I am a firm believer in place. Every place has a magic all its own. Sometimes that's just a good or bad vibe, sometimes it's the associations I bring to a place, sometimes its the peculiarities of a landscape, sometimes all of the above, and sometimes, yes, I mean actual magic.

I have been with Adam for 8 years. I've been here, to Santee*, ( Read more... )

A friend of mind, nosce, just had her baby, 4 days ago. She has a blog elsewhere where she chronicles her life with photos (she's an incredible photographer) and she posted her birth story. She had one of her friends take photos of her labor and birth, a professional photographer, and the photos are..... spectacular. Raw. Intimate. They capture the joy ( Read more... )

Book:
The Hounds of the Morrigan by Pat O'Shea. Yup, it's Irish, by an Irish woman. A magical, mythological children's story about a brother and sister pursued by the Morrigan and her hounds. It's interesting to compare it to the Dark is Rising series, which is based on Welsh mythology. I prefer Hounds. It doesn't take itself quite as seriously and ( Read more... )

Our New Year's Eve ended up being different than planned, but it was good. Bennett just didn't go to sleep, so we all watched the Doctor Who Christmas special. Bennett LOVES 'Doc Who'. By the time B fell asleep there wasn't enough time to do our collage. Adam and I were in bed by 9.30. Oh yeah ( Read more... )

It's been fascinating to read Facebook updates yesterday and today. It seems that for lots of people - people who follow astrology and mysticism and even among my more Christian friends - that 2010 sucked. Maybe sucked is too flippant. 2010 seems to have been riddled with extra-difficult challenges and many disappointments. All ended with a ( Read more... )

Most of my days are filled with thoughts about religion/spirituality/theology/practice/the Divine/etc/what have you. If I'm not reading about theology and the Virgin Mary, I'm reading about yoga or devotion or magic or some such. Or I'm doing yoga, or walking and praying and noticing and being. One of the many things that has been a blessing about ( Read more... )