Tags: values

• 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 [...]

• Compost and Stone

  Last night I dreamed I was sitting in a grove with a lineaged Traditional Witch or Wiccan.
  I am not sure which Path she was on exactly, dreams are like that, but I knew she was hard-nosed Traditional.
  We were discussing our different world views and Paths.
  She leaned against a large grey boulder or small standing stone and said:
  “My Path is like this stone, strong and old; a solid foundation upon which to build.”
  Then she pointed to a pile of leaf litter [...]

• Me

  I will be me
  Unequivocally
  Always
  And in every situation
  No audience
  No following
  No friends
  Or family
  Will make me be
  Anything other than
  Me
  I am not a one dimensional character
  I am an onion
  I have many layers
  It may take time
  For them all to see
  All that is me
  Sometimes happy
  Sometimes sad
  Sometimes compassionate
  Sometimes stark raving mad
  Though I am a human being
  And thus I will change and grow
  And often be a different me
  I will still always
  Be me
  But always and forever
  I will be me
  Consistently
  With integrity
  I will be me

• 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 [...]

• Somethings You May Not Know

  Plenty of folks with leather jackets and combat boots have good jobs, an education, own a house and are good parents (etc)
  Plenty of hippy-types and non-conformists are good, intelligent people
  Just because someone is a non-conformist, or just plain ol’ dresses funny, doesn’t mean they are a “have-not” … some piss poor loser on welfare
  Just because someone lacks a formal education doesn’t mean they might “drag down” your class
  They still yank girls out of school to help run the farm and [...]