Happy thanksgiving everyone. I’m doing a book giveaway for a signed copy of my new book Pagan Portals: the Morrigan when it’s released next month. If you are interested you can enter here:
Giveaway ends December 10, 2014.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.
I hung out with Sapphire last night, and over Mexican take out, we talked about relationships. (It’s very reminiscent of where we were both at the same time last year, with her having just broken up with someone and me feeling lonely and being too concerned with a potential connection with someone that is not […]
I am once again doing National Novel Writing Month this year and attempting to write the third novel in my trilogy. I may have been a smidge ambitious this time since I only just finished the second one and am, in all honesty, a bit burned out. However I’m soldiering on to get the first draft done. In the 25 days of NaNo I’ve written a bit over 54,000 words towards what I expect to be between 100 – 120,000 when its done. So I’m about halfway there. It’s been taking a lot of my attention though and as with last November the blog is suffering a bit.
Blessings Darlings!
Hunger is every less visible than most issues. One in 6 Americans can’t afford basic healthy food, especially fruits and vegetables. (http://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/impact-of-hunger/hunger-and-poverty/hunger-and-poverty-fact-sheet.html). Even when folks are on food stamps, virtually none get the ‘full amount’ (roughly $140 a month for an adult). Many who are in need have no access to stores that sell food at a discount, due to not having cars, due to living in food deserts, due to long expensive bus trips to get to such stores, due to living in rural areas, etc.
Would you know if your neighbors are hungry?
Blessings Darlings!
Tis the Season … to discuss hunger, homelessness, and related issues.
I’m a bit busy but I don’t want to not blog at all, so here’s a tidbit of translation, Irish courtesy of Hennessey’s The Ancient Irish Goddess of War, translation my own.
**This review was first published in the peer-reviewed Celtic Reconstructionist magazine Air n-Aithesc, for more of the same and some awesome articles too please check out the Air n-Aithesc Website
Editors: Sharon J. Arbuthnot and Geraldine Parsons
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Published: 2012
ISBN: 978-1-84682-277-3
Pages: 238 including index
Synopsis: Stories of Finn mac Cumaill and his fían (warband) constitute the most enduring popular branch of Gaelic literature. These thirteen essays, the first English-language collection on the subject to be published in over twenty years, offer new insights into diverse aspects of the tradition. (Taken from the back of the book)
Review:
[Out of respect to the author, no excerpt or mangling of her poem will be posted here. Please click through to her site to read the entire post as intended.]
My third attempt at translating a normally untranslated portion of the Cath Maige Tuired: this excerpt occurs during the battle itself when the Morrigan appears to incite the Tuatha De Danann to win the battle. The Irish text is from Gray’s 1983 version from the Irish Texts Society. The English translation is my own, with the usual caveat that I am not fluent but am offering my best understanding of the material. Usually it ends after “Kings, arise to battle….”
Last weekend I attended the Changing Times, Changing Worlds conference, an annual regional conference on metaphysics in the northeast United States. I’ve done workshops at the conference 4 out of the 5 years its run and I really enjoy attending. This year was no exception, with many good workshops and panels as well as excellent conversations with both attendees and other presenters.
One of the most interesting panels I saw was “When is it okay to tell someone they are wrong?”.