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newbie
4 posts
Location: Bloomington IN, USA
newbie
4 posts
Location: Bloomington IN, USA
Posted:
My sister called me and told me she met some firespinners at a party she was at. I suddenly remembered that I had moved from a redneck little town to Bloomington, IN, the liberal Mecca of Indiana. Of course there were spinners here! (tossing my hands up)!! I'd grown so used to being the only one in my town that I'd actually let it take a backseat (sigh of shame). I hadn't spun fire in almost a year and a half! Anyway, I'm very excited to be back. I hadn't looked at the website in probably five or six years. From the videos I'm seeing, it looks like the lengths of poi have gotten shorter, the moves faster, tighter, and overall more dynamic, and all in all I've got to say I'm pretty intimidated!! But it just means I've get to learn that much more (chuckling) and I'm excited to do it.
SO, me, um, my father is Egyptian, but I didn't get a year round tan (damn it!) I call myself a whole-wheat cracka. I've been spinning off and on for 5-6 years now. I'm a student at IU, I have no idea what I'm doing but it looks like it'll be ten years before I'm done doing it if I keep takin time off whenever I want.
Fire's my heart. Fire's my soul. Fire's my friend and my teacher. It heats the stones for my sweatlodge, it lights my camp when the dark tickles at the back of my neck; it keeps me company, it keeps me warm. I wish I could cup it in my hands, I wish I could drink it down. Its beautiful and its awesome, I have the depest respect for it, and I hold it in the highest regard.
Ok, I'm not sure if that is what they ment by introductions forum but there you go, can't hurt one way or another.
Name: Abdullah
Country: US
Hometown: Bloomington
DOB: July 24 1982
Age: 23
Sex: Male
Occupation(s): Student/Seeker
Favorite Food(s): Spinach
Favorite Color(s): Green
Toys: Poi. Bikes. Books. Tools.
Hobbies other than the obvious: Mtn biking, sewing, woodwork, jewlery making, survival
Education: working on Sociology major
Favorite Book(s): the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Tao Te Ching, A Wrinkle in Time et al. Narnia chronicles, etc.
Favorite Movie(s): CastAway
Favorite TV show(s): Colbert Report
Plans for life in general: (i.e. what you want to do when you grow up) Figure out what it means to grow up and whether I want to do it or not. That and live off grid, that suckers going down.
Favorite Music Artists/Composers: Ani DiFranco, Radiohead, Tool, Counting Crows, Sigur Ros, Nine Inch Nails, Tori Amos, Yann Tiersen, etc.
My sister called me and told me she met some firespinners at a party she was at. I suddenly remembered that I had moved from a redneck little town to Bloomington, IN, the liberal Mecca of Indiana. Of course there were spinners here! (tossing my hands up)!! I'd grown so used to being the only one in my town that I'd actually let it take a backseat (sigh of shame). I hadn't spun fire in almost a year and a half! Anyway, I'm very excited to be back. I hadn't looked at the website in probably five or six years. From the videos I'm seeing, it looks like the lengths of poi have gotten shorter, the moves faster, tighter, and overall more dynamic, and all in all I've got to say I'm pretty intimidated!! But it just means I've get to learn that much more (chuckling) and I'm excited to do it.
SO, me, um, my father is Egyptian, but I didn't get a year round tan (damn it!) I call myself a whole-wheat cracka. I've been spinning off and on for 5-6 years now. I'm a student at IU, I have no idea what I'm doing but it looks like it'll be ten years before I'm done doing it if I keep takin time off whenever I want.
Fire's my heart. Fire's my soul. Fire's my friend and my teacher. It heats the stones for my sweatlodge, it lights my camp when the dark tickles at the back of my neck; it keeps me company, it keeps me warm. I wish I could cup it in my hands, I wish I could drink it down. Its beautiful and its awesome, I have the depest respect for it, and I hold it in the highest regard.
Ok, I'm not sure if that is what they ment by introductions forum but there you go, can't hurt one way or another.
Name: Abdullah
Country: US
Hometown: Bloomington
DOB: July 24 1982
Age: 23
Sex: Male
Occupation(s): Student/Seeker
Favorite Food(s): Spinach
Favorite Color(s): Green
Toys: Poi. Bikes. Books. Tools.
Hobbies other than the obvious: Mtn biking, sewing, woodwork, jewlery making, survival
Education: working on Sociology major
Favorite Book(s): the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Tao Te Ching, A Wrinkle in Time et al. Narnia chronicles, etc.
Favorite Movie(s): CastAway
Favorite TV show(s): Colbert Report
Plans for life in general: (i.e. what you want to do when you grow up) Figure out what it means to grow up and whether I want to do it or not. That and live off grid, that suckers going down.
Favorite Music Artists/Composers: Ani DiFranco, Radiohead, Tool, Counting Crows, Sigur Ros, Nine Inch Nails, Tori Amos, Yann Tiersen, etc.
The Dreamer dreams of Dreamers dreaming the Dream the Dreamer Dreams. We are all
Dreamers. Drink it down, Eat it up.
GOLD Member
Gromit's Humble Squire
4,496 posts
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Gromit's Humble Squire
4,496 posts
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Posted:
Hi and welcome to HoP Abdullah
!
Sigur Ros is wonderful.. I really like Amina too (the string quartet who tour with them)
.. Heard them?
