http://www.owlsdaughter.com/2010/01/happy-new-year-4/ Practical Wisdom for Extraordinary Living Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:22:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.owlsdaughter.com/2010/01/happy-new-year-4/comment-page-1/#comment-2037 Martha Hillhouse Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:10:13 +0000 http://www.owlsdaughter.com/?p=2898#comment-2037 I love to keep the spirit going until January 7 or 8 ----- and it's only this year that I heard that's something that's been done forever...... On New Year's Day I went to my food co-op and stocked up on the stuff for my feast that I'll have tonight: black eyed pea salad, cornbread, turkey sausage and bean chili, collards and rice. And I didn't put out the trash! Thank you so much for all of this info ---- I do these rituals from tidbits of ideas I've heard over the years --- you strung it together so sweetly! I love to keep the spirit going until January 7 or 8 —– and it’s only this year that I heard that’s something that’s been done forever…… On New Year’s Day I went to my food co-op and stocked up on the stuff for my feast that I’ll have tonight: black eyed pea salad, cornbread, turkey sausage and bean chili, collards and rice. And I didn’t put out the trash! Thank you so much for all of this info —- I do these rituals from tidbits of ideas I’ve heard over the years — you strung it together so sweetly!

]]> http://www.owlsdaughter.com/2010/01/happy-new-year-4/comment-page-1/#comment-2036 denise Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:02:44 +0000 http://www.owlsdaughter.com/?p=2898#comment-2036 Oh, how I miss grandma's homemade cornbread and buttery green beans!!! Miss her, too! Oh, how I miss grandma’s homemade cornbread and buttery green beans!!! Miss her, too!

]]> http://www.owlsdaughter.com/2010/01/happy-new-year-4/comment-page-1/#comment-2035 Claire Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:52:29 +0000 http://www.owlsdaughter.com/?p=2898#comment-2035 I agree about it being a special day and magical of course. For me though, I need to personally watch out for where magical gets caught up in overly superstitious. It's a tough line/call and always a "back of my mind" issue. It can become reminiscent of old mental illness problems for myself and others in my family. Also, I think you can always decide that what you need (or even want) to do can be positive and magical. I hate to think of people (myself included) who might need or want to clean their house today (might be the day it gets done and can't be done well another busy day) or people who can't have new clothes today would bring something bad upon themselves. Not to pick and choose, or deny that negative things can happen due to our choices, but I prefer to focus on the positive things we can bring in with our magical thinking, our positive choices, and our right action. I can't go there with washing something today might cause someone to die. Horrible. I can't personally go there with the negativity or for my own previous personal troubles with OCD type behaviors and superstition creating a problem in my life can I afford to worry about "am I supposed to bring this in or out or what?" and "what did I forget to do or not do?" and worse "is this bad thing happening to me because I washed my dishes wearing old clothes?" Yikes. In any event, I thought I would share this because it might help others as well as you in a position of *authority*. I do so appreciate all the information here and know for myself how to pick and choose what works for me best. I do suspect Beth, that you would totally understand and agree, although I welcome further discussion if I am way off base here. Happy New Year! New clothes or not! (She says as the dirt from last year is being swept away in her house. LOL) I agree about it being a special day and magical of course. For me though, I need to personally watch out for where magical gets caught up in overly superstitious. It’s a tough line/call and always a “back of my mind” issue. It can become reminiscent of old mental illness problems for myself and others in my family.
Also, I think you can always decide that what you need (or even want) to do can be positive and magical. I hate to think of people (myself included) who might need or want to clean their house today (might be the day it gets done and can’t be done well another busy day) or people who can’t have new clothes today would bring something bad upon themselves. Not to pick and choose, or deny that negative things can happen due to our choices, but I prefer to focus on the positive things we can bring in with our magical thinking, our positive choices, and our right action. I can’t go there with washing something today might cause someone to die. Horrible. I can’t personally go there with the negativity or for my own previous personal troubles with OCD type behaviors and superstition creating a problem in my life can I afford to worry about “am I supposed to bring this in or out or what?” and “what did I forget to do or not do?” and worse “is this bad thing happening to me because I washed my dishes wearing old clothes?” Yikes.
In any event, I thought I would share this because it might help others as well as you in a position of *authority*. I do so appreciate all the information here and know for myself how to pick and choose what works for me best. I do suspect Beth, that you would totally understand and agree, although I welcome further discussion if I am way off base here.
Happy New Year! New clothes or not! (She says as the dirt from last year is being swept away in her house. LOL)

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