I write this mostly to you Jeanne, and Aine, as you two are the only people so far who've ever taken the time to comment and have conversation with me.
Does sexuality and sexual identity have a place in witch craft or paganism?
It's something Punky and I often discuss. I have little experience/knowledge and she has very very singular personal beliefs.
For example, she and I were watching Big Love recently. We both love/hate the show. The drama is good, but the morals are .. twitch inducing. One of the wives on the show was previously an LDS Mormon but is currently a polygamist/fundamentalist. Her and her husbands beliefs include a deity called Heavenly Father, who seems very male oriented. In this last season she feels that she is a Priesthood Holder. Apparently, this is not something a woman should hold. It's sort of a big deal.
Having both been raised Christian as children, Punky and I had pretty strong feelings about this. Mostly we stuck out our tongues and raspberried the screen. We believe women can be preachers/pastors/people of titles in all religions. Even in ones that ask that their women be more subservient. Subservient does not equal non-title-haver to us.
In my case however, I can always see the other side of it. I'm the devil's advocate that way. Punky could not. I asked how she might feel if a man approached her, claiming to walk the witch craft path, but... rather than identifying with The God dude, he were to claim The Goddess instead. What if he claimed to embody her in his rituals. She did not bat an eye. That's my Punky. Equality for all. She thinks a man can embody The Goddess, and vice versa, that The Goddess would totally crawl up in a dude.
Is she alone? I've met a fair share of witches and pagans of many different paths but I noticed that all of them seem to have little room for homosexuality in their path. Mostly, I think, because Wicca can be so God Goddess based. The Great Rite is about a man and a woman. The cycles of life and death and life are so imbued with women on one side, having babies, growing wise, and men on another. What happens when two men are in love and walk such a path? Or two women?
Just some questions, humbly posed to two of the ladies I admire most on the interwebs. Open of course to anyone else who might drop by with their own two cents.
-Angelwick
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Post-Weekend Catching Up!!
Alrighty... so once again, life picked up and blogging got a little cast to the side. The truth of the matter is that I am only a quarter of a century old. The Organizational Force is not yet strong in me. Sit with Yoda I must.
Mama visiting was accomplished as usual. This too is an aspect of our life that has been improving. The Brat's relationship with his grandmother is evolving as he grows. Lately they've taken to reading together, which is a big deal since The Brat is still struggling with it. Lela, as his grandmother is affectionately called, is very proud of him.
Banking for the week has been accomplished. We're still in Beginning of the Month mode, so it's still important to plan and prioritize so that the end of the month isn't a tight mess. For example, tomorrow is food shopping day. Punky and I are off to our local BJ's to stock up on goods. Our savings have been put away, minus expenses for the upcoming trip to sleepy hollow, which should only be denting our wallets by about a hundred dollars for all three of us. My credit card balance has been paid off in full, which only tallied up to about eighty dollars, leaving a healthy amount in the bank.
Despite the sillyness of it, I still check CreditKarma everyday to see if my file has changed any. After all, all this saving and planning and whatnot is only the laying of the foundation for our future. It's a little exciting.
Over the weekend we picked up some sidewalk chalk to play with. Spring break is coming up for The Brat, and even though he'll be attending a week-long thing at his school, there'll still be time for playing with the parentals. Also, we picked up his yearly Easter basket at Kmart. It's us of course, so we broke it open and rearranged it. We're all about letting him hunt some Easter eggs, but we're not down with packing them all with candy. He gets a healthy dose of stickers and small toys and erasers. His teeth are important, we try to make sure he gets that.
Punky made him a cute countdown calendar for the kitchen with some of her scrap booking supplies and some construction paper. Now each day he let's us know how long until the Easter bunny arrives.
Did we mention at all that the kid's got glasses now? He's the cutest little hipster thing on the block with his converse frames and Shaun White skinny jeans and cute little shirts. Not to mention his leather jacket that gets him at least two compliments a day.
What else? Punky brought up the other night possibly finding her way back to witch craft. This is largely thanks to Aine of The Deepest Well and her awesome posts. Thank you ma'am! I hope Punky finds her way okay, even if she doesn't find all the answers.
