The God Box
I just have a few finishing touches to make on a commission for my mother’s partner. She had a plain wooden box that someone had given her and wanted me to decorate it. The only guidance was that she wanted to use the box to hold her kabbalah cards. Each card has one of the [...]
Last Night I Dreamt A Song
Last night I had a dream that, thankfully, I woke up from. Becoming had gathered in a park for a thanksgiving feast. There was much grumbling because there were a lot of people milling about, it was a bit chilly, and it had started to sprinkle. I asked everyone to gather around the tables, which [...]
Childhood Dreams
Yesterday I began watching this video of Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch‘s “last lecture” given September 18, 2007. Pausch recently died from pancreatic cancer, and my good friend Ketzirah posted her mourner’s kaddish and the video over at Peeling a Pomegranate. The lecture is about accomplishing your childhood dreams and enabling others to accomplish their [...]
Ambivalence of Lammas
For many people, Lammas is a time of celebration of the first harvests. For me, this time of year is a struggle, especially with the blast furnace heat and/or oppressive humidity of the last three places I’ve lived (Oklahoma, Houston, and DC). In August, I feel like someone forgot to close Balor’s evil eye after [...]
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