House and Hair Remodeling
Michael and I are living in the chaos of contractors. Furniture has been piled in the center of rooms. Plastic is draped over everything. Drop clothes cover the floors. We are having the old 1963 wallpaper removed, the plaster walls repaired, and everything painted in bold, bold, BOLD colors. The cats are loving it — [...]
Yes, there’s a conference for that.
Tonight I am heading over to Ballston to attend the National Capital Region’s Pagan Leadership Conference. Every year someone asks me why I continue to go. Sometimes the agenda is not something I am interested in. Sometimes the town hall session becomes unbearable. Sometimes there is someone that I really don’t want to interact with [...]
Drawing What Makes Us Unconfortable
I’m linking this post to the one right before. I think they make sense together, but what do I know. This last weekend, I participated in a workshop, Awakening Creativity Through Spiritual Practice, taught by Sylvan at Reflections Mystery School. You know you’re in trouble when your response to a trance is, “Whoa! Deep! F**k!” The [...]
Co-creating 2010
It seems everyone is writing the intentions they are setting for 2010, whether they be in the form of goals, or dream decrees, a word for the year, or vision boards. I have a hard time with goals. I often feel indecisive about formally writing anything down out of fear. Fear of failing. Fear of [...]
New Design for New Year
I’ve been thinking about it for a while, but today I finally sat down and redesigned the web site. I also upgraded to the most recent WordPress while I was at it. I wanted something really clean with three columns to integrate more social media aspects and this really cool book recommendation widget. I still [...]
Winter Solstice Blessings
This is my meditation today on the Winter Solstice. In the sunlight and the shadows of leafless, winter trees, I walk alone and silent. Hush, child, and listen to the quiet expectantly. Yes, there it is — so still most miss it — the heartbeat between the waning and the waxing. Just a moment, quick [...]
Mother Nature says SLOW DOWN!
Well, I had plans today. The cats had a vet appointment. I was scheduled to donate blood, then run over to Jo-ann Fabrics to pick up some material for a project. And we had dinner guests scheduled to arrive around 6:00pm from DC. Tomorrow, I was going to Becoming‘s Dark of Winter ritual. None of [...]
Living one night
Living one night as if in a Peter Greenaway film– Verdant, succulent, wholely inappropriate, wild, untamed, unrestrained, gold, glittering, moistly dripping, rash, foolish, mad… Dionysos, make me no promises we both know you won’t keep. Just sweep me into your arms, Into your manic joy, and Spin me around like the dizzying, dancing, divinely laughing [...]
Pilgrimage
I carry in my mind a picture postcard of the day you left, Sepia-toned, faded, and worn around the edges, Where my eternally seven-year-old chubby fingers stroke, In devotion– A pilgrim to an ancient shrine where, Saints cry blood and the wicked Are forgetful–missing and ever present. Truth, lie, or heretical imagining, This is my [...]
Preparing for Company
We had our first party here at the new house yesterday — a bit of a “thank you” for those folks who helped out with the Samhain ritual and their families. Having the house filled with my family of choice with their kids bought the house to life the way I imagined it when we [...]
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