Archives: September2009

• A Few Good Reads

  Earth’s Children series by Jean M. Auel
  Bambi: A Life in the Forest by Felix Salten (not a children’s book)
  The Black Jewels series by Anne Bishop
  Anything by Marion Zimmer Bradley & Diana Paxton
  Greenmantle & Into the Green by Charles de Lint
  The Sea Priestess by Dion Fortune
  Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
  Sing the Four Quarters by Tanya Huff
  The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
  The Emberverse series by S.M. Stirling
  Anything by Mary Stewart & Jack Whyte & Morgan Llywelyn
  Boudicca: The Warrior Queen by M. J [...]

• A Random Rebuttal

  The laypagans have been getting on my nerves lately. That’s my problem, not theirs, I’m big enough to admit it.
  I believe that people need to shake free of this McWicca mentality and stop looking for easy way to anything.
  However … we can’t fault laypagans for being laypagans.
  Not all of us are called to a deeper path, not all of us are smart, or educated, or disciplined.
  Some of us may have learning disabilities or have other things going on in our [...]

• September’s Hearth

  Fireplace Day, the first day the fireplace or woodstove (etc) is lit up for the cold season. A page torn out of the book of my history; Chapter One: Early Childhood Memories.
  The first fireplace I recall was a great big thing of white brick and a dark granite hearthstone that stuck far out beyond the reach of the fire itself. As a young child I could lay upon the hearthstone in front of the metal screen that kept the [...]

• Same Old

  It’s the same old, same old.
  I’m sick to death of it!
  I have spent the last 15 years inundated with Paganism 101.
  The next time I have to do the “Be a Tree” meditation I’ll scream.
  I’m going to pull my hair out the next time I have to eat a salad mindfully to connect with Earth.
  I am so sick to death of “All Hail Great All/Goddess/God/Spirit/Nothing” pick something already!
  If I have to sing yet again the same stupid Wiccan chant I’ll puke.
  I [...]

• Let’s Go Ride Bikes!

  In Merritt and Kamloops BC

• The Messy Witch

  I am a messy little hedgewitch
  I don’t want neat and clean
  Nice and safe
  Organized and orderly

  Keep your sterilized spirituality
  Keep your suburbs

  Don’t try to save me
  I like this mess

  Keep your answers
  I want to live in the questions

  Give me dark and chaotic
  Freedom and independence

  Let me think for myself
  I want to figure it out

  Keep the mystery in Mystery please
  I don’t want your textbook

  I don’t wanna know what’s round the bend
  I’m going there to find out
  For myself
  Yeah