Saturday, March 26, 2011

26 March 2011

When the runes say to stay in bed, it might be a good idea to follow that advice...

Uruz reversed, Raido, and Ehwaz offered their sage advices for today.

Uruz is the rune of strength and at some points, we are not strong enough to deal with life and our inner critics.  We can either hide from it or take the offensive from the flank. 

Raido is a journey and part of that journey may require a person to surrender.  Surrender to a commitment I made.  Go into a setting blind and give a 5-7 minute speech to be evaluated by seasoned veterans competing to go to a regional speech contest in the hopes of going to nationals and then international.  Oh ya, they had to have given at least 6 speeches.  I surrendered, I gave my speech that was written for a separate audience in a smaller setting.  I am glad I did it; however, the nice cozy home front would have been more.... more.

Ehwaz finishes off the tri-feca for today.  Ehwaz is the relationship between horse and rider.  At times, they are not in tune with each other and it is a darned good time to just let go.  I was given two evaluations tonight.  The one was great, I got a couple of good points from it.  The second was a 4 minute (evals are only supposed to be 1.5-2 minutes long) tirade about using too many technical words and how I should break it down and use more analogies like packing a suitcase instead of data storage for digital photo files.  REALLY?  A suitcase??   Wouldn't an old Polaroid Instamatic versus a Kodachrome picture had been better?  Or a Sarrat versus a Raffael?  Come ON!  Let it go, let it go.  I must admit though, if I hadn't had the speech training in high school and if that had happened after my first speech, I would have WALKED.  I understand he knew the even bigger technical words and what their acronyms stood for, got it.  Great.  But really?!?!

Enough of that.  Moving on.  See, I shoulda stayed in bed.  Good learning experience though.  Got to meet more people, and some of them were quite nice.  Even need to lose my accent again.  Uffdah!!

Inguz is the task for tonight.  Fertility, Faith, and Renewal.  Look within.  Ask for some renewal.  Have faith, keep it firm.  Life will progress to a new beginning.  What the beginning is, who knows.  Its right in front of us!