***Rev Edward Livingston and Lorna Tedder, photo by Aislinn Bailey***
How often does a conversation make you do a real double-take? You know, one of those “I’ve never thought of that before” moments?
I’ve always enjoyed talking to Edward, as in Rev Edward Livingston of the Fire Dance Church of Wicca, and I had the opportunity to [...]
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As readers of today’s local newspaper probably know by now, I’m not planning to take over the road cleanup from a local pagan group that didn’t follow through on its Adopt-a-Highway contract, resulting in (cringe…cringe…cringe) all area pagans looking somewhat irresponsible and nature-unloving. (Not a good day for pagans in the press, and [...]
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***Under a crescent moon, cotton grows where peanuts used to. ***
I found myself thinking about Daddy tonight, and that’s a rarity these days. Nowadays, my trips to the farm are much more pleasant, and I don’t as often return home crying all the way and depressed for days and my children feeling the same. But not only [...]
Photo by Felipe Morin
If you’ve ever spent your fire to MAKE something happen, following your own convictions, and had someone else try to use your fuel for their own fire, you know how important it is to hold to your own vision if you’re going to make it happen.
I met The Almighty while manifesting a new project that’s been quite [...]
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Photo of anger by Amanky
Watch how things circle around within a few hours’ time. This is kind of…interesting.
The general weirdness of this week continues. I’m not sure if it’s the contentious Aries/Libra full moon or the price of gas, but people are highly agitated this week, especially over the past few days. I can explain [...]
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In an effort to anticipate the next phase of my life and make the most of the current one, I have been listening to inspirational and spiritual audiobooks targeted at people–especially women–who are 10 to 15 years my senior.
Many of them are writing now because they’ve come through a difficult period, gone deep within to [...]
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* I am enjoying men more. Not in a slutty sort of way but in simply watching them move, interact, be. At the end of my workout, I often find myself just sitting for 10 minutes or so, watching the hundreds of muscular twenty-somethings in t-shirts and shorts on the athletic field. There was a [...]
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***Cool blueprint in the sky photo by Jenny Leigh
Happy Spring! Today is a great time to make plans. It’s a threshold day.
I mean TODAY, not any “today.” TODAY, this afternoon and evening in particular. Whether you have plans for a ritual celebration or don’t even bother to note the date on the calendar, TODAY is [...]
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If you’d told me 6 months ago that I’d love Mondays–that they might even be my favorite day of the week–I would have said you were crazy. For good reason, too–I’ve hated Mondays for my entire life.
Here’s what’s wrong with Mondays…or what was wrong:
1. The weekends are never long enough. I hate [...]
Photo credit by Shannon Bailey. I think the girls had given up on kite flying at this point, except for me in the background with one waaaaaay up in the air and my mom watching from a lawn chair. Of course, when the girls tired of the kites, that’s when they tied one to Grendel, [...]
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I’m working on several projects and events that will offer some profound opportunities for others, yet it’s interesting to see how people turn down those opportunities at every chance. These are not people I’ve gone after with an offer of something grand, but rather, they’ve heard about my projects and have come to [...]
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***Me, late 20’s. New mom.***
In a world where we, if no one else, know all the millions of physical flaws we carry on our bodies and are reminded of our inadequacies in almost any women’s magazine, is it possible to love your body? Don’t we women constantly look for what’s wrong instead of what’s right?
I’ve observed [...]
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What I didn’t get for my birthday…was a tattoo. Not yet anyway. But only because I haven’t found the exact design I’m looking for.
No, no little butterflies on my ankles or roses in my cleavage. That’s definitely not me. No gi-normous totem animals or big honking pentacles slithering down the small of my back either. I [...]
Photo by wishymom.
While yesterday was a day for celebration of my birthday, today was all about contemplation. I took the day off from the workforce grind and played barefoot this morning in my yard in the windy sunshine that whispered of impending Spring. Technically, I’m celebrating all week because…well, because I want to. Because I [...]
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***Photo by Lorna Tedder – I am amazed that my camera phone came even this close to capturing the colors on the lake at Grayton Beach. There was more reddish-rust color in the middle than shows in the pic, but this picture was taken looking from the wet sand at our feet, into the lake, and toward the Northern shore, near [...]
