occasional posts by risa aratyr
Risa Aratyr To all my pagan and pagan-esque friends who think Samhain has passed . . . In a few hours Mother Earth will have reached that powerful moment in her circuit ‘round the sun that is the exact mid-point between the fall equinox and the winter solstice. TONIGHT is the cross-quarter. TONIGHT is Samhain Eve. This … Read more The Season of the Witch
Caveat: this Garden Island Vacay blog-series will not be studded with drop-dead stunning pics of the Garden Island. I doubt I’d have managed many great snaps if I’d tried. Only a truly skilled photographer with all the right equipment could hope to capture Kaua’i’s breathtaking natural beauty in stills – and even then, sorry, they’re … Read more Two Tickets to Paradise – part ii: first look
I wasn’t an ideal younger sibling – far from it. Throughout our childhoods, my stable, amenable, tolerant sister Liane got shorter-shrift on maternal attention, indulgence, and patience. Volatile, confrontational, and uncompromising, I got things how I wanted them way more than was fair. As a toddler, I made a practice of bulldozing my way through … Read more Two Tickets to Paradise – part i: sfo to lih
Of course Mr. Tangerine Man flat refuses to admit Russia f*cked with our election. Admitting they f*cked with it is tantamount to admitting he didn’t win it. It’s admitting he is where he is because he invited a hostile foreign nation to pull a fast one on the whole US of A. It’s copping to … Read more And Yellow Flows the Donald
A sweet few of you have wondered why I haven’t been blogging lately. I haven’t been blogging because we’re at a point where talking about anything except the spiraling nose-dive of American democracy is pointless, irrelevant, and a disservice to all those already suffering mightily under #45’s reign . . . and because I don’t … Read more Kassandra and Me