My Sweet Lord

EXPLORING SECOND LIFE

And there I was, a woman without religion but with faith to praise one hundred Gods.

- lori Novo

My Sweet Lord

- George Harrison -

"I really want to see you

Really want to be with you

Really want to see you, Lord

But it takes so long, my Lord

My sweet Lord

Mm, my Lord

Mm, my Lord..."

-lyrics

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I grew up in the catholic faith, with a great-grandmother who guided us under very strict

religious guidance that cast fear, more than love to God. She truly believed that the only way to

make it to Haven was to follow the Catholic faith. So punishment, hell, and purgatory were some

of the words she would use on us to keep us in line and obey the Lord. More than a loving and forgiven

father, God was painted to us as this unmerciful being who could see everything we did, even our

thoughts. In a way, she was right on that one, but to her, we could be struck by lightning if

we ever did something wrong. Something as small as liking a dress from a magazine. That is what

she would call a vanity sin and so we should feel ashamed and pay penance for our sin with

Twenty Hail Marys and twenty Our Fathers and don't forget our pet, Billy the goat for a blood

sacrificial! Okay, I am exaggerating a bit there with the goat. :P

Anyway, growing up under my great-grandmother's faith was utterly torture.

Going to church with her for mass meant that for the whole duration of mass, our eyes had to

be locked on the priest and we were not allowed to make any sounds, not even a cough or a sneeze.

Don't get me wrong, my great-grandmother was a very loving woman just too intense when it

came to her religion.

I, however, began to unfollow her faith and demands at a very early age. I am surprised she didn't

disown me. However, the way she treated me after my rebellious uproar changed drastically.

She no longer showed physical affection to me as she did with her other great-grandkids that

continued to obey her more out of fear than out of love and respect.

I became the black sheep and with the years, almost all of the other joined me as well.

It was hard to follow her faith that more than love and peace was all about pain, sadness, and

punishment. Standing with her meant walking on eggshells at every second with God. A small,

unintentional wrong step could mean damnation in hell for an eternity.

I did continue practicing the Catholic faith but on my own for a few more years.

However, for some reason, my spirit felt empty and so I searched in other religions for what my spirit

was lacking. As I continued to soul struggle one day I felt it in my heart, what I had been looking for

was already inside me. It had been there since the moment I was born and that was to be good, to

care for the world and every single living thing. To live by love because once we live by love,

everything good falls into place like peace, joy, acceptance, forgiveness, encouragement, etc.

But here's the catch, the beauty of living this way is not with the purpose of earning a spot in Heaven

or to avoid hell, those two things are already on earth. The beauty should be in doing it because it is the

right thing to do, for ourselves and others, with no rewards expected, other than knowing that a life

lived with love for the world can only bring light and light is good, very good!

So that is how I came to be a woman with no religion but with a very strong faith in a

merciful and loving God.

♥

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Telenovela 💋 The Prohibited Kiss

As I promised ! Here it goes...

I Kissed A Girl

- Katy Perry -

I had just turned thirteen when I got my first kiss, yes, with a girl. Her name was Isabel and she was

one of my two best friends at the time. Before the kiss, or better said, the kisses happened, we had been

at her house folding clothes that her mother had dropped on us to fold while she watched a Mexican

soap opera. There was a lot of heavy kissing going on almost in every scene, and yes, also

a lot of drama just as is expected in telenovelas...

Telenovela - SNL

Yeah, I know, I know. Funny! :P

Anyway, every time a kissing scene would come up my friend Isabel and I would giggle

and ewww'ed. After a while, her mother began to feel irritated by our constant giggles that would

erupt into laughter distracting her from her soap opera. She finally screamed at us to leave the room

so we left to my grandmother's house which was just across the street and set in the backyard under

a tree. We continued to laugh thinking about how funny and gross the kissing scenes were and

suddenly we realized something, neither one of us knew how to kiss. We knew boys would be

coming into the picture sometime so we thought it would be good to learn how to kiss them. :P

Isabel suddenly came up with the brilliant idea of practicing a kiss with each other. So the practicing

began not knowing really what we were doing. Since it didn't feel right we continued to practice

different ways but instead of feeling like something nice, it felt more gross than anything else. As we

continued trying to figure out which was the right way to do it, I suddenly was pulled away from Isabel

from one of my braids, it was my grandmother who had caught us in action, LOL.

Isabel ran away while my grandmother, with a good grip on my braid, kept slapping the top of

my head as she pulled me into the house. She was so angry and kept screaming at me in 

what sounded like tongues since I really couldn't understand a single word she was saying. I was crying,

just like in the telenovela scenes I had just watched minutes before, and trying to explain that Isabel and

I were not really kissing. Finally, once in the house my grandmother let go of my braid (OUCH) and

said she would be telling my mother about it when she came back home, then she walked across the

street to Isabel's house.

