A Bad Influence

Blessings Darlings!

H. Byron Ballard, a delicate flower of Appalachian womanhood and the author of “Staubs and Ditchwater”, is A Very Bad Influence. She sent me a copy of her book, which I am enjoying immensely and will write a review of when I am done reading it. But I’m reading it slowly, because I am savoring every word of it.

What, you ask, makes a woman I just raved about a Very Bad Influence? It’s because she makes me even more shameless about what I do that draws strange looks. Let’s look at today…..

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Odin as a God of Healing

 When Odin is mentioned in conversation most people probably do not immediately think of him as a healing deity. God of battle, of the valiant dead, of poetry, of kings, of runes, even of magic or wisdom, but probably not healing. However I have personally related to him(…)

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Spinning the web

“I thought I was supposed to stay put”, I said to George as I followed him.  ”Someone wants to meet you”, he said.  Oh..someone wants to meet me..wait..what?  Who wants to meet me? I wondered.  George did not answer just kept walking down the path.  I sighed.. Yeah no use asking him 10001 questions because […]

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Tumbled Dreams: September 15 – 21, 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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ice within

I am sitting on a rock in the dark.  I an in my favorite spot to meditate by the ocean high upon the cliffs but do not usually come here in the dark.  Unless things around me seem frayed.  I don’t feel frayed really, more of a discontent from sitting instead of working and a […]

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Ritual Structure

  Today is the autumn equinox, and as I mentioned in a previous blog about Artio, I celebrate this day in honor of Her; this is entirely my own practice, no citation(…)

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Education and validation

Validation.  Big word with intense meanings…something that corroborates a held belief,thought or action, to officially sanction it as correct response or action. Personally, I look for validations when I’m working or from my guides that what I’m doing is correct or will have the desired results I intended. I do NOT look for it from others.  Why […]

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Demeter Devotional

Blessings Darlings!

There is a call for submissions to a Demeter devotional being put together….

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And the flames burn

Sometimes one just has to burn it all down and begin again.  Those who create, either with words or physical medium understand that sometimes what we wrought is not exactly what we intended.  So it has been for me as of late.  Nothing I’ve tried has been of any use to me other than to […]

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Grace Within Fire

Who would think dreaming of a remote, self-sufficient colony would be so much damn work. We were all brought in for one or two specialties. Most of us wound up becoming jacks of all the trades. But it worked, the colony was able to continue on despite the dwindling amount of supplies from our mother country. There was talk of expansion. The more realistic among us talked of increasing stores and emergency supplies first.

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