From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V5 #251 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Tuesday, October 17 2000 Volume 05 : Number 251 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: weekend fun! [Robin Thurlow ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 00:32:24 -0400 From: Robin Thurlow Subject: Alloy: weekend fun! I've just been informed I have viral pneumonia... and I'm so bored. I really wish someone would post. How has everyone been? (never mind about ot!) You could amuse me with tales of getting to leave the house, if any of you would be so kind. I had a nice dream about Thomas over the weekend, which was symbolic in an interesting way, based on what I've been studying about African beadwork. In the dream Thomas was driving a car, it was a sunny day, and he sort of pulled the car over to talk to me. On his right wrist he was wearing a few bracelets his kids had made for him. One of them had alternating black and red beads. This made me think of something I'd read about a certain beadwork tradition in West Africa. Color is used in religious as well as general garments and jewelry as a way to communicate certain qualities of the wearer or the event to which it is worn. Red is considered a 'hot' color, and black is a 'cool' color. When hot and cool colors are alternated in a piece of beadwork it will usually indicate some kind of spiritual mediumship on the part of the wearer, since a person needs to have the restraint, tranquility and balance of both qualities perfectly intermingled, in order to comunicate within the spirit realm without being harmed. Pretty interesting, I thought. It was nice to see Thomas in a dream, in any case, looking all cheerful and enthusiastic. Any posts would be lovely. How has everyone been? Robin T ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V5 #251 ***************************