I climbed into bed and got under the blanket not wanting to come out for the rest of the day and cried

and cried. Finally, I fell asleep. Later in the evening, I woke up when I heard my mother's voice

calling out my name as she opened the door when she got back from work. I pretended to be asleep

still completely under the blanket. I then heard my grandmother talking to her and I began to cry,

silently, I was so scared. But my mother didn't say anything to me, on that night or ever about what

I had done.

Isabel however wasn't that lucky, she did get spanked, first by her mother, then later by her father,

and wasn't allowed to be my friend anymore. But we had been friends for many years so we continued

our friendship secretly until her parents gave up and removed the punishment. Needless to say, my

friendship with Isabel continued into adulthood, beautiful as always but without any brilliant ideas

like the one we had on that kissing day. We actually never spoke a word about that subject again.

Like it never happened.

So for me, we weren't really kissing, so it doesn't count.

Right?

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Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?

Hello Beautiful World!

Today I come to you as a chicken, more like a hen really. If I was a chicken boy

that would make me a pussy, get it? LOL, just kidding my beautifuls, I would be a rooster.

cluck-CLUCK-cluck

Do you hear me clucking? :P

Clucking is the sound mother hens make to talk to their baby chicks. These beautiful birds are very

loving and can make great pets. Hens are very motherly and even before their babies hatch, the mother

hen will softly purr, coo, or cluck to comfort her babies while sitting on the eggs. This helps the baby

chicks feel safe while hatching. Soon after they hatch, the baby chicks recognize their mother's sound.

The sounds a mother hen makes to communicate with her babies differ from situation to situation.

For example, "tuk-tuk-tuk" is the sound she makes to encourage her babies to eat,

and keeps her babies close by clucking a low-pitched sound.

But what is all this chicken talk about anyways?

Well, a few days ago, in an event that I went to I spotted a chicken wandering around.

What was my surprise when I realized that the chicken wasn't just an animated prop, but a real person!

Of course, I ran to it like a crazy goat and caught up to it and suddenly the magic occurred,

you know the magic of when two people stand still in front of each other and just gaze into each other's

eyes without saying a word... just making sounds to each other...

Bailizhi (momoyuyu) the chicken

Chicken: cluck

ME: aww

Chicken: cluck cluck

ME: aww aww

Chicken: cluck-CLUCK-cluck

Me: aww aww aww

and so these "clucks" and "awws" went on for a few minutes until we both realized we had attracted

a crowd wondering what we were doing. So without a cluck or an aww again, we both walked away 

in different directions. :P

Chicken Convinced He's A Dog

Now I do have two real-life stories about chickens to share with you, unfortunately, both are

very sad and end tragically but these two stories come to show how chickens can become

very special pets to us.

The first one is about my childhood.

As a kid, my mother once gifted me a small chick. I saw my little chick grow up to

be a beautiful chicken. My chicken would always follow me around and would get very excited every

time he/she would see me. One time I couldn't find my chicken pet anywhere

so I was crying looking for it. Suddenly when I looked into our neighbor's backyard, I saw the lady

neighbor, twisting my chicken's neck and killing it!!! :(

I began to scream and ran to my grandmother to tell her, I was inconsolable.

Later that night when my mother came back home from work, she told me that she had sold my chicken

 to the neighbor because it had gotten too big and she would be getting me a new baby chick 

to which I said NO! I cried and cried for days, missing my chicken and feeling my mother didn't

understand that it wasn't my chicken she had sold to the neighbor and had gotten killed,

but my best friend.

The second story is from Melanie King, one of my favorite Second Life photographers 

and it comes as a description of the last picture she took for her Flickr. A beautiful tribute to her four

precious chickens, READ IT HERE. Hugs her tight. ♥

But happy thoughts now my beautiful people. ;)

So the question of the day is why did the chicken cross the road?

A) Was it to get to the other side?

B) To go to heaven?

C) Because the grass was greener on the other side?

Ahhh, all good answers but before I give you the correct answer let me tell you where you too

can get your own chicken avatar for only 99L.

-CYRC- Chicken Avatar in MarketPlace

A fully rigged chicken avatar, for all your chicken being needs.

Includes a chicken noise thing that when worn you can click the avi for random chicken sounds.

::{u.f.o}:: Helen Raffia Hat not included. :P

By the way,

did you know that chickens can dream when they sleep and even worry?

They also have great memories and can recognize over 100 faces of their own species?

Eithaan & Elizabeth Dovgal (Her Flickr)

But back to our question, why did the chicken cross the road?

