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Comment on Grief for a Dying Dream by Andy

Andy — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:22:37 +0000

I couldn’t put the sentiments of this blog entry better myself. Too much focus on the tunnel and what’s coming, of course, gets you to a point where you cannot personally function. I used to cripple myself mentally with worry about the bigger picture. But now, more than ever, gaining a sense of what we each can do is important. What we each do matters, with even the smallest positive action making a difference. The banks, the greed, global warming, extinctions, food shortages, riots… I try to be loving, I work to guard myself against undertaking negative actions, or thoughtless actions that may have negative consequences. And I grow things, I nurture wildlife in our garden, I keep hens (all of which you know via Twitter).

No, nothing I do stops the madness. But we have more butterflies, more bees, more insects and creatures dropping by, taking shelter that two years ago was not there because we did not live in this house. We invoke gentle but powerful spirits here, seeking to awaken the spirits of the place and to enjoin our ancestors for help in fighting what is here already, let alone what is coming. And, of course, we give a home to rescue hens coming from the hell of intensive factory farms that are part of the problem. We can’t help all. We can help some. We each should wake up and do what we can, and take joy from the good we do knowing that, in the end, we tried.

It sounds fatalistic, and I guess I am - but I am also positive about the power of the ordinary, the everyday actions, the will of people. I don’t think the will is there among our species as a whole to change, not before it is too late. It may be already. But I like to think some of us, come the train you reference, did try. It is in trying we find the gods and our own strengths, not in winning or losing the war for our planet’s and our species’, all species’, futures.

Comment on the devil did NOT make you do it by sharon knight

sharon knight — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:52:02 +0000

Hear hear!! I like your point of view.

And thanks for visiting my blog. I am new to the blogging thing, but it seems fun.

All the best - Sharon

Comment on NaBloPoMo: what did I learn? by bella

bella — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:13:40 +0000

@Eridanus (seer-eridanus on LJ):

*lol*… love to you too, good sir!

Comment on NaBloPoMo: what did I learn? by Eridanus (seer-eridanus on LJ)

Eridanus (seer-eridanus on LJ) — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:14:21 +0000

How zen!

Love ya,

Comment on Expand and contract. Repeat ad nauseum. by bella

bella — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:22:10 +0000

@Eridanus (seer-eridanus on LJ): What a wonderful idea, making one’s own calendar! I’ll do that, thanks!

Comment on Expand and contract. Repeat ad nauseum. by Eridanus (seer-eridanus on LJ)

Eridanus (seer-eridanus on LJ) — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:17:38 +0000

The interview I did with the budding folklorist was about a calendar I did for Pagans in the DC. It was a middle ground:
- using the societal calendar [because us Pagans are too involved with the world to convert their schedule to lunar/agricultural];
- the need for support in a secular society/culture;
- recognizing that Pagan calendars are local, and DC is not agricultural; and,
- the need to be in sync for where/what we are.

I renamed the months, to remind us of what was that month in our spirituality. I used less agricultural names for the holidays to speak to an urban population (divorced from the farming). I noted peculiar holidays to DC (Cherry Blossom Blooming). Cross quarter holidays were from the traditional observed to the astrological (because it felt they were that long= Samhain/All Souls Passing was 7/8 days long). And I made each quarter holiday 3 days. So, in all holidays, there was time for ritual, for celebration, and for fellowship. The calendar is in one of my earliest entries on my website: treptower.com.

It helps me a lot. and fits where I live.

I’m, also, in a contracting mood. That you for posting

Comment on life is good by bella

bella — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:01:02 +0000

@Yarrow - hee!

Comment on life is good by Yarrow

Yarrow — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:39:05 +0000

“She watches home improvement stuff on the TV when she’s laid up! Doctor, what can be done?”

“Nothing, I’m afraid. The disease has taken firm root. She’s doomed to a lifetime of slowly improving home health.”

Comment on another person to check out by bella

bella — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:43:28 +0000

I clicked on one of your photo galleries, and it was in there .
You’re quite welcome, and the feeling is mutual!

Comment on another person to check out by kate

kate — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:09:09 +0000

thanks for the shout out . . . and where in the world did you dig up that pic? i was so happy at that time . . . or at least hopeful . . . i was living in this cabin on a mountain in rural virginia, and spring had just kicked in . . . and i so appreciate your warm words on my blog . . . your energy is so lovely