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kirbanita
I make things, grow things, cook things, very occasionally clean things, and tend the fire . . .
Interests: altered art/collage • alternative medicine • art dolls • ATCs • beads • bees • cats • celtic legend • chickens • creativity • crochet • dollmaking • fabric art • fairy tales • fiber arts • folklore • gardening • goats • herbalism • myths and legends • politics • prayer • quotations • reading • self-sufficiency • sewing • sheep • shrines • solitude • tapestry crochet • useful plants • wearable art
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Tsundoku
Posted 4 days ago at Take Joy!
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"Benedicto: May your trails be crooked, winding,...
"Benedicto: May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest where... Continue reading
Posted Apr 29, 2013 at Mother Bluejay's Commonplace Book
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All that you held most dear you will put by and...
All that you held most dear you will put by and leave behind you: and this is the arrow the longbow of your exile first lets fly. You will come to know how bitter as salt and stone is the bread of others, how hard the way that goes up... Continue reading
Posted Apr 19, 2013 at Mother Bluejay's Commonplace Book
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Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow Creeps in...
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his... Continue reading
Posted Apr 11, 2013 at Mother Bluejay's Commonplace Book
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ištvermė from Gangleri's Grove - Blog It's a...
ištvermė from Gangleri's Grove - Blog It's a hard people that birthed me hard and unyielding like weathered stone hungry flame, the bones of the dead, hard like the yoke of occupation and the necessary brutality of resistance. It's hard soil that holds them, concealing bones of an ancient nation,... Continue reading
Posted Apr 11, 2013 at Mother Bluejay's Commonplace Book
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The power elite, especially the liberal elite, has...
The power elite, especially the liberal elite, has always been willing to sacrifice integrity and truth for power, personal advancement, foundation grants, awards, tenured professorships, columns, book contracts, television appearances, generous lecture fees and social status. They know what they need to say. They know which ideology they have to... Continue reading
Posted Apr 7, 2013 at Mother Bluejay's Commonplace Book
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So, Things Are Different Now . . .
(Well, obviously.) But—Karolyn, Rob, Eliza and Riley live here now. So do their cats. And their dog. And my dog. And my cats. And the new kittens . . . (because there is absolutely NOTHING I enjoy more than watching... Continue reading
Posted Mar 29, 2013 at Take Joy!
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Melampos
My lover once told me of a man, who was snapped up by the mad God's fire. He ran across mountains leaping amongst angels, feverish with the fire that consumed him, feverish with the grace that spat him back to earth again reborn. He was the first to be kissed,... Continue reading
Posted Mar 28, 2013 at Mother Bluejay's Commonplace Book
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We pass through this world.
We’re the only animal which understands that it must die, that its time here is transient. And so we are surrounded at all times and in all places by mysteries. There is the past, which we remember but can no... Continue reading
Posted Mar 27, 2013 at Take Joy!
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"Those with no sides and no causes. Those who...
"Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won't take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don't like to make waves-or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small.... Continue reading
Posted Mar 26, 2013 at Mother Bluejay's Commonplace Book
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Daffodowndilly
Posted Mar 21, 2013 at Take Joy!
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Welcome Spring!
Posted Mar 20, 2013 at Take Joy!
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Another Thing on the List
of things one never thinks to have to say to one's grandchildren . . . 'Please don't put Silly Putty on the cat.' Continue reading
Posted Jan 19, 2013 at Take Joy!
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Visitation?
Posted Jan 7, 2013 at Take Joy!
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No one bothers to imagine men in baths. None of us...
No one bothers to imagine men in baths. None of us sitting home alone On a dull, rainy evening Thinks of the nude male body Half-floating, eyes closed, in scented water Littered with petals, loosening himself Into the liquid grace of muscular abandon, One arm perhaps draped over the bath’s... Continue reading
Posted Jan 7, 2013 at Mother Bluejay's Commonplace Book
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The Shortest Day
So the shortest day came, and the year died, And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world Came people singing, dancing, To drive the dark away. They lighted candles in the winter trees; They hung their homes with evergreen;... Continue reading
Posted Dec 22, 2012 at Take Joy!
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Funeral Blues by W.H. Auden Stop all the clocks,...
Funeral Blues by W.H. Auden Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message ‘He is... Continue reading
Posted Dec 15, 2012 at Mother Bluejay's Commonplace Book
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Happy Thanksgiving
Posted Nov 21, 2012 at Take Joy!
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Dirge Without Music
I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go, the wise and... Continue reading
Posted Nov 16, 2012 at Take Joy!
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Rest In Peace
John died this morning, of cardiac arrest. My other half is gone; things will never be the same. I'll be back in a few days or so. Continue reading
Posted Nov 1, 2012 at Take Joy!
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Happy Halloween!
Posted Oct 31, 2012 at Take Joy!
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Autumn in the People's Republic
Posted Oct 27, 2012 at not a pretty girl
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The Ferocious Mr. Poozle
Posted Oct 27, 2012 at Take Joy!
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Halloween Costumes—Finished!
Posted Oct 25, 2012 at Take Joy!
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Wordless Wednesday—Autumn Leaves
Posted Oct 24, 2012 at Take Joy!
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