Another Quick Update

I'm still moving in and unpacking the Fortress of Solitude, and enjoying not having to be so quiet and so constrained about my living situation. Phaedrus continues to improve. I've gotten almost everything I own in one place, and I'm still sorting. This weekend there was ritual with a sword, and another ritual with my fists, and yet another severing ritual with a black tanto I bought just for the occasion.

However, I'll be leaving the mess behind for a week as I go to Colorado, to go hiking and camping and white water rafting down the Royal Gorge/Arkansas river. I'll be training with the Uchideshi in her dojo, and elsewhere.

Worthy of remembering: The litany against fear is an incantation spoken by fictional characters in Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune, and its sequels, in order to focus their minds in times of peril. The litany is as follows:

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

Domo Arigato Gozaimashita.