Sassy the Tambourine
So this is my tambourine. Her name is “Sassy”.
Isn’t she pretty? Let me tell you about her!
I bought her at a music store downtown for about $12. Yep, only $12. I know a lot of people spend good money on their drums but since I have never owned one before I thought it would be wise to start cheap. This way if I decide this was a bad idea, or if I break the thing (I’m clumsy) then I won’t be out of much money.
So this is my “starter drum” and that’s just fine with me.
She has about the circumference of a dinner plate, making her roughly medium sized as far as tambourines go. That seemed like a good size to start with, not too big, not too small. Sassy fits in my hand pretty well though I am finding that my hands get a little sore after a while, partly due to not being accustomed to holding something like a tambourine and partly because I tend to tense up and hold her too tightly.
She has 8 double zils or clackers. I was hoping for 9 because I like that number better but it seems… Continue reading
To Fly By Night
The book is out!
This is the anthology that I wrote and essay for; in fact it is the “What is a Hedgewitch” essay that helps to open the book! It is published by Pendraig in California, a small (but growing) Witchcraft Publisher. It is edited and compiled by Veronica Cummer and has such contributors as …
… to name only a few.
Here is the little blurb:
Hedgewitch Craft takes its name from the practice of travelling beyond the boundaries, of going past the “hedgerows” that divide what is known from what is unknown. Hedgewitches utilize diverse techniques to undertake the night-flight into strange and sometimes dangerous places in order to gain spirit-allies, magickal abilities and knowledge, to heal and to commune with the Gods and the ancestors.”
From the ancient to the modern, from the philosophical and historical to the practical and mystical, these essays span a wide variety of paths and approaches.
My own copies are still on their way, that’s how new this book is, and I can’t wait!
Where can you buy this book? Check out Amazon; check out the Pendraig webpage for a… Continue reading
To Fly By Night
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