Punky is also excited about Scream 4. This will be only the second time that we'll have had the luxury of seeing something at a theatre since the parenting trip began. Woohoo. Nachos and slurpees here I come. Also, Woohoo, Punky has lost three more pounds.
That's the big stuff, which isn't very big at all. I've been haunting peoples blogs again, lurking about and being me as usual. I've also been meaning to blog about a few other things, but I've sort of forgotten the faux names I've given to friends and neighbors to keep their anonymity. Might have to scroll backwards and figure that out.
Happy Spring Nights to all who stop by.. Lot's of love and good feelings..
-Angelwick..
P.S. - Someone remind me to blog about Mad Mad House and the many discussions it spawns. Also, Sister Wives.
Mama visiting was accomplished as usual. This too is an aspect of our life that has been improving. The Brat's relationship with his grandmother is evolving as he grows. Lately they've taken to reading together, which is a big deal since The Brat is still struggling with it. Lela, as his grandmother is affectionately called, is very proud of him.
Banking for the week has been accomplished. We're still in Beginning of the Month mode, so it's still important to plan and prioritize so that the end of the month isn't a tight mess. For example, tomorrow is food shopping day. Punky and I are off to our local BJ's to stock up on goods. Our savings have been put away, minus expenses for the upcoming trip to sleepy hollow, which should only be denting our wallets by about a hundred dollars for all three of us. My credit card balance has been paid off in full, which only tallied up to about eighty dollars, leaving a healthy amount in the bank.
Despite the sillyness of it, I still check CreditKarma everyday to see if my file has changed any. After all, all this saving and planning and whatnot is only the laying of the foundation for our future. It's a little exciting.
Over the weekend we picked up some sidewalk chalk to play with. Spring break is coming up for The Brat, and even though he'll be attending a week-long thing at his school, there'll still be time for playing with the parentals. Also, we picked up his yearly Easter basket at Kmart. It's us of course, so we broke it open and rearranged it. We're all about letting him hunt some Easter eggs, but we're not down with packing them all with candy. He gets a healthy dose of stickers and small toys and erasers. His teeth are important, we try to make sure he gets that.
Punky made him a cute countdown calendar for the kitchen with some of her scrap booking supplies and some construction paper. Now each day he let's us know how long until the Easter bunny arrives.
Did we mention at all that the kid's got glasses now? He's the cutest little hipster thing on the block with his converse frames and Shaun White skinny jeans and cute little shirts. Not to mention his leather jacket that gets him at least two compliments a day.
What else? Punky brought up the other night possibly finding her way back to witch craft. This is largely thanks to Aine of The Deepest Well and her awesome posts. Thank you ma'am! I hope Punky finds her way okay, even if she doesn't find all the answers.
Punky is also excited about Scream 4. This will be only the second time that we'll have had the luxury of seeing something at a theatre since the parenting trip began. Woohoo. Nachos and slurpees here I come. Also, Woohoo, Punky has lost three more pounds.
That's the big stuff, which isn't very big at all. I've been haunting peoples blogs again, lurking about and being me as usual. I've also been meaning to blog about a few other things, but I've sort of forgotten the faux names I've given to friends and neighbors to keep their anonymity. Might have to scroll backwards and figure that out.
Happy Spring Nights to all who stop by.. Lot's of love and good feelings..
-Angelwick..
P.S. - Someone remind me to blog about Mad Mad House and the many discussions it spawns. Also, Sister Wives.
Friday, April 8, 2011
A fishy sort of breakfast !
Just had fishsticks for breakfast. Further proof that nothing is ever done the traditional way here. Actually, it's just the product of being a night owl who doesn't get to bed until about five in the morning. I woke up at around two in the afternoon, and the better part of the day was spent planning and budgeting for our mini getaway to Sleep Hollow.
The sixteenth and the seventeenth of this month the Philipsburg manor will be doing its annual Sheep to Shawl event. There will be sheep there, of course, and Punky will be lucky if she's able to pry me away from them at the end of the day. No one really knows how I feel about sheep. I may love them more than I love Halloween and most people know how I feel about that. More info on Sheep to Shawl can be found at www.HudsonValley.org in case I suddenly wake up famous and thousands of people read my blog.
