Faith & Spirituality

To observe my Samhain Sabbat, my Wiccan spiritual New Year, and rememberances of my loved dead, I will set an extra dinner plate tonight at the table, then take it out as an offering, placing it under the redwood tree out back. I am looking forward to ritual today with my Circle as well. :)

Mom & Dad
Grandparents
My in-laws
Aunts & uncles
Kit
Rusty
LiLi
Ohfer
Kodi
Brian
Jeordie
Elfin
Schwartzy
Rivet
Irving
Blue Bird
Benjamina

Bless and thank you all for your presence in my life. Your love, trust, comradeship, friendship, lessons in loyalty, steadfastness, inner strength to endure, how to give my love and trust, how to accept love and trust. Being examples of being self-responsible, sticking to my values. I wouldn't be who I am without all of you having been in my life. For a happy and safe childhood with moments in nature to delve into my own spirit and connect with the spirit in the world. Freedom to be me. Sound values and framework. My education. Especially you, Mom, for giving me the gift of reading and loving books. And you, Dad, for accepting me for who I am, and not trying to fit me into your image of what I should be. Loving me through my bumpy self-discovery years, going backpacking with a 50+ year old aching out of shape body, and the joy we shared with LiLi dog. For always being in my corner.

Blessings,
Gypsy
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"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across the grass
and loses itself in the sunset.

- Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator






Mika Dog

"All things share the same breath;
the beast, the tree, the man.
The Air shares its spirit with
all the life it supports."
--Chief Seattle

"If there are no dogs in Heaven,
then when I die I want to go where they went."
~Will Rogers

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress
can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
~~Mahatma Gandhi

A very nice tribute, gypsy.  Though my life has not been touched often by human passing as many have been, those special spirits are:

My father Ed, Vi, Herb, Ernie, Teresa, Charles, Daisy, Gay, Dharma (but forever Arleen to me) and many canine hearts of love, led by my beloved Weimaraner, Duncan.   Special prayers for Dawn, who has disappeared from the VI board after a courageous battle with breast cancer, and who I miss very much.

Barbara