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Protection

Our very nice, conservation-minded Landlord has it in his head that there are too many jackdaws around this year and they're killing the songbirds. They're not. Anyway, he wants to make a pre-emptive strike and shoot the jackdaws.

Jj3

my work station

We have jackdaws living in our chimney stack or, as Evie calls it, our jimley. They are The Jimley Jackdaws (and if I ever change my name by deed poll again I'm going to be Jo Jimley-Jackdaw because we all know that would be awesome). I love our jackdaws and do not want their death or the deaths of their subsequently starving chicks literally hanging over our heads.

Jj2 So I thought I should put some protective stuff together for the JJs and to that end, I made a quick totem for them. A very small one. And now it's sitting on the mantlepiece in the kitchen, where the JJs can be heard, waiting for me to add some penwork.

I quite like it.

(Young jackdaws have pale blue eyes.)

Jj4
 
 

May 07, 2011 in animal medicine, Dear Universe, Garden, Life, Love, Magic, Nature, Spirit, Symbols, Wild | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)

Practical magic

Thank you all for your comments and emails about Casey - they meant a lot. I know many of you have been where I was last Friday and the rest of you are an empathetic, lovely bunch so I was in safe hands.

I've been doing a lot of thinking about what gets us through the bad days. Online and nonline (just made that up. When you see it all over the place by next week...it started here m'kay?) friends play a huge part, that's for sure.  And all my 'funny little ways' that I've - it suddenly became crystal clear - rarely taken seriously, actually do lift me upwards and onwards.

The little steps, the moments of lovely, the act of creating something however small, temporary or even imagined...they really do work. The rituals I've used to work with my own beliefs and understanding of life...they mean something. Something real. The healing energy? It actually heals.

(The day of Casey's death, Evie said to me,"Mum? What you need is a fire. Or even a candle. And you get really close and you tell it all the things you want to say to Casey okay? It really works." Now, a) lighting a candle is something I would do anyway for a travelling spirit and b) WHAT??? Where the heck..? Talk about My Little Shaman. Chip off the adoptive block or what? I'm so proud.)

I think I'm going to focus more on these things here. The things that help me, heal me and move me through the hard places. I'm not going to say 'dark places' because dark is a good place to be sometimes. Powerful.

Anyway...I want to put those things here. Along with random chicken posts of course. Chicken medicine is some gooood shit. Especially from random chickens.

Nin

Random Ninny does her best Diana Ross.

"You Can't Hurry l'Oeuf"

 

Apr 08, 2011 in animal medicine, Blogging, Casey Cat, Chickens, Evie, Life, Magic, Spirit, Wild | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)

Finding magic

I'm finding so much inspiration online. Thanks to lovely links posted by friends and of course, Pinterest, I'm adding fresh faces to my Google Reader and so enjoying what they share.

Here are just four:

Jennlui

The extraordinarily creative Jennlui at A Trinket Treasury.

 

RF

Margaret's beautiful creations at Resurrection Fern.

 

Spirit Cloth

Jude makes true magic at Spirit Cloth. I am mesmerised in the very best way.

 

Tiny Happy

Everything Melissa touches turns lovely at Tiny Happy.

 

Have you found any new places to enjoy lately?

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Feb 26, 2011 in Art, Design, Finds, Magic | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

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