We had a weird incident this year, where one of our members got a phone call that her son had shot himself and fallen into a river. The police were not only unhelpful, they made things worse. To make a really long and unpleasant story short, she went home to find out that her son was actually alive, but had run off to another state to be alone for a while and a friend of his reported it as a suicide. Apparently a bunch of people were in on it, they may have heard a police report about an actual suicide or murder and incorporated that into their story... it was a huge mess.

Other than that though -- causing us lack of sleep, worry about our sister and her family, and schedule changes -- things went quite well. Minus Saturday night, I personally had a very good retreat. Okay, that and and announcing the wrong god because I was following my script rather than paying attention to what was really going on. Okay okay, those and finding out my mom got really sick over the weekend. But it was otherwise a good retreat.

I learned some things -- most of them involve more things that I can, should or must research and do, though I did get one of my burning questions answered. I was also told by Sekhmet -- Who originally told me to see a doctor a couple of years ago -- that I looked better. (But now I need to convince my mom to take better care of herself.) I went to the Seven Arrows baths on the day after New Year and it was quite an experience -- one of them actually had me seeing just fine without my glasses for several minutes. (Scientifically I guess the liquid may have been acting as a lens or dilated my eyes or something, but still it was very cool.) Hopefully the healing, perception, strength, prosperity, stability, magic and victory will all stick around for the whole year.

I'm told this is going to be an even better year for me than last year. And that I need to listen, train my ear, keep working with music. And need to do a bit of research and fill in gaps in my knowledge that, as it turns out, are right in the middle of where I should be.

I miss everyone and wish I could go back to retreat tommorow. I could seriously do this full-time if it paid enough to live on, and if we got some sleep -- we had about 1-5 hours per night, and that on air mattresses and sofas.

Pictures -- far fewer than I took, but a phone is not a great camera -- are here.

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mmmm, full time, can you say "commune"? *sigh*

but honestly, other churches meet all the time, are in each other's houses all the time.

Oy, I miss everyone something fierce, and it was good to meet you finally.

Bella