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<\/a><\/p>\nIt’s raining outside and cold, a sort of typical New Orleans winter when there is no typical New Orleans winter. Our friends visiting from Spain got to experience 365 days in only four – from humid and hot to cold and rainy. <\/p>\n
Yesterday, before we left to take our friends to the airport, Tatjana rented a pretty cool apartment in the American Can, which means more than anything – swimming pool for Tin this summer!<\/p>\n
After leaving the airport, we had lunch and on the way home I fell asleep behind the wheel and rammed into the van in front of me. A sign of utter emotional and physical exhaustion. The guy got out, looked at me with my beanie and bald head, and said, “No damage, happy new year.” And we continued on our way. <\/p>\n
The next days ahead are on the surface about selling the LaLa. Five people coming today as it was just listed on the MLS. Then an open house on Sunday, where my realtor feels it will sell before the agent’s open on Wednesday. So then I will be looking for an apartment as well. And packing. The thing I loathe more than painting. Because in packing you realize how much stuff you have really accumulated and how much you want to get rid of all of it. It’s only in unpacking and rediscovering your possessions that you realize why you have collected them. <\/p>\n
Also today, my San Francisco friends return from their cruise and are coming over to do a blessing on me, the house, and the lot that I am looking to buy and build a new, energy efficient house on. The LaLa was all about surface beauty – in the form of shiny. The next house will be all about deeper beauty, the more in less. <\/p>\n
My friends from San Francisco are both Yoruba priestesses. The Yor\u00f9b\u00e1 have evolved a robust philosophy. In brief, it holds that all human beings possess what is known as “\u00c0y\u00e0nm\u00f4” (destiny, fate) and are expected to eventually become one in spirit with Ol\u00f3d\u00f9mar\u00e8 (Ol\u00f2r\u00fan, the divine creator and source of all energy). Furthermore, the thoughts and actions of each person in Ay\u00e9 (the physical realm) interact with all other living things, including the Earth itself.<\/p>\n
Each person attempts to achieve transcendence and find their destiny in \u00d2r\u00fan-R\u00e9r\u00e9 (the spiritual realm of those who do good and beneficial things). One’s Or\u00ed-Inu (spiritual consciousness in the physical realm) must grow in order to consummate union with one’s “Ip\u00f4nri” (Or\u00ed \u00d2r\u00fan, spiritual self)…. Life and death are said to be cycles of existence in a series of physical bodies while one’s spirit evolves toward transcendence. <\/p>\n
Their spell already began working when they walked into the LaLa and felt the tension and told me to cut rosemary from the abundant hedge in front and place it on the dining table to absorb negative energy. When placed, the negative began transforming itself into positive action. <\/p>\n
My neighbor, the nun, gave me a bottle of holy water for the ceremony today. And I’m ready, eager for my blessings, accepting of my transformation, and at peace with my transcendence. <\/p>\n
Happy New Year! <\/p>\n
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