Musings About the Land: Wells Gray Provincial Park
I took the day off, loaded up my bike and headed out into the backcountry yesterday.
I had a wonderful day at Wells Gray Park, it is one of the largest provincial parks in BC and it’s so beautiful. It has many waterfalls of all shapes and sizes; I only saw a couple of them.
First I just drove through the park along the main road all the way to the very end, as far as you can drive a car into. Which stops along Clearwater Lake, it really has clear water! It also falls into a stunning waterfall and is like a mini Niagara Falls; especially the view from the top, the lake just suddenly DROPS, falls and then becomes a river, its awesome.
Then I headed back about half way through the park to a trail that had stood out to me while looking at the map. It is a loop trail that runs through what used to be an old settlers farm back in the day but was donated to the park ages ago.
You can go past the old barn and farm house that have been left to go back to the land, and see where… Continue reading
Pagan Values: Aging Parents
I have an ethical question for you all:
Is a person obligated to care for an aging parent who had been abusive and/or neglectful to them, and what if they continue to be at least verbally abusive?
At lunch with my older brother he had made a comment that he was willing to take as much care of Dad as he took care of him as a child, which is next to nothing. Late child support payments, visiting once in a blue moon, cutting him loose for 5 years when he got into trouble as a teen.
It got me thinking, my mother needs help because her hands are crippled with arthritis, the hands that used to pull my hair and hit me and throw things at me. The very woman who used to stand there and do nothing while her hubby beat me or walked about the house naked playing with his cock in a manic depressive haze…
So many in my generation have dead beat dads and mothers who allowed step fathers to abuse us etc. Are we still responsible for their care when they failed to care for us?
And what of step-parents? Many of us now… Continue reading
A Little Bit About Me
This is from an email I sent someone, but maybe it belongs here instead:
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I wasn’t raised to wear the same clothes as every one else. I wasn’t raised to drive the same kind of mini-van as everyone else. I was not raised to be a sheep-person.
I was encouraged to wear socks that don’t match if that makes me happy; I was allowed to wear PJs out in public if I wanted to. I was allowed to dye my hair purple and go to school in a tutu.
Now look, I know that most people from white bread, middle class, Christian upbringings think that any parent who would wear a Motorhead T-shirt or who takes the kids to a Grateful Dead concert is some low-life.
Wrong.
I was also raised to be hard working, not never expect anything to be handed to me. I was raised to be grateful for what I had and to not place too much value on material objects. I… Continue reading
The Babes Are Coming Home
Okay so usually I keep my animal rescue life separate from my Pagan Blogging here at The Hedge. But since I had already posted about Maia’s life and death as well as about the death of one of the ladies who had taken the babes to her kennel to be fostered…
I’m sure some of you would like an update.
Here are a couple of pics of the little guys. They now have opened their eyes and have started weaning very well, we thought we might lose one of the boys but he is coming around.
Now that they are weaning, we can take them back from their tired foster Momma (Thank you Monkey Girl) So I will be taking them home in the middle of the week. I will keep you guys posted on how they do, and we will be needing homes for them in about a month BTW…
And this was sweet Maia
That Stick Up Your Ass
… or everyone doesn’t have to be nice, or serious, all the time … especially me!
In fact I am almost never 100% serious, even when ranting. But you can take me any way you like, its all good in my world(s)
Satire:
* A literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn
* Trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly
* A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
Sarcasm:
* A sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
* A mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual b : the use or language of sarcasm
Trickster:
* One that swindles or plays tricks.
* A mischievous or roguish figure in myth or folklore, often an animal, who typically makes up for physical weakness with cunning and subversive humor.
* A mischievous being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts.
* One who tricks or deceives the hero of a… Continue reading
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