Offline for a while
I've spent the last few months shoring up my protections, both in the real world, and online. For non-christians, especially anyone following pagan or pre-judaic beliefs, the USA is getting more and more scary, returning to the frenzy of the 1980s satanic panic. Christian commercials are popping up everywhere, congress is brimming with faith-based legislation, and “satanism” and “witchcraft” are being brought up again and again in legal circles all over the country.
My brothers and sisters, I urge you to seriously examine how public you want to be about it. Things are only going to get more banana-fucking-batshit in the next few years.
In the non-doom-and-gloom realm, spring has finally kicked in where I live. Aside from lighting a few candles, and leaving a few small offerings, Ostara and Beltane completely blew by us. It's been a stressful year so far. Work and home life have been overwhelming, and my partner has been very ill. She does seem to be on the mend though, finally.
The summer solstice is only weeks away, and my partner and I are planning on marking the day by camping as far out in the forest as we can manage, where we are unlikely to see other people, and spending the day having sex out in nature, in an open clearing. We have a location in mind, which we've used for this in the past. We're looking forward to it.
Speaking of nature, we have weasels here now. I saw several in the forest where we spent our Memorial day weekend. They've only appeared in the past few years. Before that, foxes and raccoons started showing up maybe 10 or 15 years ago. These are animals that were found several hundred miles south of us, but never in these mountains. As the climate shifts north and east, animals are moving with it.
It's interesting to watch it happen.
That's all I have for tonight.
Take care.
-Tom Blueleaf