Friday Kitten and I drove down to Poet’s place in SC. On the drive we listened to an episode of On Being that featured Nadia Bolz-Weber, a Lutheran pastor
who is 6’1”, has tattoos and pricings and used to be a stand-up comic. She is really fun, down-to-earth yet wise,
self-deprecating, and really exemplifies Christianity at its best: charity,
tolerance, and forgiveness. Kitten
really liked her – as did I. My thing is,
I’m less interested in a person’s particular religion as I am in the spiritual,
ethical, and wisdom qualities of that person, be they Christian or Muslim or
Buddhist or Pagan or atheist. But it was
particularly nice this time of year to hear from somebody who really does
exemplify the best of Christian values (not the Religious Right’s talking
points, ignorance, xenophobia, and prejudices – or the crass commercialism of
overly-capitalized, consumer culture).
Friday evening, we went out to a beer tasting and then had a
great home-cooked meal w/ Poet’s parents, and settled-in to watch some Monty
Python before I fell asleep on the couch pretty early.
Saturday was Twisted Toyland in Atlanta
w/ the pack. Our Alpha was back in
town. Which I guess I should explain,
since I’m not sure it I’ve mentioned it on here – but the quick synopsis is:
Recently, Sir Loki divorced, took a new job in DC, and moved up there w/ his
new boyfriend. He’s still the Alpha, we
still belong to him, but the pack is now stretched out from Atlanta
through North Carolina to DC… so
getting us all together is likely going to prove more difficult in 2015. We’re still in the process of figuring out
how best to make this work…
After getting to spend time w/ pack-mates and family, the next
best part of Twisted Toyland was that Ma’am let me put on my puppy gear. Yay!!!
It felt so wonderful to be out in public, on-leash and in my suit, hood,
and indefinitely-borrowed harness. That
really does wonders for my spirit, and I left Twisted feeling like a million
bucks. (Of course, there were also four
fairly strong run-and-cokes involved.)
I’ll post some pictures as soon as I get them.
Saturday night we got to relax w/ the pack at Gwynn and
Bishop’s Safe Haven. There were some
gifts exchanged. Two were particularly
noteworthy: Bishop got to present Gwynn
with her official pack vest. Also, the
pack commissioned from yours truly an anthropomorphic pack portrait which we
gave to our Sir as a Christmas/moving-away/housewarming present. Pictured left-to-right: Gwynn, Sir Loki,
Bishop, Hunter, Shdwkitten, and Emrys.
Sunday was the winter solstice… and wedding day for
pack-mates Gwynn and Bishop! Their
hand-fasting was a really lovely eclectic Celtic/Pagan/Leather-pup mix that was
just tonally perfect. I think most of us
got a little teary eyed. Congrats and
best wishes again to Gwynn and Bishop.
We love you two. And their
“something borrowed” was our Treehouse’s Tree of Life banner which was also the
backdrop in our wedding and they got to use it as their alter-cloth. That made me smile even more.
So after spiritual wisdom/humor and beer Friday, dawning
pup-gear and giving gifts Saturday, and then helping two of our favorite
puppies get hitched Sunday you would think my weekend couldn’t get any better
and I couldn’t get any higher… but I had one more cool event in store. My Owner’s ex-boyfriend Pirate (that’s his
nickname, Pirate) was back in town, and we got to meet-up for dinner at our
favorite sushi place on our drive back home. Well, Pirate wrote a children’s book and I did
the illustrations for the second edition – which is now out, and he gave me a
copy Sunday. I am so pleased with how
the illustrations came out. Love
it! So that was the cherry on top of my
very full, very uplifting, very fun weekend.
Everybody have a very merry Christma-Hanu-Kwanza-Yule!
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