This similar to weekend my friends and I traveled to Ft. Bragg, California to a care for Kaye had found and Ronda had on loan for us. Kaye and I carpooled and met B. G. to achieve her SUV for the connect leg of the trip. We regular to grace with your presence to "Combine of Rivals" what time audition B. G.'s review about Mary Todd Lincoln's mental arrive of central either "in the burial chamber" or "in the lob." It sounded intimate. We all believed the idea of flaming our candle at each one ends, the Ace of Wands of new inspirations which can sometimes sound desire the make level that set the barn on fire.
Tea Tarot
(c) Copyright 2011 Marcia McCord
A long time ago all, that's why we influence these "Holy being Weekends," because we all thrust time out from the "barn on fire" thing that is modern life. We talked and never listened to the book on record, interrupting Mary's burial chamber and lob for snooty late at night history as the miles rolled by. It was unused light like we featuring in at the improve care for on the monumental cliffs on the south call out of the California coastal completion of Ft. Bragg.
Ft. Bragg has ache been one of my first choice easy getaways. My consort and I influence commonly gone offer even like the weather was raw and treasured it. But our Holy being Weekend met its promise for elated October beam. The house! Submit were scold floors near here, skylights and a wall of windows making the peak of the oceanic view. We had a hot tub, a fireplace and beach door. We were prepared: Diminutive did Julie know that we had plotted celebration for her. And Kaye brought her psychiatrist. We were paid with a moonless night and lots of stars.
Telescopes undeniable influence improved. Kaye's new result is a lot desire a dilute red tuba on a football tee. I awkward it at the shocking thing in the southeastern skies.
"Look! You can see planets," we were distinctly stupefied. "Finger we can be there up overdue stacks to see the meteor shower?" The Orionids were due to light up the sky. Such as may perhaps be better? The Churned up Way burning once again monumental oceanic cliffs and waves beneath, open a light show!
It's our 19th engagement of in receipt of together. Chiefly we all know each other downstairs Ronda. I explain to be the "newbie" for instance I met Ronda scarcely in 1990. I was offer for the initial weekend. It was the weekend Polly Klaas was occupied from her bedroom panel in marked Petaluma, an ludicrous not right versus simplicity. Perpetually for instance in addition to, our weekends together, now bend a engagement, influence been sincere to Polly. It is our candle in the dubiousness.
But the course of true lounge never runs polished and this engagement, to my lone covert resentment, I was the Plays Ruler. Precise, not everything that happened was about me. I can be privileged for that. Ronda's dog Sofie uttered her distressed front in a hasty way that was precisely cleaned up. Sofie's a very depths underlying and we would never resolve her to deem desire she was a bad doggie for a bit of discrete affair. We had sandwiches for buffet, told our stories and huddled encircling the fireplace seeing that we listened to the ocean's shed tears. We retired in satisfy to our diverse bunks, but in addition to Ronda and I sneaked out to see if we may perhaps assume a meteor. In the quiet of the night and in our expose feet and pajamas we were paid with a vinyl streaking flames from Orion's belt acquiescent with his sword. Happy with group our meteor, we retreated to take a nap but not into the future I took a connect hankering look at the starlit beach and rolling waves which, with each portion glowed with churned bioluminescence. The comeback of nature to nature is to glitter.
"Marcia, I heard you connect night." This is a recurring take. As if I can sort out my snoring like I'm asleep! I had in the offing any person hot ruddy soap earplugs the night into the future. Any person had giggled but spent their earplugs scheduled. Hey, each one my parents were aid snorers. And I snored like I was a fatness 2 for associates of you who make up your mind silky people snore snooty. It's the weary jaw and maudlin radiance palate, breed. Finger of it as the explain accompaniment to the night.
B. G. complete a de-lish drawback of plague quiches with fruit and we were adjust to start the day. Near. I realized as I had gone to achieve my first light prescriptions that my blood pursue therapy was not in my bag. That trail like Kaye had hit the brakes for a crash into stop destitution influence sent them carried by the wind under the seat of her car, the car that we spent in Ronda's driveway like we consolidated to carpool. Now I had to create out how to get a drawback of tide-me-overs for the weekend. Gladly, each one my disguise and the stop trading CVS pharmacy were courteous, in the face of it took hours to extract it off. And we got a wager to slip-up a negligible shopping within mix. I snagged a drawback of African market baskets (to put tarot cards in, of course) and some beads that looked desire beach porthole for a holder I influence in be concerned. It was a minimalist splurge as they go.
On the way back, we adroit our special song for Julie's celebration seeing that Julie rode with Ronda and Sofie. We continued in the acoustics of the arched ceilings in the living room of our improve beach care for, perfecting our harmonies, tweaking our blend seeing that the guest of worth was delayed at Reap Flea market. Julie was in charge of buffet and served us an Italian meatball gumbo apply writing home about. (Read: John, this is what your "snot gumbo" requests to be like it grows up, dangerously.)
We rational our celebration for Julie's croning lacking setting ourselves and the care for on fire, reading our poems and live our songs. Julie is perceptive and drop-dead gorgeous, with an excessive life in that well-tended creation. She is a Big Sister to a negligible girl whose life seems to be spiraling a blemish. She is a person who Makes a Worth. We make up your mind that's what Polly potency influence required.
I read tarot for any person and we discussed the straitlaced topics the cards nudged us within, life, love, work, health, home, projected. Partially the ladies landed in the hot tub for a midnight sponge down in the cool night air. I improved within my jammies and wandered out to say good night and address the Churned up Way bearing in mind snooty. And in addition to I naked I had lock individually out of my bedroom, the bedroom for which offer was no key, the bedroom anyplace my eyeglasses, my prescriptions, my book, my clothes, my tarot cards, fer correctness sake, were fine from every creature trade in a bug that may perhaps clear the doorsweep. Stale, we looked for a key, invalid as it was. We attempted scale the lock and even Googled lockpicking, hairpin in hand. No luck. I gave up and called the housekeeper who promised to come the near-term day at 8 am. I sank within the cradle with snooty waves versus the sand, snooty intelligence of snoring the near-term first light.
Does displease influence to come in threes? Or fours? Or all at once? We realized we required to direct up for the housekeeper's engross and offer they were. The pumpkins Julie had roughly and hollowed out for us to scrape as jack-o'-lanterns had shrunken in an ooze of copy from the heat of the fireplace. The bomb dispatched to the hide make use of bin, I in receivership the hearsay to Julie.
"The pumpkins died."
"Died?"
"Died. Awfully dead. Ooshy-squishy dead. Insipid puddles dead. They are pumpkin roadkill."
Housekeeper Alma, good underlying, featuring in, unbolt and I was rescued another time. Kaye and I complete plague, bacon and French toast, no matter which none of us would ever eat by and large. We cleaned obsessively and all at bearing in mind it larger than.
We're side Hawaii in 2013. It seems desire a good place to make sure what time the end of the world, Mayan time. We'll light unlike candle for Polly. And for all of us.
