K is for Ken which goes beyond Kith and Kin.

Day 12 of Blogging from A to Z.  Today's letter is K

K is for Ken which goes beyond Kith and Kin.

Kith and Kin, originally our land and people - now family, are a package deal.  There is no choice involved

unless you consider the reincarnationist belief that the soul chooses to whom it is reborn.  But as at birth, the soul promptly forgets that choice however good or arbitrary, the belief is moot.  Our kith and kin for good or ill are ours.

Ah, but ken.  That is a different story.  Here choice enters in, and a large part of who we are is informed by the choices we make.

There are those people we meet in life that we instantly recognize as a kindred soul.  You know them; they know you.  You share a vision of the universe and fall in step for a time or forever.  That is ken.

J is for Jembe Jadding for Jade (haiku)

Day 11 of Blogging from A to Z.  Today’s letter is J.

J is for Jembe Jadding for Jade (haiku)

Primitive Jembe

in hand just jadding for jade

winter's ground yields not.

I is for Id, the Isle of I.

Day 10 of Blogging from A to Z.  Today’s letter is I


Id, the Isle of I.  The Id, unaware, struts, and thinks it stands alone, an isle unto its singular self.  So wrong.  It is but a small part of the greater I Am that is all creation.  

Call that creation, god, goddess, god’us, the ethers, the universe, or the back of the Iroquois's Cosmic Turtle.   Think of Narby's book The Cosmic Serpent, where the twined snakes in old lore represent the DNA that is the map of all things.  It speaks volumes of knowledge that simply is a part of the cosmic consciousness of which we each are but a small part.

We are islands, but just as the sea laps the shore, and the isle continues into the sea, we are all an integral part of  each other.  The very air between us is as alive as we are, as we move through it - from the earth to the very heavens.

Touch a leaf and the stars vibrate.

H is for Horehound Candy, Horehound Herb, and Horehound Music

Day 9 of Blogging from A to Z and the letter is H. 

H is for Horehound Candy, Horehound Herb and Horehound Music.  I remember Horehound candy, but never knew it was a herb much less a music album.  Thanks to Google, I do now. 

I remember sucking on horehound candy sticks, which taste like root beer.  I always liked root beer and as I child I liked candy as well.  Now not so much.  Sugar is so un-PC these days and I’ve lost the taste for it.

Seems the Horehound herb can be brewed into a rather nasty tasting tea, but as it’s a good expectorant and very helpful in getting through a bad cold or the flu, you can hold your nose and take the dose and be done with it.  Think I’ll pass on that one, my colds are years apart anyway.

But Horehound music? Actually Horehound is the name of an album by The Dead Weather out of Nashville

I'm not sure what possessed this 4-some to name the album Horehound, there doesn't appear to be a single title on it that has anything to do with the herb, the candy, or the tea.  

Oh, well, that's H out of the way, moving on to "I"  tomorrow, and I haven't a clue.   

Hasta la huego, y'all