What Do You Do To Find Some Peace?

[Diva]

When everything's going wrong, everyone seems to be pissing you off, and the last straw is drifting towards the camel's back... What do you do to get away from it all and find your inner peace? Travel? Music? Whatever it takes.

[Jennafer]

Okay, you know I'm blunt....I put on some porn, relax myself, and treat myself real well...(hint,hint) I even treat myself to a nice candle light dinner if I'm deserving....By the way I'm due for one...

[Jake]

I drive my truck out to the river, pop some beer in the water to keep it cold, and fish for nothing. Occasionally shoot some wildlife {With a camera, Diva. Retract them claws :cheesy: } Heh heh.

[Zaphros]

I like to drive into the countryside with some top tunes playing. If i'm at home though i'll pop on a favourite and just chill out to the music.

best if all I find peace and solice in the arms of my girlfriend, just a word or a smile from her makes my day :). (You can all stop being sick now lol)

Zaphros.

[Redallnite]

I can't hear the waves anymore, so I like to look at the sky in the night. The moon is so tantalizing that I could stare for hours and only thought I just glanced at it. I need to not think for a while just breathe, that for me is the best way to wash away any doubts or stress. I enjoy life, it is so short. The day to day bullshit we endure means nothing more than being alive. That to me is wonderful because in a hundred years from now, who is gonna care?

[Jennafer]

Wow, Red. I totally agree...I say that all the time in my head. In a hundred years, what's it all going to matter anyway....Time goes on and on. I guess it's what you do now, and enjoy every second while you have it. I love the night stars, too. I love to go out on a summer night and just lay down and look up and wonder and enjoy. I miss it. We're in an apt. right now and don't have the place to do that, but we're looking for a house with a yard so I can go out back and enjoy the night. It's awesome.;)

[LucifersChild]

great thread i love this one. to relax, i usually do a few things. i either put on some music, pantera mostly, cemetary gates. and just close my eyes and think. or sometimes a good drive does wonders. just pop some music in the deck, and drive to nowhere. ;)

[Jennafer]

Graveyards are the shit. I love to go to an old graveyard where the tombstones are barley haning on and just lay there....I know one close to here that is small and has shit from 1700's, and it's surrounded by trees. It is beautiful. I like to lay down on the graves and think about how peaceful it would be. It's like they did their time and got off on parole. Absolute Freedom...

[LucifersChild]

ever done any rubbings jenn? ive been to a few cemetaries around here, and got some really cool rubbings from some old gravestones. also my band just did a photo shoot at this really old, creepy cemetary, full on with statues and everything.. very cool

[Diva]

I love to just get in my car and drive. Or hike where no one is around. A also like to just relax and watch my fish, while listening to water flow.

[Jennafer]

I never thought about Rubbings. That sounds cool. These tombstones are so old, it would be really neat. good idea. I don't know how to do it though. I'll look it up.

[LucifersChild]

you should definately. i have some from the 1700's. ill take some pics of em and show em around

i disappear from everything and everyone. i don't leave, i am just not present.

[Amaurote]

Originally posted by Jennafer
Graveyards are the shit. I love to go to an old graveyard where the tombstones are barley haning on and just lay there....I know one close to here that is small and has shit from 1700's, and it's surrounded by trees. It is beautiful. I like to lay down on the graves and think about how peaceful it would be. It's like they did their time and got off on parole. Absolute Freedom...

I'm with you all the way, Jennafer: I live in a village dominated by a 16th century church and graveyard, and it's only minutes away whenever I grow frustrated, day or night. There's nothing like the sight of malevolent gargoyles and angled sepulchres to lend a little perspective to one's life. Having said that, I was particularly desolate last week, and I climbed all the way to the top of Durham Cathedral: less morbid, more spiritual, and all the better for it, I felt.

http://www.malburns.clara.net/Images/Durham/cathedral.jpg

[hollowearth]

The church near where Amaurote lives...
http://www.watercolours.uklinux.net/images/paintings/980371833.jpg
:)

[Diva]

Alright you two! Those pictures are breathtaking! Do you really live newar that church in the picture, Ami? It's beautiful.

Hollow, is that a real picture of his church... or are you being you again!

Do the you of you live in the same town? *shudders*

[hollowearth]

The one Amaurote posted is Durham Cathedral, about five miles up the road from him, and twenty from me.

The one I posted is of the church that Amaurote lives practically next to, though its surroundings and graveyard are more sinister than in the picture.

[Diva]

The one I posted is of the church that Amaurote lives practically next to, though it's surroundings and graveyard are more sinister than in the picture
Hahahaha...

It must be beautiful where you two live. I love old buildings. In California that means 15 years. When I've gone to Europe, my favorite part was just walking the the different countries, looking at the different types of designs throughout the ages. So beautiful. Just to touch the solid rock and know what times it has been through. The oldest building I was in was in Gotland, Sweden. It was 916 years old. The were tombs from the crusades there. It amazes me even now.

[usantic]

I free my mind by finding a nice mountain stream about an hour from here and walk its banks and rocks. I'll toss out a line with a nice fly tied to the end and watch its progression downstream.
If, by chance, a trout rises to take the bait, he and I will have a short battle. If I win, he has given me a few moments with nothing else on my mind. If he wins, it means I've slipped and fallen into a frigid mountain brook.

Speaking of freaky cemeteries and churches, any one been to eastern europe and seen the way the tombstones are jammed into the ground there? They must bury themselves standing or on top of one another!

[Amaurote]

Originally posted by hollowearth


The one I posted is of the church that Amaurote lives practically next to, though its surroundings and graveyard are more sinister than in the picture.

