Categories: Rantings & Ravings

• The Square Peg

  I have often thought that
  If only I had been born into a tribal society
  I would have been given a costume and drum
  A place and role in society
  And happily spent my life as a shaman serving my community
  Instead I am stuck working retail
  Moving through Western society as awkwardly
  As a square peg jammed into a round hole
  And practicing my spirituality behind closed doors

• 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 and since the Olympics are just around the corner in my hometown, and that means a lot of traffic and frustrated people. I thought I’d share it now.
  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 [...]

• Annoyed

  I am growing tired of wishy-washy Pagan speak:
  Well, that is your opinion, this is my opinion.
  But opinions don’t really matter, because everyone is different.
  Unless you place value on other people’s opinions, that is.
  Neither of us is right and neither of us is wrong for anyone but ourselves.
  I however do not judge, I simply perceive for my reality is perception.
  So just do whatever feels right for you, but only if you want to.
  Let each walk their own path.
  You may choose to [...]

• Repost: Instinct vs Research

  This one is on Witchvox this week and is host to a number of typos, I’m not sure how they got there. I must need a proof reader or something. So here is a cleaner version for y’all:
  “This is what happens when you dabble! You can’t practice the Craft while you are looking down your nose at it.” ~ The Aunts from Practical Magic
  So why do I have to do all this required reading and research? Isn’t that work? Its [...]

• Don’t Think!

  Balance.
  Yes yes yes.
  That checkbook, that bank account, that job you do, the errands you run. Keep pilling shit on the teeter totter and never stop to wonder … why is this shit on my teeter totter? Whats does it mean? How do I feel about it?
  The things that need changing and fixing the most is our society and culture. This conformist, mindless, horrid world where the gross domestic product, and keeping up with the Jones’, is the most important and [...]

• Eating Your Totem

  Okay. So my dear Bren may or may not have eaten his “Totem” for dinner last week. And I joked about it. A few people had panic attacks about this. So in my usual sweet but sarcastic way let me address this.
  First of all, I am the kind of woman who has been known to start pillow fights in the middle of the afternoon in downtown Ottawa. I don’t take life all that seriously. I take my Witchcraft seriously, but [...]