February was one of the hardest months of my life in years. I had delayed doing a write up on it until I had gained some perspective on everything. This will be a long post, but the short version is that in one month I lost the cat I have loved as my familiar for 15 years, got a staph infection, had surgery, became a cat foster parent, got my ( Read more... )

I collect stories, and I always have. Back to the very first of my memories I was collecting them, and now that I work in Medical, I do so even more. My senior citizen patients are usually terribly lonely and desperate to talk, and at my job I have the luxury of the time and the doctor's encouragement to talk to them as long as it does not ( Read more... )

For those who do not know, Proponomicon is a blog dedicated to Cthulhu Mythos inspired art. It has long been a huge inspiration of mine and being featured on it has been one of my goals. On December 9th they featured one of my pieces with the back story. I only found the post today, but I may have let out several shrieks, done a happy dance in ( Read more... )

First off for those who were worried, Cumi is better. I still suspect thyroid problems but he is back to normal for his high strung feline self. Second, I have not been writing here much due to being super busy ( Read more... )

Cumi is sick. He has a fever of unknown origin with dilute urine, high hematocrit and WBC but no left shift. Slightly high BUN from stress but we really still have no clue what's going on with him ( Read more... )

I have a lot to think about today, as Lilith used me to save someone's life at work. This is me talking about spirituality and Western medicine and how I try to combine them.
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Or at least a pain in my hands. On how the three inlaid leopard teeth came to be and my work with Leopard on them.

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Today I want to talk about dogs, death and spirits, as my title may imply. Some work related, some probably not to be read over dinner and some introspection on Death.

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Beltane celebration was this weekend at Four Quarters Farm.
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I am back in the studio again, studying with Michael Brehl. I would link to his website, but it looks to have been hacked. Crafty stuff below the cut.

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