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The case of the Missing Bedfellows

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REBLOG – where are you, allies?

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Bedfellow:

noun

an associate or collaborator, especially one who forms a temporary alliance for reasons of expediency:

Politics makes strange bedfellows.
I remember some WW2 propaganda that has always stuck with me. It was the image of a Russian soldier running and leaping into bed with Uncle Sam and a British soldier. I was still a child sneaking Time Life books, so I smirked at the unintended(?) homoeroticsm of Uncle Sam and big strapping masculine soldiers in bed together. Despite my initial juvenile sexual humor, the larger implication wasn’t lost on me.

“Our new bedfellow!” the poster proclaimed, reminding Americans that the war had shifted. Russia was on our side. The Nazis were still evil, but the Russians had seen the light, come to Jesus, and suddenly loved American liberty. They were our friends and allies. Sort of. 

This image has always stayed with me, and even as an adult I recall it when I see groups at polar ends of…

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Everyone’s a critic: The rise of the TV hate-watch

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Hey look! I’m in this! REBLOG

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It’s Wednesday night, 10:00 p.m. In her suburban Detroit living room, MontiLee Stormer is sitting down in front of the TV, her husband at her side and her laptop logged into Facebook. In Bethel, PA, Pamela V. Jones is doing the same. They are both tuned in to CBS’s CSI: Cyber – but not because they enjoy the show.

Quite the contrary.

As the show begins with the narrated backstory that introduces every episode, Jones starts a thread on her Facebook page.

“LOL ‘It can happen to you,’” she writes, echoing the fear-mongering last line of the show’s intro, which is delivered in a whisper by actress Patricia Arquette.

“They really gotta change that opening,” writes Stormer’s husband.

“Why? It sucks like the rest of the show,” replies Jones.

Thus begins the hate-watch.

Every week, thousands of people tune in to watch television programs they genuinely despise, purely to…

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100,000 times!

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Within minutes of arising I got the sensation in my nose of inhaling a bug. It is winter weather come early to Pittsburgh, causing windows to be shut tight and furnaces to run in October. Sure, a summer bug could have survived 2 nights of the freeze, seeking refuge in the warmth, and then been annihilated by a mere sniff. It seems unlikely as I see them dancing their annoyingly unsmackable rhythm in front of my eyes first, as a rule. That YOU-WILL-SNEEZE-NOW tickle is what I got first thing this morning, regardless of why.

And then I sneezed 100,000 times in a row. Yes, I wrote that. You weren’t here, you didn’t count them. ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND SNEEZES. It was awful. They were so forceful the hubster side-eyed me with fear, thinking I might sneeze up some innards, and nobody wants to clean that up.

I blew my nose 23,000 times. Yes, twenty-three thousand times; yes, I counted. Prove I didn’t. An hour and a half later it was safe to walk more than 5 feet from the Kleenex box. For a minute I wondered if I was getting a cold. Colds start further back IIRC, and I may not recall correctly. Memories of how colds start are not as easy as counting to 100,000.

Regardless, real or not, that gnat is dead.

Ah Sundays – the day where you can so thoroughly contemplate the complex doings of your left nostril and it is okay.

Spiralheart folks – new and long-term!

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It’s that time of year again! Time to submit for being on the RAT (Ritual Arc Team) or for co-leading a path at camp in July 2016!

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Our story is Medusa. Our camp intention is: We seek the Monster’s Unflinching Gaze. We are willing to Look, and risk the Seeing. Striving to hold the divine and monstrous both, we turn the gaze outward. We listen deeply, as allies, and work together to dismantle Privilege and Oppression. 

Requirements and applications for being on the RAT or proposing a path:

RAT

PATHS

 

*bounce bounce bounce*

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Looooooooooook out Detroit, the Duo hooks up again! 😀

Tomorrow I’m off to visit my Cousin By Spirit™ in the grand state of Michigan! MontiLee, whom I call Penda, is my friend, a horror author, and a kickass fellow practioner.

For those in the Metro Detroit area you can hear MontiLee read one of her pieces at The Scarab Club tomorrow night at 7 p.m. Fellow authors and members of The Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers will be there, too. Be there or Beware!

I and the hubster plan on having a fabulous time for a few days with Penda and her husband Doug, and their 2 cats!

Public Samhain Ritual – Reclaiming Pittsburgh – Sat October 24th, 5-9 p.m.

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Come join us for a potluck dinner and ritual in this time of the thinning veil. Our Beloved Dead are close and come in love with messages for the living. Honour who you are and who you came from in ritual based on the Reclaiming tradition.

All levels of experience are welcome. We are inclusive of all genders, races, ethnicities, and sexual orientations. Please bring a pot luck item to share.

You are welcome to bring a photo or item for your Ancestors to place on the shared altar.

After the potluck we will have a brief overview of Reclaiming and its particular style of ritual. We will discuss Samhain and its place on our ritual calendar. We’ll outline the logisitics of our ritual in “ritual conspiracy”, and then ritual will commence. We will have some time afterward for discussion if desired.

Come! Invite your friends!

Samhain Workshop

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There is still time to register for this weekend intensive in Virginia! My partner in Bone & Briar is co-facilitating this with a dear friend.

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This workshop is for those that desire to touch The Heart of Things, to see with an Unflinching Gaze, and to turn both heart and eye toward the Self and the Community. This is a workshop for those who want to serve their community through priestessing, learning to navigate the transition between self and service. This is a workshop for those who want to hone their priestessing skills– to refine their priestessing ‘touch’. This is a workshop for those who want to examine their own souls; who want to look at their lives and see things as they are, and not as they wish them to be. This is for those who want to confront their own rationalizations, and throw off the blindfold that society encourages us to wear. This is for those who seek the truth. Through trance journeying, deep listening, soundscaping, journaling, and other techniques, we will work…

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Surrender Your Stories – an ongoing course offering

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Surrender Your Stories:
A Pathway to Transformative Release

Course description:
This course is a self-directed four week audio course. We spend our days telling ourselves the story of who we are now, and who we will be in the future is based on the stories we tell ourselves now. Who did you say you would be? Is that who you are? Is that who you wish to be? We can step onto the path of being our authentic selves by dismantling what is blocking us. We fill ourselves with blocks built on the stories we tell about ourselves. We tell stories to ourselves and we tell stories to others. Sometimes both are the same stories! The stories we tell others matter less than those we tell ourselves. It’s time to change the stories that are no longer useful, that no longer serve us. Together we’ll release your old stories to make space so you can create new stories. These tales will reflect the authentic You here, now, and lay the groundwork for the You going forward in your life.

We are all our own spiritual authority, so move at whatever pace works for you without rushing or delaying so long between the pieces that your work has lost steam.

“I chose the audio format because for me it is intimate and personal. I invite you in to sit with me on the sofa, feet tucked under, a cup of tea in hand as we talk, whispering secrets to each other that only you can hear. I created these files on my computer, in my home. You may hear the background music of my life in the form of a chiming clock, a bird singing, or a breeze blowing. I did not rerecord files to eliminate the sounds around me. They surely influence who I am as I walk through the world and leaving them puts you in my surroundings, on my sofa, comfortably hugged by supportive pillows.”
~Boneweaver

Cost: $40

What you’ll receive via email:
A) Audio files: instruction files for each week (5), chant file (1), grounding-and-centering file (1).
B) Brief supplemental written instructions in PDF format.

Payments are accepted through the PayPal “Donate” button on this page. If the email you wish to receive the materials through is different than the one you use with PayPal please let me know with your payment.

Once payment is received the course will be emailed to you within ~24 hours.

Blessings!

Boneweaver