my frontal lobe is numb. i only have one more walk, no pointers. i'll do a mind meld with mister. and back to hibernation. there's a cumulative aspect to the penetrating cold. days wear you down. even my bike is suffering, the salt and the extreme cold. it wants to have a bath and rest. my vivo boots have been brilliant, but the cold was claiming my toes this morning. i'm lucky i'm in vista with r. and don't hafta like nafta do the deadly ride home.

partnership. a gift.
this is r.'s new year rune.

drawing this rune is an indication that partnership in some form is at hand. in love relationships, in partnering of every kind, you r. put on notice not to collapse yourself into that union. for true partnerships achieved only by separate and whole beings who retain their separateness even as they unite. 
at the same time, there is another aspect of partnership that you are being called to consider. for the path of partnership can lead you to the realization of a still greater union- union with the higher self, union with the divine. the ultimate gift of this rune is the realization of the divine in all things: god always enters into equal partnerships.
gebo, the rune of partnership, has no reverse, for it signifies the gift of freedom from which flow all other gifts.