“It’s no accident that my favorite deity is Hestia, or as the Romans called her, Vesta. Goddess of hearth and home. I pray to her a lot, along wit... Mother Gaia, Kubaba Cybele, the Cappadocian Goddess Ma, Hecate, Isis, and Dann or Dana. Brigid as well. Demeter, also known as Ceres, from whose Latin name the word cereal is coined.“Yes, I’ve come a long way since my Jesus Freak days. Our church incorporates a very eclectic combination of spiritual and religious traditions, including the Buddhism. Keri wore what she usually wore to go out dancing, a short skirt and a halter top. Her full breasts filled the halter top and her skirt came only one third of the way down her thighs. She had nice long legs and she knew she looked good. Instead of her usual high heels, though, she was wearing a pair of sensible flat shoes”Dancing blind, you know,” she said in way of explanation.”You look great,” Adam told her, meaning it. He thought she was the hottest looking woman on the planet and he loved. My heart was beating a thousand times a minute. I followed Ashley to the kitchen to help her put the beer in the fridge. She nervously lit a cigarette. Her hand was shaking as she took the Marlboro light to her lips. It was the first time I ever saw her nervous about anything.My mom and Lori were already on their second drink since they've been home. I'm not sure how many they had at the bar but it seems they were getting pretty drunk.Ashley and I walked in the den and joined them at the bar.. He knew that locks of some kind would need to be used, probably several to bind himself. He felt that the best way would be to have a plastic funnel filled with ice from which he would thread some string through. The key would be attached to the string but would be on the top of the ice. In this way, the ice would have to melt and when it did the string with the weight of the key would fall down, close enough to Chris where he would be able to get to it and release himself. He would have at.