Missing post.

This morning I skimmed across the Blog and found a post was missing, "Fire". For what ever reason, possibly my own fault it was saved as a draft. So, it's there. And it is a subject I feel passionate about so, it would touch me deeply if you would scroll on down a few and take a look.

Sweat
Saturday night I went to a "sweat". Simply it's a home made sauna. Build a dome frame drape canvas and tarps over it and you have your "lodge". Rocks are heated in a fire then placed in the center of the lodge. Put water on the rocks and bare it. Indian Style.
The guy's a did this with are from Montana near a Reservation. Now, their the kind of "outsiders" mountain people like. They don't bad mouth people, put them down, make up a bunch of rules to place on everyone or carry on about how great it was where their from while for some reason living here in these mountains. Their different, but, not bad.
One of them has a brother who went back out to Montana for a visit. He brought back some rocks from a Tee Pee Circle. Once he got back he had bad luck he said. "Did you bring the whole circle?", one asked.
"No"
"You've gotta bring the whole circle...you can't break the circle!"
So, the boy takes them back
"Did you put them back in the circle?"
"Well kinda...their out there on the prarie"
"Well, did your luck change?"
"Kinda"
The Moral? Kinda setting things right only kinda gets results.

I went in the lodge four times for any where from 15 minutes to 40 minutes a peice. I build up to it slow...that first wave of steam knocks me hard. Sweating in such a way takes impurities out of your body. A bitter wind blew some cold air, but, with your tempature up it feels comfortable in the air. When you lay down to sleep you sleep soundly. Sometimes it's fun being eccentric.

Appalachian Intellectual