I took some pics of things that moved me when I saw them on our road trip. I kid around a LOT on the road, but I also stop and just soak up nature and beauty. I love to photograph and I love to paint and draw and use places as locations in my writing. Sometimes, I just want to get in tune spiritually with the land and the feel. Each place has a different spiritual harmonic frequency (that sounds very New Age for a Virgo logic-minded person), but some time sit by the ocean or sit in a snow filled field and notice the different energy that your body and mind feel. It is unique for each locale. Here are photos of some of the "energies" I felt on the recent road trip....
(funeral memento - above - with woven hair of the dead included) Giving up our dead is never an easy task and it doesn't matter what region of the world or what era you grew up in, it's full of rituals and also many superstitions. Let's have a look at how we have handled death - (cemetery bell system - above) During the cholera epidemic in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, people feared being buried when they weren't completely dead. Many reported digging up graves of loved ones to find signs they fought inside the coffin to get out. As this would nearly be an impossibility with the weight of the earth on the coffin and lack of oxygen, the rumors did start hysteria. Patents were put out for these bells that would allow the newly awakened buried person to pull a string, ring a bell above ground that the groundskeeper could hear. Imagine how freaking chilling that would be to actually hear one go off? I had an idea for a zombie story about that but never got aroun...
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