There was a group of us out on a school trip. We were visiting an old shrine, of a people similar to India, or India mixed with Japan, I don’t know for sure. I was there with a guy I liked, and girl who felt she needed to “Compete” with me for his attention. I don’t think he was particularly in love with me. He just seemed to find my company pleasant.
Best done with a partner.
Sit comfortably. Close your eyes, and take three deeps breaths. Visualize your entire body surrounded by white light. Now imagine white light coming down into the top of your head moving down your entire body, into your neck, shoulders, chest, arms, fingers, pelvis, legs, and down into your feet. Visualize your base chakra, glowing red and opening like a flower, one petal at a time. Fill yourself with the red energy of the base chakra. Move up to the next (Sacral) chakra and visualize orange energy. Work your way up through the chakras. When you finish with the crown chakra, take a deep breath and relax. Visualize the chakras closing into buds one by one from crown down to base. Take another deep breath, and open your eyes. Shake out your hands lightly. Meditation is done.
– Alfrún
1 cup shortening
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 cup oil
½ tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
5 cups flour
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cream of tartar
Powdered or colored sugar
Cinnamon
Cream shortening, sugar, eggs, oil, salt, and vanilla together. Mix flour, baking soda, and cream of tartar in a separate bowl. Add slowly in batches to wet mixture until thoroughly combined. Roll dough into one inch balls, then shape into half-moons, suns, or stars. Or roll out and cut out with cookie cutters. Sprinkle with cinnamon and/or sugar before baking. Bake at 350* for 10 minutes. Makes 8 dozen.
– Alfrún
1 gallon apple cider
1 orange
1 apple
3 cinnamon sticks
⅛ tsp nutmeg
Pour cider into a large kettle. Peel orange, reserving the peel, and squeeze its juice into the cider, discarding the pulp. Tear the orange peel into one inch strips and add to the mixture. Core apple and cut into ¼ inch slices. Add to mixture. Break cinnamon sticks in half, and add to the mixture with the nutmeg. Warm over low heat for two hours. Do not bring to a boil. Serve warm.
– Alfrún