Especially when I'm in there: I've lost count of the number of old ladies I've scared simply by mooching innocuously through the decaying shrubbery, minding my own business...

Diva - Sweden sounds interesting, particularly since the church you mention probably dates from around the time of Harold Hardrada, when the Scandinavians had only just ceased worshipping Thor and Odin; I'm very curious about Iceland, but vacations are prohibitive, due to the high inflation that obtains over there. Shame.

Usantic - you raise a very interesting point once more: I'm not sure about Eastern Europe, but the USA, Canada and Australia (even New Zealand) clearly possess almost limitless space for burial. That doesn't apply in Europe: hence the prospect of rental space for graves in London and the use of ossiaries on the Continent. Most of the sites in London are piled ridiculously high from the accumulated earth of the centuries; and, of course, the body interred today will inevitably shift through incremental earth movement over the decades ahead.

[Diva]

Am, Sweden was beautiful. I've been there twice. Gotland was fantastic. I walked for hours and didn's see anyone. I'll have to scan some pictures. I love to walk in nature, nothing around me. Gotland was like that. Sweden was beautiful, also. So clean. Even by the courts. You didn't see any litter on the ground. It was so different from here. The buses were like sitting in someone's car. I'm not even going to get into our buses. Let's just say, "Bleck!"

[Amaurote]

Originally posted by Diva
Am, Sweden was beautiful. I've been there twice. Gotland was fantastic. I walked for hours and didn's see anyone. I'll have to scan some pictures. I love to walk in nature, nothing around me. Gotland was like that. Sweden was beautiful, also. So clean. Even by the courts. You didn't see any litter on the ground. It was so different from here. The buses were like sitting in someone's car. I'm not even going to get into our buses. Let's just say, "Bleck!"

Sounds great, Di: it's been a long time since I've read it, but I'm almost sure that Gotland figures in Beowulf. Either way, if the church you mention dates back 916 years, it was presumably founded in 1085-6 - which is actually ten years before Pope Urban declared the First Crusade, and all the chaos and dogmatic, hysterical butchery that the Holy Wars entailed....terrifying. The country I'd most like to visit would be Syria, on the basis that it contains some of the most awesome holy sites in the world, dating back aeons - but, for obvious reasons, I'll be postponing that particular plan for a few decades, I suspect.

Actually, on the subject of the USA, I think you'll find that the sepulchres go back a lot further than you think. I've never really subscribed to the Old World/New World dichotomy, for obvious reasons: every country is as old as the next. Moreover, Indian burial grounds and Poltergeist aside, Maine, New England and the majority of the former Spanish colonies in the USA have cemeteries/semataries (I read Stephen King, see - so I know all the Americanisms...!) dating back at least 500 years, even older than the plots Lucy and Jenn refer to.

I'm quite looking forward to seeing the results of that photo-shoot/album cover, incidentally, Lucy: in fact, I'm willing to pay in blood. It won't be my blood, of course; I like to keep it near me as a sort of sentimental keepsake.

[Diva]

You got it, hon. You are correct... The United States does have some beautiful buildings... Unfortunately in California, the Earthquakes have made Anything outside of Historical landmarks impossible to live in.

[Diva]

I love these pictures... Can't you just see Ami climbing up top and drinking some ale? Well? Cant you? :cheesy:

http://www.nochicktrix.com/fun/oth/vb/am/amichurch.gif

[Anton]

I tend to turn to the old favourites: Beer and drugs.

I don't get so drunk I can no longer move and kill myself just enough to take the edge off of whatever's on my mind. I have a tendency to think about things to much and usually work myself into a worse state than I started in but when i'm pissed thinking doesn't come into it and I'm peaceful for a while.

Other than that I just turn of all the lights in my room, lie on my bed and listen to music that I would consider beautiful ('Shades Of Despair - Angels of Distress' being an example). I'll stay there until I either get too bored and the withdrawla symptoms from my cathode ray addiction kick in or I fall asleep

[Amaurote]

Many thanks, Di: My political vainglory now holds full sway over my limited talent. It's like a vision, or a phantasy of some 16th century prose romance. I can see it all now:

When I am voted Grand Mufti of my village by virtue of shameless malpractice/venality on the part of the parish council electoral commission, my very first act will be to promulgate an edict forcing everyone in the vicinity to idolatrously pray to that picture, whether they are in school, hospital, or the workplace, and that all Moslems in the area alter their Qibbah from the Ka-baah at Mecca to that church in Spennymoor. There are no Moslems in the area of course, but I believe in foresight. Never underestimate the leadership potential of a rural Parish Council, especially one elected by electoral fraud.

I will be a vain, conceited, unscrupulous and yet avuncular God, with very little in the way of divinity, but a great deal in the way of fancy-dan cigarillos and cheaply imported Taiwanese replica football kits.

Parish Councils: Power to the People, and also retired elderly bureaucrats generally associated with an odour vaguely redolent of decaying mothballs.

[Diva]

Shit. *Spreads out the 16 books: Dictionaries, History, older history, history passed down over camp fires so that hardly anyone knew them, Ye Ole Book Of Words That Havent Been Used In Over 100 Years Until The Birth Of Amaurote, and Amaurotisms:How To Win At Scrabble*

*Flip, flip flip, flip... Throw book.*

Ummm. So, do you like it?

[Amaurote]

I like it immensely, and plan on standing for Parliament with it. I wouldn't repeat that in the presence of Hollowearth's dad, of course, because he painted the original picture. I think the presence of a hovering gigantoid hairy-handed chalk-eating vicarious drunkard on the tower is an improvement on the original, quite frankly.

Art is art. Someone famous once said that. And then I read about it in a book.