Mugwort, and sumac, and grapes, oh my!

Blessings Darlings!

Wednesday I FINALLY made my monthly trip to the DC suburbs.  I have business to do there early in the month, and I try to combine a lot of things in the trip.  However, it’s VERY hard to drive there without a car … so the trip had to be delayed from Monday when I intended to go until Wednesday, when my car cooperated.  Car needed an offering of a new starter before it was going ANY where.  Or, as we say around here, “O Entropy!  Dread sister of Death”.

Yes, we are Shakespeare sluts.

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Fire and water

Apparently I am protected by those who have always done so..I had no intention of going anywhere, and yet  I find myself  in a boat going down the bayou to a protected glade.  I reach the shore and smile as I catch the scent of herbs already wafting through the air.  Yet as I reach […]

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Tumbled Dreams: September 22 – 28, 2012

What are “Tumbled Dreams”? These are the posts I made to my tumblr during the week because I felt they did not warrant a separate post on this blog. However, these “interstitials” often explain some of the backstory to the larger dream posts. For those readers that only read Three Different Ways, they may help explain some of the characters and sudden changes in plot and direction.

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Apologies


Blessings Darlings!

All apologies to Rogers and Hammerstein, who wrote the original words and music to the song “Oh, What A Beautiful Morning”, and to Dr. Who for the second verse, but I feel some filk coming on.

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the Good Neighbors

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Autumn

Blessings Darlings!

Fall is an insanely busy time around here.  The Chubby Hubby has caught up on work after the summer conference he teaches at and is involved in new projects, for one thing.  For another, the weather has finally cooled off so I’m doing more things.  Meanwhile, the garden hasn’t really slowed down yet.

The first thing I did with the cooler weather was…

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The Unquenchable Decision

“You’ve started some shit, you know.” I was helpless before her, and there was not a raven in sight. She picked up my defenseless form and placed me onto a nearby cold pyre. Humming contentedly to herself, she arranged more bones over me, nearly covering me completely. “There. You know what to do now. You go ahead and take care of things. I’ll keep watch.” The woman that once swore my destruction turned her back on me. I almost cried again. Instead, the fire lept from my heart and took to the bones. In the midst of the conflagration, I settled into deeper sleep.

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Calling Out Plagiarism

Blessings Darlings!

I respect authors, artists, etc – as a result, I take a hard line on plagiarism, as I’ve mentioned before. And I don’t keep silent when I see folks do it FaceBook.  Oddly enough, that doesn’t endear me to some people.  Specifically, it doesn’t endear me to plagiarists.  Which, actually, cheers me quite a bit – if I am to be known by what groups hate me, being hated by plagiarists is a fine thing in my never humble opinion.

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why Reconstructionism?

self-portrait, circa 1995, oil on canvas

The question was asked on a Facebook group I belong to, why do the group’s reconstructionists follow that approach? While I no longer think of myself as a Celtic recon, per se, I do feel that reconstruction is a big part of my own practice and I enjoyed thinking about the question. I decided that …

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Equinox

Just some pics from me and Andrew’s small Equinox meet-up, we laughed, we drank, we hung out with awesome neighbors, we sang songs and made magic with mead in our bellies.

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