I was on my way to visit Cora today. She’s fading fast, they’ve been saying. It’s been over a month since I visited and it was time anyway. I better get over there, I thought. While there’s still time.

There is no time. I am out of time. I will not see her in the body again.

There is no time. She is out of time: she has passed beyond the veil of ( Read more... )

 In the last few weeks I have been reaping the whirlwind in ways I am not ready to describe.

Yesterday I turned 32. I spent the whole day at work because we had a rancher conservation workshop in the evening that I had to stay for, so it was a really long day. But it was a good one in some ways because throughout the day I kept getting emails and ( Read more... )

I just got news that my great-uncle Perry died ( Read more... )

Late yesterday evening, it started snowing. We found out when we got done watching Stardust and went outside to switch the power. Avia has been all about "Do you think it's going to snow while I'm here?" so I yelled into the house to tell her "Hey, it's snowing ( Read more... )

Lots to catch up on. I'm at dionysusdevotee's family's house in Santa Clara having a quiet moment in the middle of lots of hubbub. I feel like I've spent most of the last few weeks away from home, between visits to the city for birthdays, blessingways, solstice, christmas, and it's not over yet ( Read more... )

One Mercan holiday down, two to go.
Thanksgiving was mostly fine. We kind of had to rush around being crazy in the morning, because there was a boat that had to get moved Right Now, whilst I was trying to make the pumpkin pie, before we could get on the road. Dinner was very, very crowded: over at dionysusdevotee's parents house there were his mom and dad, the ( Read more... )

I took Monday off work to recover, and was out all day at a regional parks seminar Tuesday, so this is the first time I've had to write about my Samhain ( Read more... )

I am waist deep in the week-before-Samhain madness. Rushing around doing a million errands to get ready for the rituals, final planning details, emailing a brazillion people, etc etc. In the middle, I have an evening meeting for work I have to stay in town for, which doesn't help my time management any. Whew. Poor dionysusdevotee has it worse than me even, ( Read more... )