This is my Stacie girl. Today I had to let her go. With her, I let go of a huge, immensely important piece of my world. I didn’t think that I would feel like writing this today but grief is a very strange beast and it does what it will. I’m certain that I will continue to move through the various stages of grief, as time goes on. When it’s time to Read More
Tag: death
The Stages of Grief
Most everyone is at least a little bit familiar with the concept of the stages of grief. Regardless, a lot of us need to hear this again. Most of us need it right now, more than ever. I know I do. For so many people, this past year has just been tragedy after tragedy. Sure, many of them happened in parts of the world we’ve never even been to. But if you Read More
Animal Sacrifices?
chicken-livered – adjective: Cowardly; easily frightened. ETYMOLOGY: The word chicken has traditionally been used to describe a coward. Also, earlier people believed that the liver was the seat of courage. But chicken-livered or chicken-hearted, it’s all the same. Earliest documented use: 1616. Source: Word A Day, by Anu Garg ———— Why am I starting with that definition? First, because it was the word of the day in a newsletter that I get Read More
The Thing About Depression
The Thing About Depression… Read More
Thank you, Santa Muerte
Thank You, Santa Muerte One member of my spiritual court is Santa Muerte, or La Santisima Muerte, the “Most Holy Death”. While she frequently helps me with a great many things, granting various requests for myself and my patrons, one thing She typically does not do is “talk” to me. I don’t ever hear audible voices from Spirits, personally. For most conjure practitioners, when they “talk”, it’s a type of telepathy that Read More