Sadly, Ruby Sara isn't in Chicago anymore, as she's moved back down to Texas. This, however, means I can take toll-free roads around Chicago rather than driving through. I will have an opportunity to visit with the awesome
storyfan in KZoo, though, which I'm very much looking forward to. We've been writing in the same fandoms off and on for some years now. I put in a note to Owen in Providence about visiting the NECTW folks there on my way from Plymouth down to NYC.I have a few folks to visit in NYC, one of whom will be out here later this month. I need to start making a list of places I intend to visit while I'm on the road.
While I was in Europe, I was defeated by my camera's continuous shot setting and finally, today, got it figured out. It's not nearly as fast as my previous camera, but it will do. I missed a fair bit of stuff that I would have liked to get while I was overseas because I couldn't figure out how to turn on the multiple shots function. At least now I will be able to do a little better. It does make a huge difference, given how much my hands shake. I really rely on that setting to compensate for the muscle tremors.
Today I've been having more of the "left eyeball feels splodey" headache. It's not quite bad enough to be disabling and I suspect that it had to do with the snow that came today. It only just now got down to 32f, but it had been raining/snowing much of the day. The streets and the parking lot are clear, but the cars and the grass do still have a little snow on them. I'm sure it will be gone by tomorrow, unless we get more tonight.
Tomorrow is the first of our 10-week VA group sessions in the new year. They know I will be gone for a couple of weeks in February, as I always am, but I wouldn't want to miss tomorrow's session due to either a migraine or snow. Either would be horribly annoying.
I spent a little of today giving thought to compiling my list of Irish deities/heroes who have some association with healing. I haven't actually set pen to paper yet, but have been dredging through my memory banks to get a few listed, along with the context. The headache, though, has made most things a little more laborious than they really ought to be. Staying focused is hard.
- I feel:
cold - Tunes:Kodo: O-Daiko
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But, I'm trying to remember now...there are a few other occasions in which he is said to have had great knowledge of healing herbs and such--I know in the course of his fight with Fer Diad, in the aftermath for the first few nights, they each partake of one another's company, and they share healing herbs between them.
This is a feature that then gets picked up in the British character based on the Hound: Sir Gawain, who in a few texts is ascribed a similar property, but he's also said in Li Conte del Graal to have been a master of healing herbs.
Do you have a DIAS version of TBC? It is in there...in any case, perhaps just a mention would be all you'd need to say, anyway. And, given that the Hound--no matter the circumstances--is the only person who could heal The Great/Phantom Queen of her wounds, that's at least some precedent for thinking of him as a healing divine figure for people now (perhaps even for warriors and veterans especially?), even if he wasn't in the past.
*: I'm calling him that because I can't do the proper diacritics on this keyboard...!