Howdy

Whasssup, all you beautiful naked people! Everybody havin' a Hippie New Year? I hope so...

Man, it seems in my absence the original Howdy thread got deleted, tragic! So here it is, folks, "Howdy-part II", hopefully it'll go for a while, and we won't attract spammers this time, but it'll never be what it was, so sad. I actually monitored it briefly over the past few days, but didn't have the time to respond...

...soo, this is my opportunity...

...anyhoo, I came on here last May, stumbled upon this site while lookin' for a VW "love van" to transport the family to the music festivals and such. Never ended up gettin' the van (it didn't make sense from a practical standpoint), but I've sure had a great time on here since May, rivoting deep spiritual conversation. It pains me not to be able to read my friend Steve's words as he's poured his guts out over the past half year, but I s'pose I'll hang in there. Then there's DDR Dave, Mimosa, Sloth, Earthmother, Batmannu, Teepi, Irsis, Marshall, I could go on and on (if I missed anyone forgive me), you folks rock!

Everything happens for a reason. A lot of crazy shit goin' down lately with the people I care about most. A close relative of mine, who's like a brother to me, just went into rehab for booze, his wife's leaving him, and his life's pretty screwed at this point. Another old buddy of mine whom I hardly see anymore got thrown out by his wife due to a coke habit that was ruining their finances. One of my best paddle buddies got his shoulder ripped out of the socket the other day while we were creekin', and I just found out one of my best buds on this forum has some heavy news, jeez, talk about transition! What's next? I do have a lot of hope for this year though, it's gonna be a good one if things continue to shake and move, and they will...

...I guess we need to embrace change, let it flow, it always takes us somewhere, and every time I've been attached to something I've been heartbroken or disappointed, so why should a freakin' thread be any different? I mean it's just a freakin' thread, right? It's like that Budhist principle of lettin' go, y'know, you just pick yerself up, dust yourself off, and get back in the game, find the flow, and go with it. The most misery I've had in this life has come from clinging to things, people, power, lovers, toys, stuff, gotta just blow it off, check the bags at the door, you can't take 'em with you...

Damn, what a friggin' pompous ass I am *heh, heh*

Well, if you'll excuse me, this pompous ass is gonna smoke a fattie in your honor...

Peace,

Mark



The opposite of love is indifference

--Steve

 

Sorry to hear about all your grief M.Y. Sure sounds rough. But it is karma. We have to learn and grow from it. Had quite the shitty year myself so I feel for you. Hope this year is a better one for you. Smoke that big fatty and I'll smoke one too. Here's to 2006!!!!!!

 

Thanks, VillageSam, and you're right, it's all about karma. I almost feel guilty that things have been so good for me lately, with all these crises happening, though I've paid my dues, so I guess it's time to draw on that karmic bank account I've been investing in all this time...

 

Hi Mellow and Sam,

Good to see the spirit of the HOWDY thread is still here.

Yes Mellow...it's all life's lessons.
We are blessed when an obstacle is put in front of us...alot of times it is a stepping stone to something more...sometimes a wall we have to overcome to get to the next point...sometimes a door that is shut so we have to find another one that leads to the next chapter...

Support your friends, it is a blessing when you are given the opportunity to be leaned on. Service unto others is the true meaning of us all being here for each other.
Sometimes we really need a good horrible load of shit to see we are not keeping a good flow in our lives.

Years ago I was with a man..was with him for 15 years...14 of those we spent making each other and ourselves miserable. I left..he left..we always ended up back with each other...there is a connection between us.
But sometimes we loose sight of what the connection really is and mistake it for something its not.
Other times we are supposed work something cosmic out...
Anyway...this man and I got to the point of realizing we are better friends than lovers.

Good things came from that whole deal..rotten things showed up too.
But I did learn alot about myself and how screwy I had love confused with lust and codependency.

So hopefully your friends who are having trouble with feelings and emotions and trying to block them out with substances will get clearheaded enough to make some changes...this is the perfect opportunity.

Do not feel guilty about the blessings in your life, I believe we are shown we are on the right path by the blessings we recieve just as we are shown that our choices are sucking when crap starts showing up.
Some things do seem beyond our control..but there is reason for this also...all things in good time. Doors are shut to give you new direction.

Well I'm typed out for now..and ranting in my own way..
so I do want you to know that I appreciate your input here on the forums and I know that you are a blessing in my life.

teepi

 

Sorry your thread was lost Mellow Yellow. As one door closes another
opens and we keep moving on.

Touchin' down in New England town
Feel the heat comin' down
I've got to keep on keepin' on
You know the big wheel keeps on spinnin' around
And I'm goin' with some hesitation
You know that I can surely see
That I don't want to get caught up in any of that
Funky shit goin' down in the city

 

Thanks Teepi and Mana, your words are wonderful as usual, but bear in mind my intent in the opening post was one of humor (at least partially), though it was sincere. No, I'm not really all that vane and self-absorbed (or am I ). As if that wasn't hard enough, not only did I lose my thread, but the 100 or so posts of credit I had from it, 'seems I'm a third less the "hippie" I was before my loss .

I know about the codependency thing, believe me, took me a miserable marriage, then a divorce seven years ago to figure it out. It cost me, but it was worth it, freedom always seems to come at a price, y'know?

But the karmic bank account is paying off now that I'm with my soulmate of over four years, whom I'm about to be married to this Summer. We have a couple beautiful kids, we're best friends, and the passion's still where it was when we started...better even!

Be well, keep it real, and always maintain a sense of humor,

Mark

 

What a great, mysterious school planet is earth !

