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grandmother selkie

verhext — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:08:11 +0000

I don’t know if I can stop crying long enough to write, but I don’t know what else to do and I’m home alone until later tonight. My grandmother died this morning. She was 92, and she said she wanted to rest, and just went to sleep. I’ve been dreaming for weeks she was going [...]

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icing sugar

verhext — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:56:33 +0000

For the last, oh, 6 years, I’ve been starting December with wish lists; intentions, dreams, & desires for the year to come. But this year I don’t want to count my wishes, I want to count my blessings, to draw all I love close to me and hold it tight and clutching maybe a little [...]

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many ghosts

verhext — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:33:15 +0000

Dia de los Muertos, San Francisco. Writing about it is kind of like talking during the procession, it’s too difficult, strange. Everyone swirling in their own heads and spheres, separate in a sea of thousands of skeletons, dancing around the demons, communing with the ancestors. So here are evidences of the spirits all around us, [...]

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calaveras & candles

verhext — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:30:06 +0000

found image In order to soothe my autumn-needing-soul, I’ve started thinking about Dia de los Muertos already. Summer ends, the earth starts closing up shop for winter, the cycles of life surround us. Rituals celebrating the deaths of ancestors have been observed by cultures all over the planet. All Souls’ Day in European folklore and folk [...]

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the ones you know no.2

verhext — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:52:08 +0000

The one everyone knows! The secret center of the cosmic spiderweb hum hum hum!! Mention Austin in a crowd of strangers, and surely everyone will say “Austin? Do you know Angel?” & of course…they do. Perhaps I shouldn’t speak so loudly, I’m sure there’s meaning to her magical web-pulling ways, and we’ll all be drawn [...]

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