A day to remember a great man, a revolutionary man, a man with great ideas of justice, truth and pride, a day to remember Martin Luther King. MLK is a holiday but of course I have work today. My work day went well. The day was pretty mellow and I guess that's because of the holiday. While at work I kept thinking about going to the gym and lifting. By the time it was time to leave work I was psyched to get to the gym. As good luck would have it I had a great chest and ab workout. After the gym I bounced home ( slave barb got out early today) and was greeted by the dogs and slave barb. Slave barb's birthday was January 6^th but we have not had a chance to get together with my Aunt so she could take slave barb out to dinner for her Birthday. Slave barb choose the restaurant and she choose a good one. We went to a place called Bensi's. It was real good! We had a good time and my Aunt was on good behavior. So I must say we all had a good time and lots of good food. I'll say it again, HAPPY BIRTHDAY slave barb. Now I would like to talk about something that seems to have happened to me. After my incredible experience at SWLC which includes the Dance of Souls I seem to have a strong desire to explore (even) more of my spiritual side. Yes, Leather and M/s have helped me discover that I have a spiritual side and yes I have been acknowledging it and slowly learning about it. But after the Dance I had the feeling that the time is now to learn more and advance my spiritual self. So during yesterday's Sunday discussion ( which covered a lot of ground and was rather long) I spoke to my slave, wife, best friend and spiritual advisor, that of course is slave barb. We had a great conversation about what I can do to try to take the next step in further finding my spirit or spiritual self. I told slave barb that one of the things that I was interested in doing is setting up an altar. I also explained that I really was unsure what to do. With slave barb's help I got great clarity. I feel like I have an idea of where I want or need to go. This is going to be an interesting adventure. For the first time in my life I'm not equating prayer or spirit to being dragged off to Catholic church. Those childhood memories were based on lies perpetrated by my parents. Now don't get me wrong, for those who are drawn to the Catholic religion, that's great, find your path and I hope it works for you. It just didn't work for me. Since my Catholic upbringing didn't work for me I pretty much turned off that spiritual switch. Leather and M/s seem to have brought me to the point where I stood in front of the switch and put the dimmer pack on low. I don't know why, but the Dance of Souls has driven me to turn the dimmer pack up a few solid notches.

This should be an interesting ride, wish me luck. So tonight after dinner I stopped off at A& P to get a specific candle. As luck would have it, they had exactly what I was looking for. I also took some time to set up my Altar. On a not to spiritual side I set up the phones for tomorrows Podcast interview with SELF. I'll cap off the evening by watching RAW. I also did some MAsT work too.

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