non update

It’s been a rough while.
While it hasn’t been a rough while since July, when I last posted, the last few weeks have taken their toll.  I’m afraid this post is only a pointer to Quarter Rest so that anyone stopping by here knows what’s up.
I am around.  I do want to post about little things [...]

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summer’ll do that, i guess

The season is outside.  Plants.  Animals.  Oceans and rivers.  Weather.
Everything has been so much more about the physical for me lately.  I’ve been aware of the changes in wind and humidity, my herbs and flowers, the crows and finches, even the ants.  My own dog and cat, the neighborhood cats and the ferns and berries.  [...]

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my memory ain’t all that good

Perhaps it’s my recent bouts of calendar and Palm Pilot dependency, but I’ve been reminded that my memory really isn’t the best thing to rely on.  So why is it that I haven’t been journalling everything that I’ve been doing, even if it’s only a short meditation and small offering?  Why do I not bother [...]

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all’s quiet on the western front

Yep, that’s me.  No new poems.  No new epiphanies.  I’ve been feeling more connections – primarily with nature spirits – around me , coming up with the occasional line snippet in my head to write from (note to self: remember filtering my breath through the smell of skin) and contemplating setting up an etsy account, [...]

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meet myrtle

Remember myrtle?  How it had been a ding moment for me in a dream?  How I had been unable to locate the tree of more Mediterranean climes?  And then I finally found the tea from the herb of the same name and biscuits as well and I thought that might be as good as it [...]

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familial preferences and other things

A short while ago, I had the opportunity to make my own rune set (by painting – rather shakily – on small wooden discs).  I have kept them in a little bowl on my bedside near everything else that qualifies as my semblance of an altar.  It is, also, the only item accessible to the [...]

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post Samhain redux

I went to my first non-class related, honest-to-gods (& goddesses) ritual.  It was, of course, a public ADF ritual and did bear striking similarities to the class rituals (heh).
In the face of the tendency of people to get up and oh-so silently make their personal offerings, it didn’t bother most that the rest of those [...]

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segmented

Despite taking the time to meditate a little more frequently, despite buying candles specifically for my altar and commandeering one of my candle holders and despite assigning a journal for “official” records, I find myself focusing on those things at the time they are in use.  At the time they are relevant.
And, though I find [...]

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let neither distance nor raging virus deter me

If only.
I have now missed two weeks of the Druidry 101 course and there was no class on the long weekend.  So, the last class I attended was on August 17.  A month ago.  Now I have to go back, a month later, and participate in a ritual and make a dance offering.  Yes a [...]

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back from the Island, waiting to go back again

We just got back today from a quick trip to Vancouver Island and I could have spent the rest of the month there.  I was only half joking when I threw a few real estate magazines at my husband at breakfast this morning.
The trees, the ocean, the creeks, the wildlife and birds, the falls, the [...]

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