Well, I don't know about other chickens but the reason for mine was to be social since all the people

seemed to be on the other side of the street. Actually, more than social I was a nuisance to every single

living thing I came across with.

Chicken: Hi, what are you doing?

Chicken: umm, what are you doing?

Silence

Chicken: ok byeeee

Not much luck there, just kidding. Mr. Eithaan actually said hello to me first. :)))

And Mrs. Elizabeth was so pretty that I wanted to ask her if she could be in my Beautiful Women Of

Second Life section in the blog but I was too shy to ask. Now I wonder if she would have said yes?

By the way,

did you know chickens can run 9MPH and that there are more chickens in the world than humans?

Chicken: Hey lady what are you doing?

Chicken: I'm down here, what are you doing?

Silence

Chicken: Ok byeeee

By the way,

Did you know chickens are technically dinosaurs?

They are also very smart, and they also have great problem-solving skills, they comprehend cause and

effect, demonstrate self-control, and like owls, they have almost 360-degree vision.

Since I wasn't having much luck with humans, I opted for other options.

Chicken: See, it says right here that we are all chickens. You all are just ugly-weird-looking ones.

Seagull: Where does it say that?

Chicken: Right there, put on your glasses so you can read it.

By the way,

did you know that chickens are good teachers? They can pass on their knowledge to other chickens,

and like to play with each other.

So I got to watch the passing boats with the bunnies. Have lunch with the sheep.

It was really a fun-chicken day that I am hoping to repeat in the future. I felt more like myself

being a chicken than in my human avatar.... mmm, maybe I should just stay a chicken forever.

And finally,

Did you know that hens will mate with many roosters and after they can actually eject the sperm

of the unwanted ones if those particular roosters are not to their liking?

So there you have it, a new adventure like no other in the life of Lori Novo.

Thankfully, I had most of this blog post already written, just needed to work on some minor details.

Still feeling sick but just wanted to make sure I had something posted for you today .

Back to bed now. See you all tomorrow if I am feeling better.

Take care of each other.

Much love,

Lori Novo

♥

Para Ti Mi Linda Madre!

A Dedication

 

Hello Beautiful World!

Today is the Day of the Dead and I am celebrating my beautiful Virita, my mother.

Also my grandmother, my brother, Victorita and Steppenwolf's mother, and George's mom.

May all rest in peace.

My mother was a happy person, beautiful both inside and out. She loved to sing and listen to

Mexican music. Linda Ronstadt's, Canciones De Mi Padre, were her very favorite ones.

Yesterday I put up a Dia De Los Muertos altar for her in our Second Life home, and today I sang 

her all these songs she loved so much...

Los Laureles (The Laurels)

On her altar, I added everything that I could find of the things she loved in life. I was sad not to

be able to find everything but next year I am really hoping to have every single item.

I put her tamales Veracruzanos, cokes and cigarettes, and even a small Christmas Tree since 

Christmas was her favorite holiday. However, the Christmas Tree was a simple branch in

memory of the Christmas Tree that she would decorate for me as a child. I also made sure to add

a cd radio since she would spend hours listening to her collection of CDs while she would be

making rosaries out of yarn, and yes, I also added yarn to the altar.

El Sueño

♫

Me acuesto pensando en ti

Y en el sueño estás conmigo

Y me siento tan feliz

Al soñar que estoy contigo...

♫

I too love to sing.

The song above reminds me so much of my mother and it is always so hard to sing it.

However, this next song, Hay Unos Ojos, is truly the hardest one for me. It is the one song that

I always break down crying because every word in the lyrics reminds me of my mother's beautiful 

eyes that I can't see anymore. There was so much love in them, so much peace...

Every time I sing this song, I get so choked up but I keep singing while my eyes 

are filled with tears.

Linda Ronstadt- Hay Unos Ojos

♫

Hay unos ojos que si me miran

Hacen que mi alma tiemble de amor

Son unos ojos tan primorosos

Ojos más lindos no he visto yo

Ay, quien pudiera mirarse en ellos

Ay, quien pudiera besarlos más

Gozando siempre de sus destellos

Y no olvidarlos nunca jamás...

♫

This is a day of celebration so now let's change the mood and play some of her other favorite songs.

La Cigarra

♫

Bajo la sombra de un árbol

Y al compas de mi guitarra

Canto alegre este huapango

Porque la vida se acaba

Y quiero morir cantando

Como muere la cigarra...

♫

Y Andale

♫

Pero si vieras

Cómo son lindas estas borracheras

Y ándale...

♫

Thank you so much for your visit my beautiful people.

I continue now with my mother's celebration on my own.

