by juno award nominee and kutenai resident adam shaikh.
the people were beautiful, but holy shit dude, the place smelled like hippie. now i'm all for pese, love, gaia, and living in harmony with the environment, but c'mon man, personal hygeine is important! taking showers and using deodorant helps eliminate that pungent funk that hippies are known for. i guess it comes with the territory: nelson is the hippie shangri-la of canada. goddam hippies!!!
i'm a broadband hippie. i need high speed internet. i shower. i use deodorant. that doesn't make me any better or worse than other hippies, it just makes me smell nicer...cause really, who wants to be around the stinky guy?
~*...normaste...*~
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