Strange sighting and other odd happenings

 

It's been happening for awhile now, but I haven't really thought much about it. You catch a glimpse of something out of the corner of your eye, a shadow that shouldn't be there, voices in the next room when there's no one there. During the summer I would step outside and I would hear voices around the corner of my house so I'd call out and walk over. Of course there was no one there. I'd be out gardening and I'd look up to see a strange shadow, blink and it was gone. The sudden movements out the corner of my eye I always chalked up to the little garden fairies I believe in or the gnomes that hide in my rose bushes. But the other day I was loading the kids up for the tenth time that day and I glanced at my huge fence. Standing there was a young boy around the age of seven, with his hands in his worn jeans just looking at me. I said something to my eldest girl, looking away for a second and when we both looked there was no one there. So now I wonder why all the they are showing up again. I had seen things when I was a teenager but they stopped coming around about the time I started getting my life together. But now they are back and I don't know why.

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1. Go to www.careercruising.com
2. Put in Username: nycareers - Password: landmark
3. Take the 'Career Matchmaker' questions at the upper left corner
4. Post the top 10 (or all 40) results

 

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2.
Costume Designer

3.
Makeup Artist

4.
Special Effects Technician

5.
Art Director

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Jeweler

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SyrenSeer
Sep 17, 2007

Many were locked inside, staring at their computers and/or TV's. And it saddened me to know that so many didn't/couldn't share this experience with me.

It was the smell that first gave me a hint of what was happening. The musty smell of water hitting lose dirt. Of freshly watered soil being turned over.

Then came sound. The front screen door creaked and protested as I pushed my way out bekond by the wonderful smells. And as I stepped out on to the cool, rough sidewalk I heard the first drops hit the pool and ground around me.

My feet seemed to glide over the dry brittle grass. The blades crunching and lightly stabbing the toughened skin of my bare feet. Then I felt it. It was like knowing how a crop of wheat or corn feels after months of drought. The thrist quenching moisture hit my lips as I raised my head to the night sky. I haven't realized my lips were parteched, but the heavenly rain gave them the wetness I didn't know they needed.

I watched as the rain splattered the gray sidewalk and saw the ripples spread out on the pool. The darkened clouds blew noiselessly on, heading away to spread the lifegiving water to some other unsuspecting soul.

I licked my lips and tasted the tears of my Mother Goddess as she cried for me and all others.

And as I sat there taking in this wonderous experience I asked how many others were enjoying this spiritual moment? And how many were not?

I haven't bloged for a couple of weeks and I should have.  I should have shared what was going on.  In my very first blog I stated that I'm a mother of two.  Two girls.  Well I'm actually a mother of three.  The third one is a son.  He's fourteen, almost fifteen and he lives with his father.  I don't usually bring him up much because I don't want/like to answer questions about him or about my life before I got married the second time.

There's nothing wrong with Skyler.  He's a bright, healthy, funloving male.  I just feel guilty about what happened.  I had him when I was twenty, which isn't that old but isn't that young.  But I was still too young.  I left his father when Skyler was six months old and didn't take him with me.  The relationship I got into right after that was an abusive one and I didn't want my son in that.  I made the right descision but I still feel guilty about it.  I shouldn't have moved away from the town they were in.  I don't get to see him as much as I'd like.  There is so much more I need to get off my chest about this subject, but I close down when I start to really think about it and I've got two other children here who need me, so I won't go any deeper today.

I'll stay on the surface of things right now.  So Skyler came to stay with us for two weeks.  I had never realized how much a 14 year old took eat.  I now have no food in my house and my husband does not get paid for awhile.  We are getting peanutbutter and jelly sandwhiches.  But I had a good time with him here.  He is very sweet to the girls.

While he was here I lost my dog.  We couldn't find him for four days.  Finally the pound call us back on Monday and he was there.  Little *@#@ cost $140 to get out.  But I am just so happy he's back.  I've had him for 15 years and I don't know what I'd do without him.

