KattyWilly

The first time Chelsey and I went to the cemetery it was a drizzly afternoon. We spent just a minute or two there and then were headed off to shop for something. As we headed down the road we saw a rainbow. It was a full rainbow, and as we drove along we started to notice a second rainbow start to appear. It was the most beautiful double rainbow I’ve ever seen.

“The Hawaiians say a rainbow is a promise from God that one’s spirit will be protected when they cross over…that a rainbow is the bridge between Heaven and Earth…”

One of the topics that come up regularly on Widownet is dreams of our loved ones.

“The dreams are never long enough or frequent enough, but we take them, these gifts, however they are given to us.”

We finally have some photos we scanned from the Vans Warped Tour 2003 St. Petersburg stop at the Vinoy Park in downtown St. Petersburg.

I’m officially Warped!

I took Lindsey and a couple of her friends to the Vans Warped Tour festival in St. Petersburg today. It was at the Vinoy park, which is a nice park along the bay down by the St. Pete Pier. We had great weather, that is if you like a lot of hot sun. It did cloud over a little later in the day.

I spent some of my time in the Reverse Day-Care center that they had for parents only. It had air-conditioning, free water, and movies. I did watch a few of the bands, Tsunami Bomb, Vendetta Red, Less Than Jake, Rancid, The All American Rejects, The Ataris and of course the amazing Phenomenauts with the “streamerator, a tricked-out leaf blower, blasts a whole roll of toilet paper out into the crowd in a few seconds.”

Todays show was the third show in a 19 day stretch of shows. I don’t know how they do it. The show starts at 11:00am and runs until 8:00pm. Then they have to break down the 5 stages, the skateboarders half pipe, all the band merchandise tents and pack them up and hit the road for the next days show. I’d love to see a behind the scenes documentary on how all that happens.

Lindsey got a little too much sun, and had a crowd surfer fall on her, but other than that I think we all had a great time. I didn’t bring the digital camera just some disposable cameras so pictures will be coming along in a day or two.

Dave was talking about something unrelated to my specific experience but ends up doing a great job explaining some of the things I’ve talked about in dealing with the conscious mind conflicting with the subconscious. Think about this in relation to the sudden loss of a spouse where the subconscious fights to supress the reality of such a powerful loss.

“That’s why simple stories about people and love are so powerful. Our
reasoning bodies, our intellects, are relatively powerless; compared to the
power of memory, the subconscious. If the intellect is a skinny stick figure
standing on the side of a narrow road, the subconscious is a 16-wheel
semi-truck barreling down the road at 90 miles per hour. Think of the stick
figure waving and signalling, “Slow down slow down,” and the truck keeps on
going as if nothing were happening (nothing is happening).”

In my case the stick figure is me trying to cope with the loss of my partner of 21 years, and the semi-truck is grief (grief monster to my Widownet friends).

http://davenet.userland.com/2003/07/23/onBeautyInWomen

Indian Rocks Beach 2003

Dad I swallowed a bunch of shells! But it’s ok, because then I threw up! 🙂

” If we can’t laugh at what we most fear, what does our laughter count for in the final analysis? This is no joke, of course, but then, so little of this precious life is. ”

http://www.rageboy.com/2003_07_01_blogger-archive.html#105815116156736005

I don’t know if I got too burned, but I did get burned. I’m staying indoors today 🙂 Not really indoors but on the deck out of the sun. The breeze is really nice.

We finally have the dialup working here at the Villa. Dialup sure is slow. We are having a relaxing time. The weather has been sunny and hot. I’m going to try and get some sun without getting too burned.

Waiting for the sunset, but it looks like there are too many clouds out in the gulf tonight.