KGT1200
10-16-2009, 07:44 AM
No, not that kind of fetish, unless you consider an unusual attraction to anything on two wheels a fetish...
I admit it to all; I have a fetish! A riding fetish that my wife picked up for me in a little store on the Boulder pearl street mall in some little transcendental enlightenment shop. It's a little stone carved rattlesnake made out of pipestone from Pipestone MN. I keep it in my man cave on a shelf with honors.
And as much as I tend to not believe in much today other than my self and my family each and every morning, as with this morning, before I open the garage door to head down the road on my motorcycle, I touch my finger to my lips, then down on the head of my little fetish for luck.
The symbolism of the snake, for those who have not had to live in areas where you come into surprise contact with the Crotalus horridus, you have to understand this point; each time you step out of your door, you risk the bite of the rattler.
So the symbol of giving a "kiss” to the snake is this: Each morning before I ride, or before I go on any two wheeled trip, I make peace with the rattler i.e. death. I recognize acknowledge that death could be waiting for me right outside that door. By doing so, a part of my brain is put on stand by; part of my brain is nudged by that kiss, to take care., take caution for death waits for those who heed not caution.
I know, it all sound a little nuts, but for this morning anyway, riding off into as solid bank of fog with about 30 ft max visibility, I knew exactly why I touched the fetish!
Is anybody out there has some other good luck thing going down there before each ride, or am I the only one?
I admit it to all; I have a fetish! A riding fetish that my wife picked up for me in a little store on the Boulder pearl street mall in some little transcendental enlightenment shop. It's a little stone carved rattlesnake made out of pipestone from Pipestone MN. I keep it in my man cave on a shelf with honors.
And as much as I tend to not believe in much today other than my self and my family each and every morning, as with this morning, before I open the garage door to head down the road on my motorcycle, I touch my finger to my lips, then down on the head of my little fetish for luck.
The symbolism of the snake, for those who have not had to live in areas where you come into surprise contact with the Crotalus horridus, you have to understand this point; each time you step out of your door, you risk the bite of the rattler.
So the symbol of giving a "kiss” to the snake is this: Each morning before I ride, or before I go on any two wheeled trip, I make peace with the rattler i.e. death. I recognize acknowledge that death could be waiting for me right outside that door. By doing so, a part of my brain is put on stand by; part of my brain is nudged by that kiss, to take care., take caution for death waits for those who heed not caution.
I know, it all sound a little nuts, but for this morning anyway, riding off into as solid bank of fog with about 30 ft max visibility, I knew exactly why I touched the fetish!
Is anybody out there has some other good luck thing going down there before each ride, or am I the only one?