When Skyler had left we adopted a kitten.  He's name is DB Cooper.  I don't know if anyone remembers the famous DB Cooper, who robbed a train or plane (can't remember which, but I think it was a plane) and jumped out somewhere over here in the Northwest.  But they are still looking for him today.  Well that's where we got the name.  Not very magickal or spiritual or witchy like but he's my familiar. :) 

So that's pretty much what I wanted to say today.  Maybe someday when the girls aren't here I can go into my problems and life before this marriage and heal some of the guilt and hurt from the past.  Thanks all for listening, I mean reading. :)

SAGE~ I have this beautiful sage, I want to say bush, but it's not a bush, that has produced wonderful pruple flowers.  I have never harvested any leaves from it before a couple of days ago.  I figured it was time.

 

Sage thrives in almost any well-drained soil with abundant calcuim, preferring a sunny spot, though it also does well in dapple shade.  Take care not to over water them.

Sage occasionally reseeds.  Cuttings are easy, and you can also peg down branches until they root.

Harvest twice each season, just before they bloom and a month or so later.  Cut the new growth on a dry day, bunch the stems and gasten with rubber bands.  Han the bunches to dry in an airy room.  When leaves are brittle, store them in an air-tight container; rub them to a powder by hand or with a mortar and pestle before using.

Culinary uses~ Fresh sage has a far more delicate flavor then dried.  Used with a light hand, it can be delightful in breads, cheese peads, and in pasta, poultry or pork dishes.

Sage also make a pleasant and healthful tea, much favored on the island of Cret.  Fresh Sage Tea, steeped for 5 minutes, is more subtle than the assertive brew made with dried sage.  Lemon and honey enhance the flavor.

Sage Butter

Try on corn on the cob, boiled potatoes or rustic bread.

1 small garlic clove                                            1/4 teaspoon black pepper

4 tablespoon fresh sage, coarsely chopped          1/4 teaspoon grated nutmeg

1/4 pound butter, softened                                 2 teaspoon lemon juice

1/2 teaspoon celery seeds

Start the blender and drop in the garlic clove.  Add the sage and start and stop the blender a few times to chop sage and garlic, pushing down with a rubber spatula,  Add butter, celery seeds, black pepper, nutmeg, and lemon juice and blend well, pushing down with the spatula as necessary.  Transfer to a butter dish and let stand for a least 30 minutes for flavors to ingle.  Can be frozen.

 

Craft and home uses~ Bunches of dried sage make homey kitchen decorations.  They look good in herbal wreaths and everlasting bouquiet.

Like rosemary, sage is beneficial to the hair and scalp.  It helps reduce oilness and controls dandruff.  Hair that is beginning to gray can be darkened with a sage rinse.

 

Medicinal uses~'Cur moriatur homo cui Salvia crescit in horto?' translates from Latin as 'Why should man die whe sage grows in his garden?'  The ancient's high esteem for sage is also reflected in it's name, Salvia, which means 'to save' or 'in good health'.

Sage contains vitamins A, A complex and C, calcium, iron and potassium.  As early as 1600 B.C., sage was used in Crete to clear throat.  The tea is still used a a gargel for sore throats, laryngitis, tonsillitis, and sore in the mouth.  It's potent antibacterial and antiviral actions make it an effective remedy for colds, flu and resperatory tract infections.

Sage tea, also has the ability to inhibit perspiration, helping to revent night sweats.  It take effect two hours after drunk.  The herb is an ingredient in doedrants.  It also decreases production of saliva and breast milk.

Sage tea may not be an elixar of immortality, but in the words of Sir John Hill (1755) sage' maketh the lamp of life, so long as nature lets it burn, burn brightly.

 

Aromatherapy~ The oil is antiseptic, antiviral, antioxidant and antispasmodic, however, in the opinion of Robert Tisserand, Julia Lawless, and other well-known aromatherapists, it is not safe for home use.

CAUTION~ Sage products or sage in therapeutic doses should not be taken during pregnancy.  A moderate amount of sage in the diet for seasoning purpose is not enough to be harmful.