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boccaderlupoI dreamed I found my wife and son out in a store in the desert. An older, New Age-type lady was selling crystals, some of them prominently pink. I perambulated the store a few times then left.
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I dreamed I was in a vacant storefront, jogando capoeira with a tall woman I used to know from that scene. She had cut her hair, and tumbled out of the roda. She told me about her children, now all grown and moved out. As we spoke, a series of malandro-types came into the store, dapper and dressed to the nines. I was in the middle of telling the woman how capoeira was not entirely a martial art, but rather an elaborate ritual for channeling orixas. One of the gentlemen who came in, clad in a classy brown suit, loudly scoffed at my assertions. He pointed to a wall of the studio, which in addition to the many Afro-Brazilian symbols adorning it had, way at the top, a number of crucifixes. I explained to him that this was just window-dressing, and in effect one could not split allegiance between the orixas and Christ, that the inhabitants of the spirit world recognized what rituals pertained to whom, even if the participants disavowed this. "One cannot serve two masters," I said, but he continued to laugh at me.
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I dreamed I was in a vacant storefront, jogando capoeira with a tall woman I used to know from that scene. She had cut her hair, and tumbled out of the roda. She told me about her children, now all grown and moved out. As we spoke, a series of malandro-types came into the store, dapper and dressed to the nines. I was in the middle of telling the woman how capoeira was not entirely a martial art, but rather an elaborate ritual for channeling orixas. One of the gentlemen who came in, clad in a classy brown suit, loudly scoffed at my assertions. He pointed to a wall of the studio, which in addition to the many Afro-Brazilian symbols adorning it had, way at the top, a number of crucifixes. I explained to him that this was just window-dressing, and in effect one could not split allegiance between the orixas and Christ, that the inhabitants of the spirit world recognized what rituals pertained to whom, even if the participants disavowed this. "One cannot serve two masters," I said, but he continued to laugh at me.