Hi and welcome to HoP Abdullah
!Sigur Ros is wonderful.. I really like Amina too (the string quartet who tour with them)
.. Heard them? BRONZE Member
newbie
4 posts
Location: Bloomington IN, USA
newbie
4 posts
Location: Bloomington IN, USA
Posted:
No, I haven't, but I will go and find them right now (string quartet? heck yeah!)
No, I haven't, but I will go and find them right now (string quartet? heck yeah!)
The Dreamer dreams of Dreamers dreaming the Dream the Dreamer Dreams. We are all
Dreamers. Drink it down, Eat it up.
BRONZE Member
newbie
4 posts
Location: Bloomington IN, USA
newbie
4 posts
Location: Bloomington IN, USA
Posted:
PS Amina is one of my cousins names in Egypt
PS Amina is one of my cousins names in Egypt
The Dreamer dreams of Dreamers dreaming the Dream the Dreamer Dreams. We are all
Dreamers. Drink it down, Eat it up.
BRONZE Member
grumpy poorly froggy
3,999 posts
Location: Nuneaton, United Kingdom
grumpy poorly froggy
3,999 posts
Location: Nuneaton, United Kingdom
Posted:
Hey and Welcome to HOP
just do what i have decided to do and never grow up, just get older
Hey and Welcome to HOP
just do what i have decided to do and never grow up, just get older
Life's too short to worry about where you put your marshmallows
GOLD Member
Sneaking
1,207 posts
Location: Free falling through time, United Kingdom
Sneaking
1,207 posts
Location: Free falling through time, United Kingdom
Posted:
to HoP, would you like a chocolate fish and some cheesecake?
to HoP, would you like a chocolate fish and some cheesecake? Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you land among the stars
GOLD Member
now available in "advanced"
6,086 posts
Location: Cornwall, United Kingdom
now available in "advanced"
6,086 posts
Location: Cornwall, United Kingdom
Posted:
Hello! Welcome to HoP!
Hello! Welcome to HoP!
My state of mind is not yours to define!
There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
GOLD Member
sneaky little kitty
251 posts
Location: Missouri, USA
sneaky little kitty
251 posts
Location: Missouri, USA
Posted:
hello and welcome!
your bday is 2 days after mine!! yeah July!
i thought the book of the dead was the necronomicin (sp?)
anywho i always like when we get more usa-ers here.
hello and welcome!
your bday is 2 days after mine!! yeah July!
i thought the book of the dead was the necronomicin (sp?)
anywho i always like when we get more usa-ers here.
you want the truth? you can't handle the truth!
mmmmm...cheesecake
Carpal \'Tunnel
7,193 posts
Location: in the trees
7,193 posts
Location: in the trees
Posted:
thats what i thought............it's pages are made from human flesh and it's written in blood..........they made a film about it so it must be true
Written by: boobookittyfudge
i thought the book of the dead was the necronomicin (sp?)
.
thats what i thought............it's pages are made from human flesh and it's written in blood..........they made a film about it so it must be true
BRONZE Member
newbie
4 posts
Location: Bloomington IN, USA
newbie
4 posts
Location: Bloomington IN, USA
Posted:
I can imagine that the Necronomicin could be referred to as the book of the dead, but what I am refering to is a text whose actually name is The Book of the Dead (and you can buy it at Barns&Nobles, whom I dare say would sell human flesh in any form)(chuckle), which is a set of scriptures written by ancient egyptian scribes on papyrus and tomb walls. I'm not sure what makes them a bood instead of a compilation of writings, but there are many translated versions and they have the same chapters so imagine there is a reason for it being a "book". If anyone's interested, the Normandi Ellis version frees the text up into the most amazingly vivid poetry I've ever read, simply awsome:
Westy, nothing would hit the spot more, Do you have any black coffee to go with the cheezcake?
BooBoo, that makes you a Cancer directly on the cusp, right? Did you know that us cancer/leo cuspers are supposed to be the most conflicted of all? (laughing) I'm really back and forth on whether thats really true or not (making ironic joke that would work better with some facial expressions showing deep conflict)(deep sigh and lots of brow rubbing).
I can imagine that the Necronomicin could be referred to as the book of the dead, but what I am refering to is a text whose actually name is The Book of the Dead (and you can buy it at Barns&Nobles, whom I dare say would sell human flesh in any form)(chuckle), which is a set of scriptures written by ancient egyptian scribes on papyrus and tomb walls. I'm not sure what makes them a bood instead of a compilation of writings, but there are many translated versions and they have the same chapters so imagine there is a reason for it being a "book". If anyone's interested, the Normandi Ellis version frees the text up into the most amazingly vivid poetry I've ever read, simply awsome:
Westy, nothing would hit the spot more, Do you have any black coffee to go with the cheezcake?
BooBoo, that makes you a Cancer directly on the cusp, right? Did you know that us cancer/leo cuspers are supposed to be the most conflicted of all? (laughing) I'm really back and forth on whether thats really true or not (making ironic joke that would work better with some facial expressions showing deep conflict)(deep sigh and lots of brow rubbing).
The Dreamer dreams of Dreamers dreaming the Dream the Dreamer Dreams. We are all
Dreamers. Drink it down, Eat it up.
SILVER Member
The lone Fire Spinner
236 posts
Location: Channel islands Jersey UK
The lone Fire Spinner
236 posts
Location: Channel islands Jersey UK
Posted:
(runs in and nicks a bit of westy's cheesecake)
Welcome to HOP Abdullah 
The forum for the friendly,talented and insane
(runs in and nicks a bit of westy's cheesecake)
Welcome to HOP Abdullah
The forum for the friendly,talented and insane
To play it safe is not to play
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