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Rock On Mew!

Sonic is on the road! On the way to visit Mew + other adventures. He created a special travel blog here ... looks like he's off to a good start!

Mew at Katsurahama beach, Japan. Wonder where his travels will take him? With Love, K, BrightEyes and Sonic.

Well, I meant to post this earlier for those of you curious about Mew's journey. He arrived at his destination around 3am after a 6 hour delay in Easton waiting for crews to clear a 50 car pile-up on Snoqaulmie pass. I kept watch on the site with webcams and status updates until after midnight and Mew cleared the "mountain" (tho I still can't believe they call a 3,000ft bump a "mountain pass.") They had chain/snow tire requirements in effect after they cleared the way, and Mew had neither, but he does have experience driving on snow and ice.

Mew left today. Headed to Washington for new adventures. We hugged the dickens out of him and watched with teary eyes as the brown caddie made the same left turn it had made for a couple of years now going back to Fort Collins; this time the turn would take Mew far away from us. Away from the lazy weekends we'd spend talking, laughing, or just reading together on the couch; the simple enjoyment of his thoughtful company. The day before, Sonic came down for dinner and slipped Mew an envelope, in secret, to open on the road. It had a note and money for his brother; money that was probably Sonic's groceries for a week. Bright-eyes and I barely made it back into the house before we were in each other's arms with tears of sadness, joy and confusion; unexpected, welling up from someplace deep. A place I feel blessed to have touched in this lifetime. So proud of these charges, so inadequate to my task. How simple and superficial the ways of the mind and how fathomless and complex ...

Mew shared some of his writing with me today, which I always enjoy, and has allowed me to post it here on anamnesis. So, without further adieu, this post is from Mew ;-) --- I was recently thinking about the nature of totems and guides, and it raised some questions I was hoping to muddle through. As a disclaimer, realize that I haven't been keeping up with my guides as well as I should be, so some of my ideas may be a bit off. What exactly are guides, are they a sort of part of our soul in this life, or are they an external presence come to help? If they're external, what exactly do they originate from? It seems as though many of the books written about Totems speak of them as archetypes. Are the books written to just be a general description of what the Totems entail, or are we truly guided by manifestations of archetypes? I've spoken to Coyote once or twice so far (definitely), and he had the general Coyote traits (even if I can hear him now saying, "hey!...