today is july 21st and in my experience, it is a special day of summer magic.

the solar eclipse is today, yes? and we know about eclipses..

yesterday i bought clay, out of which i will be fashioning a statue of ganesha, as it is my intention to celebrate ganesh chaturthi properly, at least more so than i have in the past.

i sat on the floor of the living room, with the statue i have now on the coffee table in front of me. it's been a long time since i've actively... i gazed at him, the smell o f sandalwood still present in the air from the incense i burned earlier in the day. i gave him grape leaves and ice cream. he opened his mouth and it's been a long time.

i carried the clay in my purse during my nighttime adventures and passed it around to the friends i've made. "i got this clay, see?" i said. "it's squishy."

i laid my hands on it for some time and powered it up! we bonded. somewhere between the smoke and the kombucha i was on some other level, as i like to be.

i was thinking and thinking and i realized how important it is this year, how vitally important it right. now. to be invoking his energy, with the new adventures and paths we find ourselves on. i though, "how important it is to pay tribute to ganesha," and in the next moment, the one that would have been appropriate for a conversational response, the tv said "with the flow of cash in las vegas."