LOS AMOOO!

Lori Novo

♥

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A Month For Dedications

Dedicated to my mother Virita, my grandmother Carmelita, Victorita, and my brother.

Hello sweet November! So good to see you again.

And Hello Beautiful World!

Lila Downs - Uno Muerte (iin anu kuu ia ni knatii)

I begin this month dedicating it to my mother's memory, my buelita Carmen, and my brother.

And also to Victorita, a sweet old lady that more than a neighbor to me and my siblings,

she was like a grandmother.

“People you love never die. 

They don't die. Not completely.

They live in your mind, the way they always lived inside you. 

You keep their light alive. If you remember them well enough, 

they can still guide you, like the shine of long-extinguished stars 

could guide ships in unfamiliar waters.”

― Matt Haig

Welcome, this is

DIA DE MUERTOS 2022

Patzcuaro e Isla Janitzio Michoacan Mex.

(General)

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Dia de Muertos 2022 this year presents Patzcuaro and Isla Janitzio Michoacan Mexico, 

one of the most representative sites on this important date, with exhibitions and all the information 

on the Purepecha culture, its Day of the Dead traditions, and more. 

The event is open from October 1st to November 3rd.

So this beautiful sim will be closing on November 3rd, thank God I got to visit it before it is gone.

I did get to visit it back in 2020 and it was totally different from how it looks this year. I

wonder why I missed it last year, hmmm?

 

Today in the afternoon I set a Dia de Los Muertos altar for my mother in Second Life. I'll

show you all some pictures tomorrow for sure. Well, this is all for now my beautiful people.

Really just wanted to welcome this month by visiting a beautiful sim dedicated to 

our departed loved ones.

Much Love,

Lori Novo

♥

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Flowers From The Cemetery

“My dear,

Find what you love and let it kill you.

Let it drain you of your all.

Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.

Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.

For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, 

but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.

~ Falsely yours”

― Kinky Friedman

Angela Aguilar - La Llorona 

(HFC English Cover FULL Version Death Maiden ft. Liliia Kysil)

As a child, I was surrounded by those who spoke constantly about La Llorona (The Weeping Woman).

La Llorona / The Weeping Woman

Hola Beautifuls!

I lived in Mexico with my mother and grandmother in a small one-room house

right next to the woods. There was a wired fence that ran for miles and miles alongside the

neighborhood. On one side, were small-humbled houses, and on the other side the woods.

Now, there was a pile of rocks on the other side of the fence across our house. It was believed that

on some nights, the ghost of La Llorona would surface from underneath the rocks and would

walk our streets while she cried. Many claimed to have seen her or at least heard her cries.

For some reason, I never felt scared about what the grown-ups were saying about this ghost

even though all the other children were very fearful that you would rarely see them outside alone

 once it would get dark. The dark never stopped me. I was a brave little girl that even grown-ups

asked for my company when they needed to go out at night.

Now, I had reason to be fearful if I had chosen to be, but I never was.

I can honestly say that I had three encounters with the Llorona as a child. 

One time, my cousins were visiting us and one of them needed to go to the restroom.

Our restroom was outside far away from the house, so I accompany her so she wouldn't go alone.

When we got to the restroom and when I opened the door for her, there was a woman dressed 

all in white standing in there. Her head and face were covered in a

white veil. I shut the door close fast and turned to my cousin. At first, I thought I was the only one that

had seen her, but my cousin was already halfway to the house crying and screaming. For some reason,

I wanted to see if the woman was still there so I opened the door again but she was gone.

On another occasion, what I saw, more like found in an abandoned house in the woods, was a white

long dress that had blood in it. This happened while my mother had taken me and some of my friends to

gather blackberries in the woods and on our way back there was a really bad thunderstorm so we all

ran to the abandoned house. While we waited for the storm to pass, we were looking around and I

saw an old trunk and that's where I found the dress. I remember my mother screaming at me to drop the

dress when she saw me holding it up.

The third one was when I was already asleep one night and in my sleep, I could hear someone crying.

I woke up and I could hear very clearly a woman crying very loudly. But it sounded like when you

scream into an empty barrel, like echoing. She sounded so sad. I woke up my mother but she didn't

hear her, even though I was still hearing her. Her cries went on for a few minutes. After a while, they

started to fade away. The next morning my grandmother also said that she didn't hear her either. By the

afternoon there were rumors from other people that had heard the cries just like I did.

Next, I want to share this Youtube video of La Llorona haunted house at Universal Studios

in Hollywood. Enjoy!

***CAUTION: FLASHING LIGHTS***

La Llorona haunted house at Halloween Horror Nights 2022 

at Universal Studios Hollywood

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