March 2012
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February 2012
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The Lord's Prayer from Aramaic
O cosmic Birther of all radiance and vibration! Soften the ground of our being and carve out a space within us where Your Presence can abide. Fill us with your creativity so that we may be empowered to bear the fruit of your mission. Let each of our actions bear fruit in accordance with our desire. Endow us with the wisdom to produce and share what each being needs to grow and flourish. ...
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Horse Soldier, Horse Soldier - Corb Lund
I’m a...
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Shame
So, I work with kids in my current job. I do children’s theatre. I had an experience recently and I have been mulling it over. I am not sure what I would have done differently, but what I did has filled me with shame and regret.
Scenario: I had a young boy in the show who didn’t want to wear make-up. This can be an issue with boys because they think it is “girly.” This...
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“All people dream, but not equally. Those that dream by night in the dusty...”
– D. H. Lawrence
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R.I.P.
I debated whether to post this, but I think it is important. This sounds kind of silly to read, but I am in earnest.
A few days ago, our friend and fish - Joe-fish - passed away. He will be missed. He was a good fish. Even a fish can make its way into your heart and death makes all existences transient regardless of what the next life may bring, but love in all forms is never wasted.
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A Pagan Survey
I’ve seen this on a number of people’s blogs. I copied and pasted instead of officially doing a reblog - so sue me.
Do you have a magickal name?
I do.
What does it mean?
I am not comfortable answering that for reasons of oaths and privacy.
How did you find Wicca/Paganism?
I had a friend who had acquired some books on Wicca - Uncle Bucky’s Big Blue Book and a few others. I...
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Can You Imagine (For the Child in All of Us)
Robert F. Potts Can you imagine a world without witches, A world with all people the same? Where the only known dragons are hiding in books, And children are terribly tame? A world without magic would be sad indeed. I cannot imagine the pain Of having a world where there’s no Santa Claus, Where wizards are searched for in vain. Can you imagine a world without spells, That science...
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“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is...”
– Henry James
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Love Sonnet XII
Pablo Neruda
Trans. Stephen Mitchell
Full woman, fleshly apple, hot moon,
thick smell of seaweed, crushed mud and light,
what obscure brilliance opens between your columns?
What ancient night does a man touch with his senses?
Loving is a journey with water and with stars,
with smothered air and abrupt storms of flour:
loving is a clash of lightning-bolts
and two bodies defeated by a single...
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“I love my wife.”
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“We can have glimpses of the divine, but to live with such knowledge every moment...”
– Laurell K. Hamilton from Swallowing Darkness
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Shylock, My Students, and Me →
A teacher shares how his students perceptions of Shylock have changed over 30 years and what that has taught him.
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In the Desert
In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, “Is it good, friend?” “It is bitter – bitter”, he answered, “But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.”
-Stephen Crane
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Top 10 Spiritual Gurus of India →
This site disturbs me more than I can say. As an American, I am already deluged by people telling me I have to a favorite of everything. The idea that someone can just like stuff and like them for different reasons without one being “better” is a foreign concept in this country. However, we have hit a new low when we start ranking spiritual leaders - not just spiritual leaders, but...
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“Anyone can be passionate, but it take real lovers to be silly.”
– Rose Franken
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Did HUNGER GAMES need more attention to secondary...
So, I am reading the Hunger Games Trilogy - finally. It is easy to see why this story has captured the hearts of so many and why it is soon to be released in theaters. My faith in literature for youth has been restored after a long Twilight. Pun intended. I read Hunger Games in an evening. I tonight I am reading Catching Fire. I intend to read Mockingjay the following evening. I remember my sister...
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Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson) From Through the Looking-Glass, 1871
‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!”
He took his vorpal sword...
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“Before we are citizens… we are children, and it is as children that we come to...”
– Orson Scott Card from Enchantment
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The Prettiest Boy in the World →
Totally posting this for my 1 follower - Stainsomething.
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dollydoomsday:
It bugs me how when a Christian says, “I believe in God, I have seen the face of God, I have seen angels, I pray regularly” etc, everyone thinks it’s wonderful and just great but if a Pagan were to ever say “I believe in negative spirits and negative energy, I believe in faeries, I believe in magic,” everyone looks at them like they’re fucking insane.
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“The Star
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are,
Up above...”
– Author: Jane Taylor
Commentary: I have never seen all the verses before. They’re nice. I’m not sure why no one ever sings them. 