We also prepped The Brat on our upcoming field trip. This seems to work wonders for us all, and is our new drug of choice. It gives him something to look forward to, and he doesn't feel like he's being left out of the loop or being kept in the dark, which is a harsh thing for him since he's a curious little thing. That's what we did for the trip to the aquarium. He got to visit the website, see pictures of the exhibits, and behaved wonderfully.
Punky is the tiniest bit let down that this means that we can't surprise him with things, as again he is nosy and doesn't like not being told where he's being taken, but I think that his behavioral improvements are worth giving up on surprises. At least temporarily.
Our financial situation is looking good and we're trying to keep it that way, despite shopping around for a new camera since ours is busted and possibly looking into some pantry shelves. The key will be to balance our spending with a bit of belt tightening anywhere we can manage it.
Alas... Punky calls.. more blogging later.
-Angelwick
The sixteenth and the seventeenth of this month the Philipsburg manor will be doing its annual Sheep to Shawl event. There will be sheep there, of course, and Punky will be lucky if she's able to pry me away from them at the end of the day. No one really knows how I feel about sheep. I may love them more than I love Halloween and most people know how I feel about that. More info on Sheep to Shawl can be found at www.HudsonValley.org in case I suddenly wake up famous and thousands of people read my blog.
We also prepped The Brat on our upcoming field trip. This seems to work wonders for us all, and is our new drug of choice. It gives him something to look forward to, and he doesn't feel like he's being left out of the loop or being kept in the dark, which is a harsh thing for him since he's a curious little thing. That's what we did for the trip to the aquarium. He got to visit the website, see pictures of the exhibits, and behaved wonderfully.
Punky is the tiniest bit let down that this means that we can't surprise him with things, as again he is nosy and doesn't like not being told where he's being taken, but I think that his behavioral improvements are worth giving up on surprises. At least temporarily.
Our financial situation is looking good and we're trying to keep it that way, despite shopping around for a new camera since ours is busted and possibly looking into some pantry shelves. The key will be to balance our spending with a bit of belt tightening anywhere we can manage it.
Alas... Punky calls.. more blogging later.
-Angelwick
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Dear blog I am feeling lazy
Actually, I think it's more pain then laziness, but I still don't want to move. What's worse is I'm bored out of my skull. Anyhow.. Hello lovely blog, it's good to speak to you again. It's been a few months I think. A very long time indeed, but here I am now. Only I can't remember anything I want to ramble about.
It's been good here. The brat is doing well, not always behaving but he is a kid. Angelwick and I are doing good. The home life is treating us well I think. I'm glad it's going as well as it is. I can't wait for summer. We have so much planned. We're going to be sticking The Brat into lots of fun things, and going to be headed to many fun places. I personally can't wait until we go to six flags. I'm so excited.
Actually, speaking of exciting places, last Sunday we went to the Aquarium. We all had a ball. The Brat was amazing, and only acted up a few times, which is such an improvement. It was sort of a test run to see just how well he behaved himself, and he's come so far. I was really proud of him. We really did have a blast, and if I could get pictures of our cell phone I'd share them all. But sadly I can't.
We've been dieting as well. Also a month now, and it's going alright. I miss food. Hardcore, but it's getting a little easier. A little bit, not much, but something is better then nothing. Saturday is our cheat day and we're still talking about what to do. Something wonderful I'm sure but who knows.
Easter is also coming up. I think I want to take a trip into the city to find The Brat an Easter Basket. Maybe one for Angel too, but we'll see.
For now, that's all I can think of rambling on and on and on about, so I'm off.
Punky signing off and wishing everyone a wonderfully perfect weekend.
It's been good here. The brat is doing well, not always behaving but he is a kid. Angelwick and I are doing good. The home life is treating us well I think. I'm glad it's going as well as it is. I can't wait for summer. We have so much planned. We're going to be sticking The Brat into lots of fun things, and going to be headed to many fun places. I personally can't wait until we go to six flags. I'm so excited.
