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Look guys, I have some serious shit going on in my life right now.

Bren left me in the soul crushing, self esteem destroying way. He tried to be a nice guy about it, because he’s a good man. But it doesn’t change the whole broken heart thing.

I had a grandparent die recently.

The place Bren and I were living in before he left is too much $$$ for me to manage on my own. Not if I want any money for savings etc. I have been working harder and longer and trying to pick up odd jobs to cover everything.

I had no bed to sleep on. I’ve had to accept charity from friends, which is hard. I finally was able to pick up a bed second hand.

I have had to find a room mate, find a new place and now I am packing and moving. I have two whole weeks to pack and move.

I have had some of the dearest friends I have ever had move away.

I busted someone for plagiarism who is now trying to threaten me into silence to save her own ass.

I go onto the websites and such for the podcast and the Hedge etc and the stats feature tells me what people Google search to find their way to the websites. The most common search term in the last month or two has been “Juniper and Brendan Myers break up” Do you have nay idea how THAT feels? To know that you guys are digging around online looking for dirt on my broken heart?

This is the tip of the iceburg guys.

I need time and I need space. I need breathing room.

I am sad that I might be loosing some of your guy’s attention by not putting out an episode of the podcast, by not writing for No Unsacred Place as often, by not attending to the Hedge and my blog as much as I used to.

But it’s what I need to do right now.

I understand that MOST of you are understanding and totally get what I am saying. You care and are concerned. You’re happy to let me get my life sorted and to wait.

But some of you are being assholes. You write emails etc to me, giving me shit for not putting out an episode yet, guilt trip me for not writing on my blog more, get annoyed if I take a while to respond to emails. I am asking those people to please stop. You don’t own me. And I am not a celebrity. I am just a messy little Hedgewitch who right now, cries herself to sleep most nights.

Please, let me have a little breathing room. Or go find some other “Pagan Leader” you can throw tomatoes at.

Thank you,

Juniper

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I invite my American counter parts to come visit other Western countries, to see that there are ways to practice and encourage religious tolerance and multi-culturalism than other than your own. The American style of conflict resolution  is often filled with hate, fear and anger; reactionary and aggressive.

When I lived and travelled in the USA I was constantly amazing by the level of violence that is taken for granted within your culture. It permeates everything, even ordinary everyday language. An electric drill was called a screw gun. One does not refill a drink, they reload it.

Seeing my fellow Witches, Pagans and Heathens calling for an eye for an eye makes me sick. It fills me with shame.

Many of the words I read and hear being used by Americans within my religious body these past few days would be considered hate speech in Canada. It sounds no different to my ears than “God hates fags” or “Paganism must be eradicated” or “All Muslims are terrorists”.

As I watch the news and read and hear the words of my friends down south, I begin to wonder if I ought to move to a place much further away from the US border. Something tells me you guys are going to tear your great nation apart within my life time.

For pity’s sake, pull your heads out of your asses, before what you start grows out of control. Before what you do and say cascades and builds into an avalanche that will hurt us all … even us who are blessed enough not to share a landscape with those hate mongering Tea Baggers and their ilk. Please, I beg of you: Do not stoop to their level. You are better than they are.

This kind of anger and hate is like a wildfire, like a disease. It will spread and grow and mutate and destroy all that it touches. How can you not see this? I beg you: Do not allow your hurt, pain and anger to blind you. Do not buy into the culture of fear and hate, build a strong willed and free counter culture of peace. Be the bigger man here.

Your words and action will have repercussions for generations to come. What legacy do you wish to leave? THINK!

Here I am, upon my knees. I beg of you. Please stop this madness.

I bind you, my co-religioners … from doing harm to yourselves and others.

You should be intelligent enough to know this:

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