© 1977, 1994 by Yael R. Dragwyla

(Previously published in The Egocrat, produced by Merlin's Bookstore, Isla Vista, CA)

It is dawn.
* * *Fire-fogs enshroud the coasts ( Read more... )

This morning I had what might have been the best dream I've ever had. I was staying with Hades, Persephone, and Their young daughter in Their home, which was located on a nice suburban street much like many of the ones located all over Southern California when I was a child. It was afternoon, perhaps around 7 or so on a Summer day in the Northern ( Read more... )

Trolls, take note: No, this isn't a rant on the die-off of bees and other pollinators, so lower those flamethrowers and git.

In his book Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis, Rowan Jacobsen points out that the critical phenomenon in the life of honeybees is the hive, i.e., the colony, not the individual ( Read more... )

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% mosinging1986Those of you who have been reading my blog since before Boxing Day 2004 know that in the last 6 years I have lost two cats I have loved with all my heart: Puggsley Speedball Pickula, who died in the vet's office ( Read more... )

Storms Force Obama to Cancel Memorial Day Speech in Illinois - AOL News

AHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

And much thanks to Baron Samedi, Lord of Cemeteries as well:

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And to Lord Hades, Who keeps our honored dead safe until God calls them home:

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And to Hermes, Psychopompos, Who is also Lord of Practical Jokes. XD

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XVI.

But far to north( Read more... )

Taken from Lord Macaulay’s Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome (Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay, editor and translator. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896), pp. 841-853. Old (pre-Christian) Rome, like the United States of America, was ruled by both Mars and Mercury, the latter in His aspect of Lord of the Sign Gemini. Gemini memorializes Castor ( Read more... )

Whereas the Archangel ruling over Islam -- as Mohammed himself taught( Read more... )