Going home - no matter where the journey takes us - by solving the step, and lesson that took us right here - without being a step, it may become another movement towards home then. And so we grow.

For me (the back room washerwoman) this was a great lesson indeed - seeing the challenge you had with it and the sorrow it was hard to accept. I felt the pain.

Sometimes all we can do is be Here, without expectations.

May there be healing for all

Much love

 

"Without expectations," that's the key, I feel karmically cleansed somehow, like the laundry I hung out there got folded and put away, thanks for putting that in perspective, Moving_cloud...

I dunno what it is, but I feel good today, my mojo's rising, now that this sickness I've had for the better part of a month seems to be letting up, plus the holidays are over and it's back to "reality"...time to return to the balance...

 

Hello Mellow... Please tell me more about this photo in your gallery:



Damn - I wanna dive in!

 

Yeah you do, that's the terminous of the Havasu Canyon in Arizona, an amazing place, the water's chrystal clear and deep. About 100 feet down from there is where the Havasu Canyon meets the Grand Canyon.

It's a tough place to get to (but worth it), you gotta either run the Grand Canyon in a raft or such, or do what I did which was to get a back country permit to camp below the Havasupai Indian Reservation. It's like a ten mile hike down into the canyon from the nearest road to the camp ground between Havasu falls and Mooney falls (shown below). Then it's like another ten mile hike from the camp ground to the Grand Canyon.

I can't believe those pictures turned out so well, I took 'em with a not-so-great camera, then I had to scan 'em in.

Thanks for decorating this thread!

Mark

Havasu Falls:


Mooney Falls:

 

Howdy Folks,
Thoes are delightfully beautiful Pictures Mellow. How enchanting it would be to dwell in such splendor. So close to nature you become one with it and part of all creation flowing gently on the rivers of connectedness, a sparkling jewel in the naval of illusionary dreams of perfection.
What our higher selves see for us in our budding glory of evelutionary Spiritual growth is the driving force of what we are to become. What we precive ourselves to be, we become by example.
To embrace all that is within and realizing letting go will fullfil perfection of the soul, and a step into the light of the inner being that releases whatever karmic influence that's binding growth and spiritual development.

I see the image reflection of a former self
of days gone by
Lift up my eyes and be open to recive change
as realities fly

Let the embers glow and be warmed by them
as you let die
The jealous ego of shelfish pride
that will only lie

Bring forth an effort to be as One
hear the lonely cry
Of faceless hearts looking for truth
coming up dry

Reach out your Spirits, bring them home
on high
Returned to the Mother
from days gone by
sh

 

...and thank YOU Shameless for decorating this thread with your words!

How appropriately those words resonate with my memories of the Havasu, that place is like a spiritual mecca. By day I would hike up along the canyon rim, down through the canyon, or swim in the pools below the falls. By night I would hike down to the top of Mooney falls, smoke a little, and sit in quiet introspection, in a state of geniune inner peace...

...and the Havasupai Indian tribe that resided there had very little in terms of material wealth, yet they possessed more than you can imagine in the spiritual realm...

 

Sloth Outta Here!

 

Carol, check out Mellow's Howdy Thread

Soo sad...

...I'm glad you and Steve managed to preserve most of his words before it happened...


...but, on the bright side, I got some good river time New Year's Eve (that water was coooold!):

 

Sloth Outta Here!

 

ever since I saw Havasu on a map once I knew I will go there one day (haven't yet though). was reading the new Natl Geo magazine last night and they have an article on the Grand Canyon and I think there were some Havasu pics there too. so beautiful. It really draws me.

anyway, HOWDY again!! I am missing the old thread, but glad to see my friends still here....love you all.

 

What the fuck is happening, are we getting picked off one at a time, first Voided and then Mimosa….Is this Forum a bunch of yellow bellies or is this not the forum that is about free speech….Skip, you’ve got to lighten up or you will be left with just a bunch of yes people….Is this what you want?….Every body doesn’t fit into a cookie cutter, we all have our own opinions and isn’t this the place to express them, or am I wrong, can't we agree to disagree?….Can’t we who have formed a brother and sisterhood have a place where we can meet and express our own opinions and converse as a family?….Or are we going to be shut down for our individuality?….What is this, do we all need to take our hats of and sing hail to the Chief?….I think not, if we’re going to get banned and be picked off one at a time, I say go down in a blaze of flaming glory….And that’s all I have to say about it….

 

Dudley, Mellow Yellow, and Mimosa! I would like to thank y'all for welcoming me here! I am now a supporter of Hip Forums, I have met a lot of great people here, Thanks Again!

 

Sloth Outta Here!

 

What in our own consciousness has lead us here. What have we come to learn from this.
We are but humans looking for our spirit.. we are searching for a connectedness that valadates our being.
We cry out an gnash our teeth wringing our hands in delema. We spend our energies patting our 'little mes' and forget why we came.
We are losing our silver thread that hold us to the Universe by projecting ego into unity, there by cutting us off from univesal flow and leaving us to draw on other means of energy, the negative forces that be.
Where darkness prevails there is no light which to follow and so we drift into our own selfish agendas.
Tho we are but puny in the eye of the universe as indivduals, in Unity we are a force to be reconed with.
What will be, will be. Only Great Spirit knows the whole plan. We grasp it in bits and peices trying to make all the peices fit into one beautiful picture, a map so to speak to set our course by.
When we get off course, changes will occure and the scales will be tipped, balance will be lost and the ship will sink. ( so you'd better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone.. cuz the times they ARE a changing.)


Why in the universe would anyone ban Mimosa. I have never heard her say an unkind thing.
I do pray that balance will be restored and we can get back to living and loving.
Blessed Be.
sh