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I’ve struggled for days over this post, since it is my big 600 (YAY a number that ends in two, count ‘em TWO zeros!) and there have been so many personally exciting events to write about lately. I’ll try to recap them… maybe post #1000 will be more poignant. Continue reading
Waxing Sun
A friend of mine was laughing over Charlie’s latest exploits and said she might start doing the 365 pictures thing (see my tag cloud) with just things that her toddler had destroyed during the day. I think any mom can easily say she’s got at least one toddler clean-up a day, so it occurred to … Continue reading
The Dark Half
We’ve survived Midwinter, but the death-cycle of the year is not yet over. Winter’s second half is always the worst part of the year for me emotionally… things I want to accomplish seem impossible, I mourn my father’s passing, and the world outside is deadly cold. Sometimes when Bastian’s outside playing I stand at the … Continue reading
No Pictures Please
Lately we’ve been going through some transitions. We lost our pet snake, Eve, who was really only around 5 years old. She should have lived for twice as long but due to a number of factors her life was cut short. I will not pretend that we took the best care of her we could … Continue reading
Full Moon Blessings
I spent some time in a ritual space yesterday, and it felt really good to get back. I felt as if I had been away a long time from the spiritual part of my life. The experience left me with some ideas to ponder, and also reminded me that if we do lose the house … Continue reading
That Which Is Void is Precisely Form
The thing is to understand myself, to see what God really wishes me to do: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. … I certainly do not deny that I still recognize an imperative of knowledge and that through it one can work upon men, but it must be taken up into my life, and that is what I now recognize as the most important thing. Continue reading
Home Sweet Home Again
I woke up to the sound of a fairly hard rain on the tent and watched for a minute as the wind pushed our tent canvas around a little. Continue reading
Keeping the Faith
It’s strange how attached we become to the definitions we’re familiar with. A lot of my fellow pagans cringe when I use the word “faith” or “sin” because they are so jaded from their early experience with judeo-christianity. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t define these words in the same way as the church, nor … Continue reading
Who is Mary Diamond?
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