Project Check In
I figure its time to check in on my progress with various projects that I have been working on.
My shawl is nearing completion. I have crocheted enough rounds to form the shawl itself and now just need enough for the deep hood I want on it. Then I have to put them all together. It is a riotous mix of spring and autumn colours, which I plan to bring together with shades of brown. My friend Lis suggests this might make it look like a meadow. I’ve already posted about the shawl once before and will again as it gets closer to being finished.
The great big afghan I have been crocheting for the last year is up to some 115 rounds (give or take), I need about 150 before I can start piecing it together.
My learning to play the tambourine continues. Read about my choice of instrument here and see pictures of her here.I know how to hold it in a couple of different positions and the different ways to strike it. Now it’s all about practicing to gain skill and develop rhythm. Tap tap tap tap tap … ONE two three four One two three… Continue reading
Smarty Pants!
You don’t need “Pagan” books to be a smarty-pants Pagan. Most libraries (even small ones) have books on history, mythology, folk lore, archaeology and so forth.
There’s more to being a smarty-pants Pagan than being well read as well.
Its called critical thinking and deep thinking.
How about observation? That’s a good one too!
Here’s an important one: application of knowledge.
And another thing! Thinking for yourself and not doing what a book tells you, but sorting the information and coming to your own conclusions, then trying them out, then back to the drawing board.
The problem is that a couple of books or classes aren’t going to make you an intellectual or a smarty-pants Pagan. That’s the first step on the road.
Link Love
I have been updating the link sections for the Hedge and for the podcast. So I figure it’s time to point you all to a few of the blogs, articles, websites and podcasts that I wander over to now and then. (Sorry if there are any repeats from previous link posts)
If Witches No Longer Fly: Today’s Pagans and the Solanaceous Plants by Chas Clifton
The Phony Reading
So as many of you may know, the Samhain episode of Kakophonos featured a bizarre disappearance of its host and our friend Rikki. Please click here to catch up on the out come of the shenanigans before continuing to read.
You’re back? Alrighty …
As part of my contribution to the social theatre I posted an update on the podcast website, posted on Facebook, created a “missing person” poster and did a Collection casting “trying” to divine what had happened to Rikki.
It’s the augury that interests me and that is the focus of this blog post. That’s right! I faked a reading, a phony casting with my Collection (click here to see the blog post about it). While doing so I learned something.
Now first let me state clearly that I discussed this with my Collection … And to be honest writing that last sentence felt a little loony, but its true. I unwrapped the leather bag from it’s handkerchief (I keep the leather bag wrapped in a silk handkerchief sometimes), opened it up and explained that we were going to help a friend with a little joke.
Each piece in the set has something of a spirit… Continue reading
To Fly By Night
Hoofprints in the Wildwood
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