From: erik@cs.uq.oz.au (Erik van Keulen)
Newsgroups: alt.pagan
Subject: My crystal exploded!!!
Date: 28 Sep 92 04:27:51 GMT
Reply-To: erik@cs.uq.oz.au

I'm kind-of ashamed of this, but worried enough to be asking everywhere i
can. I was given an amethyst crystal a couple of years ago and, 'cos i've
been taking life easy and avoiding meta-questions and generally bumming
about, i didn't do much with the crystal. This year i ended up in Oztralia,
with a job and my own flat, and i guess i've been heading toward
responsibility... How can i put this? It's like i've been ignoring a deep
song for which i was supposed to play flute or something, and now it's
threatening to give me a headache unless i join in.
I've been restless, and hunting around for what i should be doing. And then
a few weeks ago, my crystal exploded. I'd been carrying it with me for a
month or so; that night i was holding it while listening to some folk
music, and the durn thing "burst asunder" into two halves. The jagged edge
of one half cut my thumb and there was blood all over my hand and i was
rEALLy upset.

Can anyone tell me if crystals explode... "often"? And how worried i should
be? I've started writing poems again, and i've joined the sports club. I've
generally rubbed my eyes and looked around me since this happened, and it
took about a week but i've been laughing a lot again lately. I think i'll
be finding my own way well enough... but is there anything i should look
out for if, hm, if i can break crystals? (I didn't mean to!!!)

Some other stuff...
>In article <10411@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> erik@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
>>My contribution, for now, is that the quote is from a Mama Lion something
>>song about rows of suburban houses. She's written some good stuff. And i

In <Bv5B1w.KLF@nntp-sc.Intel.COM> pharvey@mipos3.intel.com (Paul Harvey)
writes:
>Hmm, it's a folk song about South San Francisco, I thought it was Peter,
>Paul and Mary.

"Reynolds"! Mama (Lion) Reynolds wrote the song, or at least she did the
oldest version i've heard. Isn't she Canadian? She also wrote a hoot of a
song about a mouse which chewed through some computer wires in Buenos Aires
and f***ed the Tax Dept. up or something.
I was at a folk music club last night where a woman sang Reynold's "Andorra"
song:
	"They spent 4 dollars and ninety cents
	 On armaments and self-defence..."

... referring to the annual Andorran budget.

I'm beginning to realise that a lot of what i find exciting and new, most
people on this group probably already know about... Like the song "The
burning times", which i've heard about twenty times in the last three weeks
by different folk bands here in Brisbane. Sigh. I will post the lyrics
anyway when i get them (today or tomorrow), 'cos it's easy enough for
people to ignore messages. The song, like this newsgroup, made me feel that
gee there's lots of honest happy loving people out there who just happen to
bump against social norms more often than not. Like when i watched the
Weavers' film, "Wasn't that a time". It's good to feel you could belong
somewhere you'd like to belong. I guess i'm lucky that this feeling that i
could really belong somewhere and that it's halfway a surprise. Imagine
never feeling that or, perhaps worse, never knowing that the feeling
exists. There's a lot of people out there to whom life just seems to
happen, and i wonder... "Don't they nOTice the holes or what?"

hummmhum tum-te-dah... If i could remember a Pooh-bear Hum i'd be humming
it. Looks like i'll have to make up my own! Life is so good anyway.

(smiles...)
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