For the longest time I have had huge trouble reading my friend's list. For some reason, despite being the same layout as my normal journal, it's taken AEONS to load, to the point where my computer literally locks up for a couple of minutes when opening it. If I want to make a comment, that doesn't take long, but then going BACK to the friends page ( Read more... )

As I moved about my room with the music fairly loud, I looked over and noticed Hendrix floating calmly and alertly at the edge of his tank. He was looking at me, so I looked back at him and smiled slightly. I thought about how intelligent his eyes looked, how aware and alive bettas are ( Read more... )

Imbolc is coming. Say it aloud. Now louder ( Read more... )

"Who will go down to the shady groves and summon the shadows there?
And tie a ribbon on their shelt'ring arms in the springtime of the year?
The songs of the birds seem to fill the wood, that when the fiddler plays
All their voices can be heard long past their woodland days..."Last night as I lay awake in the dark listening to "The Mummer's Dance" ( Read more... )

For all the bitter cold out today, I can't help but feel that the Earth is laughing.

Wild November, what secrets are you hiding from your wide-eyed daughter?

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All this talk of petty injuries, arguing, and therapy has gotten me down. I am not like this. The world I inhabit is not half so mundane or disappointing as this.

Yesterday I wrote some meaningless drivel when I should have written about the rainbow. I had no excuse for being outside or even awake at the hour I was, but I needed to. The dawn sky ( Read more... )

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I forgot to note earlier that I am really happy. I found the first pomegranates at Giant Eagle, right on time for the Autumnal Equinox. It fills me with enormous pleasure to be able to follow the cycles of certain crops, especially when I can align their presence at the grocery store with the turning of the Wheel of the Year. We may live in a city ( Read more... )

It is a radiant blue-skied day. I have always liked September.