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Not a wink of sleep until well after 5 am.  Overslept & woken @ 8 am by Judi, thank goodness! The church service was all in Spanish so a bit losst on me there, but nothing was lost on anyone when the incense were lit,  a single Priest swung it while 4-5 Priests masterfully managed its rise and swing side to side/back & forth over the people and high into the ceiling.   I'll never forget it.  It was a spectacle yet holy at the same time.  The smoke wafting upwards with the prayers of the people.  The power of the magnificient massive silver ___________  swinging wasl also joyful, freeing, playful - what child of any age doesn't want to swing?  What an intersting ritual for the otherwise serious, deathly, church tradition filled with bribed loyalty, purchased forgiveness & fearful "unconditional love". After a brunch Judi & Jesse, Meg and I headed out - at VERY different paces...the former taking a firm lead!   MY CAMI...

  Yarak - From the book, The Hawk's Way , by Sy Montgomery In falconry, "Yarak is something central to the psyche of a bird of prey", specifically the urge to hunt...  It is a drive, a desire that must be met.  "It is the bird of prey's greatest earthly pleasure and its deepest frustration, twined tight.  Frightening and beautiful, yarak is rapture and longing, love and death married in one timeless moment.  If the eye is the mind of the raptor, then yarak is its wild soul.  Yarak is wildness incarnate - dangerous and delicious and pure.   Another word in falconry is venery, it is defined as "The art, act or practice of hunting." "A second meaning, however, is listed in the American Heritage  Dictionary .  as the indulgence in or pursuit of sexual pleasure.  The word is rooted  in the Roman goddess Venus, whose name meant desire or love." In each case, in falconry, when the bird is denied a hunt, it becomes enormously frustrate...