A young person of my acquaintance has been ranting and raving lately about someone who is Pagan, which apparently goes against everything said young person believes in and is the cause of much distress for them in a FAUX News kind of way. Fortunately, they have not seemed to notice the Broom hanging in my […]
This is not a lecture! I’m not trying to scold or shame anybody! What I am asking is for you, dear Reader, who are clearly a smart, compassionate, brave and loving soul, to defend, support, and normalize depression, anxiety, bi-polar, PTSD, schizophrenia, and all myriad forms of neuro-atypical struggles you see in the world. The […]
In the Terry Pratchett books, it’s the Dwarves who are horrified when words are erased. I think I know Pratchett well enough to know that if Tennessee were in Discworld, there would have been a riot a few nights ago. Vimes would have called everybody in. Detritus would have been there with his Piece Maker […]
It came to me while doing a bit of writing a week or so ago, that the circle we cast for doing magical work is not only a container and a protector, but a time travel device. It’s all in how you program it, I think. The circle is a little piece of sacred real […]
Your heart should always arrive before your head. It’s an old Sufi saying, and I don’t know who actually said it. In fact, it’s such an obscure saying that a Google search results in cardiopulmonary results and nothing about Sufis at all. Sheesh. But let that roll though your heart, and spin it on up […]
Confession time: Independence Day in the US is just about my least favorite holiday – followed closely by Gouge Your Own Eyeballs Out Day. I mean, I love my country but … First of all, if you are any kind of a student of history, you know that the horrors of slavery and segregation were […]
Alchemy is much misunderstood, usually over-simplified, and frequently used badly out of context – all to the fierce detriment of an amazing tradition. Very rarely these days does anyone actually study the true art, because wowzers, those people tend to blow up a lot of stuff and reek of rotten eggs all the time. I […]
The search is over. We know where it is. Women have always known. Oh, we play plenty dumb, and try to be helpful with questions like, “Where did you last see it?” and “Can you remember if you had it when you were fighting the Black Knight?” But we totally know. And we’re not telling. […]
You aren’t going to be done healing before you die. I’m not trying to be a Debbie-Downer here. It’s actually a wonderful truth. Change = Life. But I’m gonna say it’s healing that allows change to happen, and we’re all going to be healing until the end of our lives. Especially people who have lived […]
Reader, some of you may have noticed that I have added “Alma” to my name, between Gayla and Drake. I get so many complements on my name. It is a good name, very pretty. Here’s the actual story of why my parents named me Gayla. My mom’s little brother was dating a woman, briefly, called […]
