They say you're really not somebody
Till someone else loves you
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A year or so ago I would have hated that phrase. It makes every feminist molecule in my body bristle. How dare a song lyric imply that I need someone in my life to be whole or to be "somebody". I certainly wasn't going to change my life for another person. I wasn't ( Read more... )

My birthday is in five weeks which means it's time for my annual wish lists. Here we go ( Read more... )

go back. To the Beginning. To before there was The Stranger stalking the lands with his stolen secrets and empty heart. There was a before. There was a time before the story started.

Before The Tree and the journey there were false prophets and choices made long before even that.

The story ended even though I never found the words to finish it. The ( Read more... )

When I was little my mom would make hamburgers for dinner.

My mom wasn't a great cook. She didn't have the patience for it, and being a working single mother she didn't really have the time. Our meals were quickly thrown together as soon as we got home because I had homework to get to and she had papers to grade. When I was older I still had ( Read more... )

( Update I started in NOVEMBER and will now finish... )

I saw this meme at another friend's page, so here we go...

If you had me alone, locked up in your house, for twenty-four hours and I had to do whatever you wanted me to, what would you have me/you/us do?

All comments are permanently screened - this is our secret!

For when this hits facebook. If you want to play send it to me in a message. Or if you ( Read more... )

1. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before?

Lyra. Got laid off

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?

I don't think I made any resolutions last year.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

No, but my brother had a baby girl.

4. Did anyone close to you die?

Thankfully no.

5. What countries did ( Read more... )

My very favorite part of the holiday season is wrapping gifts. This year I decided I'd combine my love of wrapping with my need for some extra cash ( Read more... )

running behind today, but I just wanted to take a moment to say:

Life continues to be amazing and incredible. I'm so looking forward to seeing where everything is headed and I cannot tell you the last time my heart was filled with this much joy and love.

Goddess this time of year is magickal.

right now I am the happiest I have been in a very long time.
I am filled with faith and peace and a deep sense of joy.

It is flooring how beautiful it is outside today, and it has felt that since my feet hit the ground this moring every aspect of this day -the sunshine, the music on the radio, the people I've talked to- have been little hellos from ( Read more... )