Eris, one of the two rosebushes I have on my porch, has produced numerous HUGE buds, and around 5 of them have just opened, revealing gorgeous blooms, each petal white, yellow, and light pink below and red at the tip! They are absolutely stunning. Somewhere between Miracle-Gro and the way I talk with and handle my plants this plethora of beauty ( Read more... )

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/03/02/humans-verge-6th-great-mass-extinction-experts-say/

Should we care? I often read rationalizations about why species should be preserved. All too often these polemics center on future ( Read more... )

This morning I woke up from yet another dream exemplifying the most frustrating thing about so many of my dreams: nothing ever goes right, even when it should, even when it absolutely has to ( Read more... )

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I've been toying with the idea of writing a short story or novella about a young girl who is maybe in her mid-teens who prays to Shub-Niggurath to deliver her from the hell on Earth her father or some other male guardian has been inflicting on her. She can barely read, but she has overheard her older brothers talking about the fiction one of them ( Read more... )

I got to wondering, what if, in the middle of George Orwell's 1984, Nyarlathotep appears, calling the good citizens of Oceania to worship of the starry heavens, and Shub-Niggurath walks among them, seducing them all, and then Great Cthulhu rises from R'lyeh, because the Stars Are Right, and it's time for the Great Old Ones to take back the Earth ( Read more... )

Perhaps I should have been a little less aggressive in yanking out all the mushrooms I found growing in poor Eris's potting soil. This last couple of weeks has been a nightmare -- every day, almost, I've found spreading white fungal stains and egregiousy prolific fungal webs growing on Shub's leaves, and fungal blight all over Eris. I've sprayed ( Read more... )

http://welcometoafreeworld.blogspot.com/2010/07/7-congressman-deliver-seeds-to-arctic.html

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That isn't a bad idea in any event. We -- humanity, our world -- came this close to losing emmer, the ancestral stock of reliably ( Read more... )

The Goddess Shub-Niggurath's counterparts include the Greek Aphrodite, the Roman Venus, the Egyptian Hathoor, the Norse Goddess Freya, the Archangels Auriel and Haniel, and other rulers of the Element of Earth. Those who have been buried alive by avalanche, premature burial, or other interment in the soil are among the wards and avatars of Shub- ( Read more... )