Project for Awesome is a charitable initiative to "decrease world suck." Online content providers upload videos speaking about their favourite charities and non-profits, then people vote on the videos that represent the projects that they want P4A to support. So I made a video for National Novel Writing Month! If you want to vote for my video you can do so HERE; if you want to support NaNoWriMo and vote for all their videos at Project for Awesome you can do so HERE; and if you want to donate to P4A or submit a video you can do so HERE. Please support these great charities! You can only vote or donate this weekend, so please don't delay if you're going to! Thanks.
49 Degrees: Canadian Pagan Perspectives
Canadian Paganism has a style all its own. Have a look at events, issues, celebrations, people, trends and events north of the border from the eyes of a Canadian Wiccan and Witch.
Sable Aradia
Sable Aradia (Diane Morrison) has been a traditional witch most of her life, and she is a licensed Wiccan minister and a Third Degree initiate in the Star Sapphire and Pagans for Peace traditions. Author of "The Witch's Eight Paths of Power" (Red Wheel/Weiser 2014) and contributor to "Pagan Consent Culture" and "The Pagan Leadership Anthology," she also writes "Between the Shadows" at Patheos' Pagan channel and contributes to Gods & Radicals. Sable is just breaking out as a speculative fiction writer under her legal name, and a new serial, the Wyrd West Chronicles, will be released on the Spring Equinox this year. Like most writers, she does a lot of other things to help pay the bills, including music, Etsy crafts, and working part time at a bookstore. She lives in Vernon, BC, Canada with her two life partners and her furbabies in a cabin on the edge of the woods.
My first book signing! Photo by Chiri Peterson. Used by permission.
Updated from Between the Shadows, November 22, 2014:
...http://wildhunt.org/2015/11/pagan-author-pledges-to-protect-water-from-nestle.html
Source: Dodie Graham McKay @ The Wild Hunt
On November 11 this year, I reposted last year’s article that I was inspired to write after witnessing the gradual evolution of a Canadian cultural ritual around Remembrance Day (Veteran’s Day, Armistice Day) that took place at my local cenotaph. As you might expect, this year I took my lunch break early, since I was working at the bookstore, and when my men came to fetch me I went over to the cenotaph again, shoveling a sandwich in my face so that I would be free for the ceremony.
There had to be twice the number of people who were there than last year. I recognized the lovable dog I’d patted and the cute little girl in the pink jacket I’d smiled at; who was now a little taller. This time the cenotaph gate was still locked, but there was a scuffed poppy wreath already laid in front of it. My friends and coveners, who were there last year, came back as well, everyone with a poppy and a look of determination. I scanned the crowd and the gate for the elderly veteran whose words had so moved me last year; but he wasn’t there. Then Jamie nudged me and pointed. “Looks like the people might force them to bring it back to the cenotaph,” he said. “Check it out; we have cops and everything.”
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Reposted from Between the Shadows, November 12, 2014:
Remembrance Day is how Canadians acknowledge November 11th. In the US it is Veterans Day. These observances evolved out of Armistice Day, which continues to be observed in some countries (or simultaneously.) There are commonalities but the focus is different. Our identity of ourselves as a nation came from fighting together in World War I. At that time, Canada was still a British colony, and most of us thought of ourselves as British (or French, under British occupation). We became Canadians together at Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele.
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It's Election Day in Canada! I awoke galvanized! This election is different from any that I can remember in my lifetime. I feel that the stakes have never been so high. Really, it's about Canada's heart and soul.
For the past ten years, the Conservative Party has been in power. They were elected on their campaign of "accountability" in the wake of the Liberal Party sponsorship scandal. Since then, for the past several elections most of the country has been trying to remove them because they've dragged us through one scandal after another, one unconstitutional law after another, one restriction to our freedom after another. I have no words for how much I loathe them, and I have lots of reasons. The reason why Canada has not succeeded in removing them is the odd way in which our electoral process works.
...Sorry about the lack of posts this month! I've been working a lot of extra hours at my day job and then I was busy with Sabbat celebrations. In that spirit, I thought I would share a couple of Autumn Equinox related recipes from my personal formulary.
Apothecary by Sable Aradia. Copyright (c) 2015. All rights reserved.
