We've begun a concerted effort (hmmm ... I've never used that phrase before) to save on groceries ( Read more... )

My father sent me a book he's been working on. It is actually very good. His life as told in vignettes of the dogs he has "known" through his life. Which includes other animals, too ( Read more... )

I wanted Winter ... as always there is a point in Fall that I'm done with it (it is often put to rest at Samhain ( Read more... )

Luna had a little thingie on her post where you entered a word and the site gave it an advertising slogan, stealing from the phrasing of ads out here ( Read more... )

I am still crying ...

What a night!

Goddess, permit us this hope. That the world will be better. That our beloved country will be better. And that we will each be the better for whatever the next years bring.

Hope begins the healing.

One of the things that has been fun to do for every holiday is to share with the Clan some things I have written over the years. This morning, to wish them a blessed Samhain, this was part of what I wrote to them ( Read more... )

This morning I had my first quiet time in a month. At first I felt like a sponge, soaking it up and craving more and more. And that taking in felt so good because I have been doing nothing but sending out. I could feel myself filling up ... with calm, with silence, with ease. I lingered on the moment when I felt "full up" and then let whatever ( Read more... )

Good intentions to get to the new UU church I've been visiting went amiss this morning ( Read more... )

Spirit of Fire, rise in me, breathe through my body.

Burn all that is inconsequential into ash.

The pure bone of what matters is left behind.

The whiteness of what I am true to.

At the tip of the blade, all is clear.

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