*I kneel, drum between my knees, and begin to sing a healing song. Drumming the heart beat, I pray for cleansing of this space*

Seriously ya'll, our spirituality is our hearts, and while we can venture down different paths, we must each travel our own road. I ask you all to take a deep breath and quiet yourselves, just for a moment. Arguing isn't normally spiritually advancing, so instead, I'm taking a moment for a prayer. For all of you, the people I love, the people who try my patience, and the people I don't understand, here is some peaceful, happy energy. I invite you all to say a prayer for each other too. It doesn't matter what god you do or don't pray to- if it is, you're welcome not to join.

Blessings, and love, to you all

Yes, in our arrogance to voice our views and further our own personal agendas we may well have driven the host of that thread clear out of cyber space.

I confess to being guilty as hell on this one myself.

As some have often said, being tolerant of intolerance is one of the most difficult things to master. Something we must all keep relearning over and over again.

Thanks for the prayer Sister Shaman.

And my sincerest apologies to USM24

Hey Shaman,

Keep it fairly simple to start with and I'll gladly join in. Whoops ---- zips out for a second.

K, I'm back. Barefoot, way more comfy.


Kneels and then plops down frog style on the ground. Starts swaying and humming along - nice beat...........

Yo, Shaman, do you still have a flute at your disposal?????

*Hides my silver-plated yamaha flute and hands you a simple little bamboo flute* Why... of course I do! As long as you can figure out how to play it! My ocarina got broken or I'd play that with you

Wandering thoughts lend
spirited arguments over
spiritual certainties-

Frustrated hearts close minds-
closed minds damage souls-
damaged souls lose footing,
slide, and forget
We're all In This Together

Not for me, silly wh'oman, for chu!!! I'm thinkin' it would be fun to play with that sound tonight - maybe get some silly pied piper stuff rollin..........

Aw, but I'd rather play Harpsichord!

Ah well, I suppose ancient shamans didn't have harpsichords, and since we don't have a KEYBOARD yet to pretend with I'll play with the flute.

But you have to get your drum out then

Well, we can remedy that. Check this ---- in virtual land, I can have genie status and I can poof you a harpsichord, soooo POOF

Ha-ha, harpsichord away Sham (pronounced with a short a as in ahm).

ooo, thanks for the reminder, I'll call that lady tomorrow, actually, later today and see if we can pick that keyboard up...then we can really play, Wooot!!!

I'll try drum wise, although I'm waayyy better doing flat out voice imitations.

Whatever works- in virtual land and the real world (that's including the basement, lol!) anything goes and in my book, it's all sacred. So rum-pa-pum tak tak doom tak away

Tak, shwash, shwash, (technically brush, but who cares at this point)doom, tak-a, tak-a, doom, shwash, shwashshhhshhh.

And the healing begins....thank you Sister Shaman for this thread..peace I can feel here