Archives: March2009

• Hedge News

  First up in the News
  I soapbox rant of mine made it on Witchvox last week. No great surprise there right? Another rant on the Vox.
  What was surprising was is it actually lit a fire in the online pagan community at large, albeit a very small one.
  I am no psychologist nor sociologist so I will not hazard a guess as to why this article, of all articles would catch on so well myself. Well I will but I’m not sharing them [...]

• Beltaine at Misty Acres

  I am hosting Beltaine (May 1st to 3rd, its a weekend) at my farm, Misty Acres.

  Please come out and enjoy 55 acres in southern British Columbia that backs onto thousands of acres of back country. Misty Acres is located on a mountainside between Grand Forks and Greenwood.
  Misty Acres has access to the Trans Canada trail on the property. There are several lakes nearby as well as the Kettle Valley river, which is world renown for its inner-tubing (though [...]

• Who I Am

  Trickster is what I am
  Crooked is the Path I walk
  Satire is the language I speak
  Knowledge is what I seek
  Acceptance is what I will never have
  Space cadet is what they call me
  Lost and not-lost is how I feel
  Trust and truth is how I cope
  Before the Horned One do I kneel
  My soul was part of the deal
  Strange is the life I lead
  Lonely is what my heart beats
  A different road lies beneath my feet
  Curiosity is what drives me
  Controversy is what I stir up
  Coyote [...]

• Patty and the Snakes

  One upon a time
  On the misty moors of old Erin (Ireland)
  The people had a faith
  We now call pagan
  They loved the land and honored their dead
  They were good folk
  Folk like you and I
  And their Druids were oft called
  The “serpents of wisdom”
  For the snake did symbolize
  Wisdom
  Hidden meanings, cycles
  Life and death
  And the gods and goddesses
  Then along came a man named Patrick
  Who said to his priests and armed men
  “Lets us drive out these snakes
  From the shores of green Ireland”
  And so he did, with word [...]

• Another Article on Witchvox

  An article I wrote a while back about how people need to stop complaining there are not enough Elders and start working on becoming Elders themselves was put up on witchvox this week. I was out of town and didn’t know until I got home!
  Thank you everyone who has emailed me, and I promise to get back to everyone. Might take me a week but I will.
  I have gotten the strongest response from HPs and community leaders, half a dozen [...]

• What a Flagger Does for a Living … and Dies for

  (I wrote this one years ago, but I still bring it out every spring when the roads open up and the construction season begins)
  My mother is a Traffic Control Person, also known as a flagger. You know, one of those people in the orange or yellow vest who stop you at construction sites.
  Many people hate to see a flagger with a stop or slow sign in their hand step in front of their vehicle. After all, you don’t want to [...]