Coyote's medicine includes understanding that all things are sacred and that yet nothing is sacred, teaching us that only when all masks have fallen will we connect with the source, illumination, stealth, intelligence, singing humans into being, childhood trust in truth, teaching us how to raise our young, they bring rain, give one the ability to laugh at one’s own mistakes, placing the North Star, shape-shifting, teaching balance between risk and safety, trickster, devilment, cunning, wisdom, folly.

Amongst some native tribes, coyote is referred to as the trickster and there are many tales about the coyote. They are known as the great one and the foolish one - they don’t consciously try and trick us, rather they reflect back to us our own capacity for being clever and stupidity.

When we are being too serious about life, Coyote may appear to teach us to laugh at ourselves and life’s ironies. Be prepared for your sense of humour to arise in full force in line with what is happening around you and to you. They also remind us that whatever we do to others will be done to us. You get back what you give out…

The Coyote teaches how wisdom and folly go together. In others mistakes we see our own foolishness and can learn from their mistakes.

The coyote’s energy is linked to simplicity and trust, spurring renewed innocence and a childlike wisdom in the world. Coyote's howl touches your soul, reminding you of your primal connections. People with this power animal adapt easily to new situations. They also usually have close families, especially when children are involved. Coyotes normally mate for life. They reside in the sides of hills or in underground dens where their family is pretty much safe. Coyote people will sometimes go to extremes to protect and nurture family members. Sharp cutting words that hurt another should be avoided. Energy bursts are common if this is your power animal, balanced action is necessary for overall well being. Coyote medicine people often put other peoples needs before their own - remember to give to yourself equally.

Although they prefer open grassland and thinly wooded brush, they are able to adapt to almost any environment. This means that they have been able to survive and flourish, growing in numbers - in spite of humans interference who for a long time have been trying to wipe out coyotes by trapping, shooting or poisoning them. Condors and other birds have instead almost become extinct from eating poisoned meat! When hunting prey, the coyotes don’t use speed, but rather they pounce and snap their jaws.

If coyote enters your life, you must look at something you have been avoiding. They are mirrors for the lessons we must learn so we are able to walk a good sacred road. The mirror will be held up incessantly until we finally get the picture.

Like coyote, we can either work with others to get what we want, or we can dive into a lake to catch a reflection. We can dispel troubles or invite them carelessly.

If you are stuck in a rut, call on coyote as an ally for negotiation. Or be grateful that he showed you a trap that you are caught in, or a way that you are fooling yourself. Powerful teachers when it comes to relationships coyotes are, as it is when we are in a relationship that we often fool ourselves the most. Coyote is not out to get us, but to teach us, whether we are willing students or not.

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kirstie alley's house

home run

(gender) genre

I didn't take this picture (ha); it's off'a Twitter, but I saw Aggy Deyn a couple of days ago on Irving Place looking something like this.
And I found her hair challenging....I tend to like Agyness (even though she's among those fayshunny Brit/Euro/Aussie transplants to the East Village and Williamsburg whose grasp-on-New York City is so unreal and limited by dum and ca$h, iluuuuusions, the same square foot of 20th century over and over---the CLOY), because she only started getting tons-of work when she was 24/5/6, which is how it ought to be, I think. And I like models to be famous for wearing their own clothes backstage, on the street, at parties--the real mannequin, the Kate model of model. Being Brit, Deyn's pushed punk throughout, while also acting-a-canvas of the 90s revival, a rather natural o.g. sk8terboi progression. When her hair was some inches longer and bleach blond, Deyn was playing at bent gender, working an androgyny that was mild/medium, familiar, easy. Now, dark and buzzed (and it really does make such a difference), she startles one, not because the hairdo is new stuff, but because it's severe, religious?, disinterested in male approval, um (forgive me) lesbionic. And duh the-style-of-lesbianism is a major slice of los 90s. But, though 90s revival has steamrolled out of grunge and into klub kandy kolors and next stop She's All That and curled tendrils of Prom Issue, it isn't everything; it isn't the only thing. There's also the depression-times (and Jersey Shore-times) drawing toward "traditional gender roles" (muscles, cleavage), and the way a certain kind of "differentness"--olde hipster ideas about non-belonging--has turned sameness and testy, mean-eyed, self-interested. I don't know. I'm not trying to say you can't have butch and pin-up on dial at the same time. I'm not trying to be severe or a bitch. I hate to catch myself talking about what other people shouldn't look like.
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I guess, I'm most interested in why a pretty, straight girl with a buzz cut throws me off so much.
It's where I come from, Memphis and girls' school and los actual 90s (not their redux). I remember how/when an earring was a DECLARATIVE SITUATION.
More recently, in art school, one girl (who had it bad for my boyfriend), with no hair on her cabeza and all kinds of hair elsewhere, really stumped me. I'd see her and think, "How do boys know you want to have sex with them?" I'm such a square, right? Though also, I think I'm put-off by gayness-as-a-lark, looking butch but not really meaning it.
Or, that aside, the monkishness, the priestly-ness, the air of sacrifice (como Sinead) is tough to swallow...
What do y'all think? I feel like I'm not saying much...

bless me

Verses

"Whether Bodily Pain Leads Inevitably to Destruction of the Flesh"
The City of God Against the Pagans, Book XXI, Chapter III
St. Augustine
5th Century

Moreover, while these gainsayers observe that there is now no flesh which can suffer pain and not suffer death, at the same time they fail to observe that there is something greater than the body. Surely the soul itself, by whose presence the body lives and is governed, can both suffer pain and be unable to die. There it is! A thing has been found which is immortal, though it has a sense of pain...but if we were to examine the matter more closely, what is said to be the body's pain belongs rather to the soul. For pain belongs to the soul, not the body, even when the the cause of its pain is derived from the body, when the soul's pain is felt in a place where the body is hurt...thus the soul feel pain with the body in the place where there happens to be a cause of pain. it also suffers alone, though it be dwelling in the body...

It has, indeed, been said by the Platonists that earthly bodies and mortal limbs are the source of the soul's fears, desires, sorrows and joys...but we have answered their argument in the twelfth book of this work, by citing their own statement that even souls cleansed from all contamination with body have a disastrous yearning, whereby "they begin once more to wish to return to bodies." But where there can be desire, surely there can also be pain; indeed, desire frustrated, either by failure to attain its goal or by loss of what it had attained, turns into pain.

nota--

I've recently declared Justin Bieber AMERICA(N)....but now I've recalled--last night and I was quite embarrassed--he's Canadian with French grandparents. However, his team, creative and managerial, those who continue to GROOM and write for him, are Atlantan, Usher and them...you know.
Sorry. Thanks!