Actually, speaking of exciting places, last Sunday we went to the Aquarium. We all had a ball. The Brat was amazing, and only acted up a few times, which is such an improvement. It was sort of a test run to see just how well he behaved himself, and he's come so far. I was really proud of him. We really did have a blast, and if I could get pictures of our cell phone I'd share them all. But sadly I can't.
We've been dieting as well. Also a month now, and it's going alright. I miss food. Hardcore, but it's getting a little easier. A little bit, not much, but something is better then nothing. Saturday is our cheat day and we're still talking about what to do. Something wonderful I'm sure but who knows.
Easter is also coming up. I think I want to take a trip into the city to find The Brat an Easter Basket. Maybe one for Angel too, but we'll see.
For now, that's all I can think of rambling on and on and on about, so I'm off.
Punky signing off and wishing everyone a wonderfully perfect weekend.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Hello again dear blog...
Spring has sprung, and so have I. It's finally time to wake up from the winter hibernation, the moody blues of snow and slush and cold and ick.
It's time for sitting at the window, dreaming.
I've decided to try again to share my life as much as I can. I can't live under the fear of my ex forever. Otherwise what was the point of the messy divorce? I'm just letting him win each time I want to blog but don't for fear he'll somehow know and use it against me. It's still going to be pretty anonymous, I don't name The Brat, for example and I'm not exactly handing out invites to my house for tea.
So.. What have Punky and I been up to? Alot of the same stuff we'd been up to before. Dieting, we've each lost some weight, trying to work out though that is rather new, and .. uhm.. stuff.
Okay, so we haven't been crazily productive. This is not our fault. We've been drifting in a lazy river of contentedness, and for us... it's both a welcome break and a very good thing.
We are preparing for Easter. Punky is not much of a celebrate-r of this holiday, but I like any excuse to spoil the Brat and give him memories. So, we cut out like a hundred paper flowers out of construction paper, along with stems and leaves and pasted them all over our kitchen windows. Punky even made pretty green grass for it all. Sadly, no pics this time around as our camera is busted and our cell phone won't let us take pics off of it.
A very nice neighbor of ours saw it all and said he could always tell the time of year by our windows, because we like decorating them so much.
Previous to our spring extravaganza we had St. Patty's Day stuff in the windows. Also a holiday we don't really celebrate, but we made a special trip to the Irish Arts Center open house and that was lots of fun. We got to listen to awesome music and The Brat even learned to Mash the Banana!
Life has been good,and Punky and I have been trying to be very grateful for it. Now if only I could break the spell on not blogging, all would be terrific.
-Angelwick
It's time for sitting at the window, dreaming.
I've decided to try again to share my life as much as I can. I can't live under the fear of my ex forever. Otherwise what was the point of the messy divorce? I'm just letting him win each time I want to blog but don't for fear he'll somehow know and use it against me. It's still going to be pretty anonymous, I don't name The Brat, for example and I'm not exactly handing out invites to my house for tea.
So.. What have Punky and I been up to? Alot of the same stuff we'd been up to before. Dieting, we've each lost some weight, trying to work out though that is rather new, and .. uhm.. stuff.
Okay, so we haven't been crazily productive. This is not our fault. We've been drifting in a lazy river of contentedness, and for us... it's both a welcome break and a very good thing.
We are preparing for Easter. Punky is not much of a celebrate-r of this holiday, but I like any excuse to spoil the Brat and give him memories. So, we cut out like a hundred paper flowers out of construction paper, along with stems and leaves and pasted them all over our kitchen windows. Punky even made pretty green grass for it all. Sadly, no pics this time around as our camera is busted and our cell phone won't let us take pics off of it.
A very nice neighbor of ours saw it all and said he could always tell the time of year by our windows, because we like decorating them so much.
Previous to our spring extravaganza we had St. Patty's Day stuff in the windows. Also a holiday we don't really celebrate, but we made a special trip to the Irish Arts Center open house and that was lots of fun. We got to listen to awesome music and The Brat even learned to Mash the Banana!
Life has been good,and Punky and I have been trying to be very grateful for it. Now if only I could break the spell on not blogging, all would be terrific.
-Angelwick
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