Bitchin from the Broom Closet

Eve of Samhain

2011-10-30T16:14:00.000-07:00

It is the Eve, of our Biggest Holiday of the year. Can you feel the excitement? Do you have children you are taking trick-or-treating, either tonite, or tomorrow night? Are your pumpkin's carved, decorations out, candy bowls full?

Do you have your trick bags packed and ready, for unsuspecting souls; who get tricked, if they don't treat? Or that ornery neighbor you've been waiting all year to torment?

Does anyone still do tricks at Halloween anymore? Or are those shannigans a thing of the past? Does anyone go tp-ing? Window soaping? corning? That's what we did, when I was a kid. I think now, most people would call the police, and the children, or the children's parents, would probably get a ticket...maybe go to jail? Is that assumed as vandalizing now a days? What was once considered good clean fun, albeit, annoying...to some...is another bygone thing of the past. I miss it. While I alway's found pumpkin smashing rather harsh. I remember many a morning's waking up to find my pumpkins, that I adored...smashed to smithering...crying over them. *sigh* But the other stuff....really? what was the harm in that? No one got hurt, toilet paper is biodegradeable, if rather expensive these days...lol But soap is still cheap!

Last year, Halloween fell on a Sunday...the big ta-do with that, was how horrible it was to trick-or-treat or celebrate the devil, on a holy day. So instead, many neighborhoods only allowed the children to trick-or-treat on Friday and Saturday night. This year, Halloween fall's on a monday...those same neighborhoods are allowing the children to trick-or-treat saturday night, sunday night, and Monday Night...lmao....ohh, sometimes the hypocrisy of the human race just astounds me.

Have a Blessed All Hallow's Eve....if you wake up in the morning, to find toilet paper streaming from your tree's and bush's....just smile, and remember the good ol' days...and May you Be Blessed with a visit from Beyond this year. )0(

Feelin Bitchy

2011-10-29T17:58:00.000-07:00

I have been in a horrid mood for the past few days....according to my husband, longer than that ;-) He says 5 days, I say...not that long...but perhaps. I don't know if it's just that time of the month to feel blah...or if it's the nostalgia of yesterday's passing.

As my husband and I sat at our bar last night having a beer, and listening to Willie Nelson, and Jim Reeves on the ancient record player...my husband said to me, that it was almost like he could feel my mother's presence. I laughed, and said, yes....well it has been 21 years. Even though he never got to meet her in person, she has always been more than willing to let him know when she is around.

I guess I forgot to mention that my husband is a junk freak. So yes, we have an old record player, that actually works, and he even acquired records to go with it. Talk about nostalgia...even though most of the records are from my grandmother's era, instead of my mother's. LOL {We do have cd and dvd players...we're not just lost in time or anything.}

Listening to the JFK memorial record, gave us chills. A time, on the horizon of America, when we had a lot going for us. Some of the headlines of today....all I can do is shake my head. All the war's we've fought....seem pointless on the new horizon of today.

Blessed Samhain Weekend. Let us not forget those who have gone before us. Remember those, who without them, we would not, could not be here today. )0(

Peeking out

2011-10-25T10:09:00.000-07:00

Ahhh, I am attempting to peek out from the safety of my Broom Closet. With Samhain fast approaching the season is stirring in my blood. I feel the need to find a voice...any voice, but preferably my own. October has flown by for me. I have felt the thinning of the veil this year, with extra force. Friday will mark the 21 year anniversary of my Mother's passing. I am hoping for a dumb supper, but if nothing else that time will allow, at least an acknowledgement.

It has been a strange month. A lot of thing's going bump in the night. Not just for me and my family, but for other's as well, as I've listened, and stored away those *A-ha* thoughts, to myself.

I have been having strange day dream's, of other-worldly universes, where self, meets self. But in that other world...she has the twin daughter to my son, whom I lost when I was pregnant. Of course, she lost the son...I got to keep him. But she got to keep my mother, who also follow's the witch's path...but alas in that parallel of universes...witch's still get persecuted, ridiculed, and often times maimed, impriosoned or killed, if they are found out. So naturally I want to *save* that mother, and keep my daughter...It goes on and on, and in circles...

I have enjoyed watching the changing of the seasons this year. We have had a fairly nice autumn. Which I have learned to enjoy with bittersweet nostalgia.

So, Merry Meet, to those, I've yet to come across. Blessings on Samhain as the veil thins, may your ancestor's bless you this year and throughout the new coming year ahead.

Namaste
from my broom closet, to yours. )0(