-HELLO EVERYONE! Just feeling lucky and excited! Been looking for a site like this, then here and now, IT'S HERE! FOR FREE! AND FOR & ALL THROUGHOUT MY LIFETIME SITE! oH MY! I like first to thank God for this event, if you will. Lord thank you so much! If this is the fulfillment of my prayerful request to you, with your infinite guidance and regulations, I will make this blogsite, with all my effort and talent, informative, beneficial, entertaining, educational, and whatever for anyone who logs on here, FOR FREE!
I am Ed E. Goodwater, of legal age, married, resident of the Philippines, of course, a Filipino. But why the GOODWATER thing! Like some of the good writers, which I'm just trying to emulate, though I do not categorically belong to their group because I am not really a writer, I, too, would like to use a pen name, an alias, an A.K.A., sort of thing to hide and protect my identity in cases where it will become the object of humiliation or other detrimental situation in ones own name when an inadvertent error of omission or commission had been done without any direct and outright intention to do so. This is the simple reason for that GOODWATER thing.
Meantime, that's all I have to say. When I come back, rest assured you will be reading some litlle, initially, materials of general interest to everyone. Thank you so much. Ed e. goodwater
As usual I’m still having a hard time thinking what to write! I don’t know, sometimes I’m thinking of giving up this blogging thing anymore and just blog over about anything else in my sleeps! But when I look up the number of my blogs I’ve done so far I sort of feeling pity for myself because I barely made a total of measly 80 blogs which way very far from my targeted total of 100 blogs! Anyway I guess I just have to take it easy and maybe play and go along with it as lazily or at whatever mode that I could go over.
If you’re not born a writer, which surely like me things like these always happen. You have to squeeze your mind into thinking all sort of things just to have something to say or blog! Now when I say I’m facing a blank wall, literally I’m faced to a blank wall with nothing more to give except blankness and nothingness, I guess! Even my dream catchers are not working well anymore! OMG! What would I do?
But you must have noticed something! Haven’t you? Yes, you’re right! Dream catcher! What is it? My grandpa from my maternal side, my favorite, because honestly I’ve never seen my other grandparents from my paternal side till the day they’ve gone to paradise with Jesus, was a mystical man, a very silent type and not proned to talk even no matter how insistent you are urging him. But when he started talking you ought to listen attentively because if you guised or just pretending you are when you’re actually not, he had ways of knowing it and he will leave you alone and never speak to you again. Especially when you’re inquiring about mystical or magical things he had experienced in the olden days of his lifetime. He’s some sort of a storyteller and perhaps if only he had known how to write, he could have written all those narratives and epic saga of his life almost probably as closed to J. K. Rowling. (LOL)
I was on my 3rd grade in elementary school when he died. He’s exactly 100yo. But a week before his death, I noticed him tinkering on what seemed to me a wind vane. I had not any special interest about it. I had long seen it fixed there near the east side window of his room and just gave it a passive look whenever it is swirling with the wind in summer or at any given time where there is wind whirling or gushing around.
But this time some odd balls of curiosity for no reason at all crept into mind. That was a Saturday nothing much to do I so remembered school was off. Deliberately I approached him and just eyeing him intently on things he’s doing. Now I got a good closed look at the thing. It’s a wind vane indeed. But aside from the arrow, the body or shaft made of bamboo stalk complete with pointed metal head and hen’s wing feathers trimmed beautifully for a tail, another stalk of bamboo was attached, nailed firmly midway on the arrow’s body making a literal cross if you seen it on top view. There I got curious and asked him, “Grandpa, what’s that for?” I’m now referring to the stalk of bamboo nailed firmly in the middle of the arrow containing on both ends some kind of conglomeration of grass stalks, dried leaves of different kinds but smaller in size, and strands of hair, some grey some black but all arranged and glued to a piece of flat stick (popsicle stick, I think) so neatly it looked like a propellers! Two small looking like propellers! And this is what makes that wind vane special. It points the direction the wind is blowing at the same time have two colorful propellers on two sides whirling so beautifully when hit by the wind.
He must be done with what he was doing after gluing some additional hair strands and dried grass stalks on the propellers, when he asked me back, “What do you think this is?” Immediately I replied, “A wind vane.” Agreeably he said, “Yes, but it’s more than that. It’s a dream catcher.” Surprised, as it’s the very first time I’ve ever heard of such a term, I asked again, “What’s dream catcher grandpa?” We’re at the sala that time so he asked me to sit down and listen.
He said, “The universe is filled with equal number of good as well as bad spirits roaming around infinitely trying to find earthly bodies they could dwell and linger for some time in trying to evade or escape their heavenly spiritual but vague existence. Once they’ve found someone, (as dull as you) they cling to this body gradually transforming, influencing the owner to some awesome or magnificent changes and favorable conditions in life. And sometimes, if this adherence suits the spirit it’s long lasting till the body owner grows old and dies. But this is true only if the spirit that clung to any body is good. When it’s a bad spirit, it’s the other way around and definitely not favorable. So this is where this dream catcher applies. It’s actually a detector or radar to catch or classify a spirit if it’s good or bad. Once a roaming heavenly spirit decided to cling to you, this dream catcher will give you dream or dreams giving sometimes vague and tell-tale signs of its nature. But they don’t cling to you right out. Some dreams would appear to you thrice or more, if still you cannot deduce if it’s good or bad, the dream catcher could help you out. Pull some three strands of your hair preferably at the back of your head then stick it well in the propellers, if it’s a bad spirit you won’t be dreaming of it again. And the dried leaves or stalks of grasses glued so well in the propellers will fall carried away gone with the wind of that bad spirit. And the propellers won’t whirl no matter how strong the wind that blows it. And the arrow will point to the direction that bad spirit had flown away.”
Would you believe that! If only I could draw some picture to show how that dream catcher really look you’ll be amazed it’s weird! It’s very far from that wind vane now sold commercially in the market. But why the dried leaves, stalks of grasses and strands of hair fixed to its propellers, sad to say I failed to ask my grandpa about it and right up to this time I’m trying to find out why and what is it for! If you know something about it, I would be glad if you could tell me.
Goodwater724
02-07-11
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But surely I would do some research work for this purpose to know why and what are those things there for. I mean the dried leaves, stalks of grasses, and the strands of hair. Thanks a lot!
Posted by goodwater724 at July 2, 2011, 9:36 pm