New Years According to the National Calendar!

Greetings and Happy Gregorian New Year

Yes this is the last blog post of the old year. 2011 has been a bumpy road just like 2010, with less bumps though. 2010 I had a major breakup and it left me with very bad thoughts. Lets just say I was internally cursing him. In 2011 was less hell, I did however find a job for three months before being layed off because of an unbalanced drawer. Even though that happen I did work with a few awesome people and they really seem to know what the hell they were doing and have very interesting people come in the store. Like this one guy, I believe he said he is from the Bahamas. He would always come in the store and ask if I need a better job. I would always say yes and then he would "promise" me a job where he worked, which was at a construction company. However of course that never happen.

It has been a slow year, up until about three, four months ago when I started college again, I'm going for my Early Childhood Education degree. I'm attending Columbia Greene Community College, where this semester where I took two education course a history course and a sign language course which I did well in. It seems now I am starting to get my act together. I really don't think that when you get out of high school you are really ready for the real world. As we discussed in my Education 101 course it seems that today's teens haven't really been schooled in the necessary skills to survive in college, from writing skills to time management skills. I blame the required standardized tests that the teachers prepare us for rather then working on real social problems. Then again that's my opinion.

One thing I realized this year alone is that I really need to stop having 40 year old men try to flirt with me. Seriously! I don't know how many times I had these single lonely middle age men try to hit on me. No offense to my ex but I think I'm over men who are like 15 years older than me. Yes they are more experienced but still I think it's a little weird considering that I'm 26, who looks younger than she really is. Can someone please put a leash on the older men for me and what is left of my sanity, please?

No matter how I look at it It has been a year where I really haven't been doing much in the way of magical practice. I feel like I have been having some magical down time this year. It seems I have hit a brick wall and I really need to knock it down some more. It just seems that I have been out of touch with myself and my gods. I hope for next year though that I can get back into my practices and magical studies.

I hope that everyone had a better year that I did. I hope to be posting a bit more next year. I am so sorry about my long haituses.


Bright and Dark Blessings
Candace

Has it been since September. I think so!

Greetings

Yeah yeah yeah I know this has been an over due blog post. I swear I haven't been ignoring this blog, it's just a tad bit crazy in the land of the Town Witch. I started school just before my huge hiatus and it was just went to crazy town. Hey at lease I can say that I know enough sign language to get through a simple conversation. I will be starting my second semester around the beginning of January so don't expect me to try to blog much during that time. 3 months I know but I did put most of my energy into studying and trying to pass. Hey you know at lease I'm trying to get my degree.

Oh and I swear I think I attract 40 year old men because there was a guy in my Latin American History class that may have the hots for me and I really don't want to go down the road of strange 40+ year old men again. Sorry, Lance! However I totally nailed my History 127 final with and A and on top of that in the same class A+ on my Presentation on Mining in Chile and it's affects on the environment and globalization. SCORE!

Oh and in the time of all of this I found a new pagan social site called Pagan-Place.com. Go there and sign up every one there is really nice and very helpful. Unlike Paganspace, which was a nice site at first, but turned into a town for the insane over time. Look for me I try to update daily, screen name is Candace (duh).

I'll still be a kick in the pants type of gal in my blog posts.

Bright Blessings
Candace (Your still sane but a tad bit crazy witch)

Facebook Failed So Much That I Blogged About It.

I am upset with the new changes with Facebook that I have sworn not to use it as much as I use to. What really set me off was the side bar with every one's updates. Do I really need to know who commented on who's status. I really don't care who likes what or who is playing what game. I have had it! Now due to my friends who don't want to make a change to another social media that doesn't stalk you every second, I have to remain on it to see how my friends are doing and to know what is going on with the media today. I have a few groups and pages that I subscribe to for information about the world, different views. I am how ever diligently trying to move over to Disporia with the hopes that someone would give me an invite, right now I am on G+ and Twitter. Twitter I don't mind, actually I love the fact that people can follow me and have a conversation with 140 words or less. (I wish that was longer though! Twitlonger!). Facebook with it's updates every couple of month has been adding up with sheer frustration and the fact that I now can't freaking have a live feed anymore, how the hell can I change that setting!?!? The Crackbook is failing after the second or third updates and I have put up with it this long. It really makes you want to go back to Myspace, yet that has gotten even horrible. I wish there was a social media outlet that makes a update that improves it's performance, instead of having it crash and burn. FACEBOOK YOU FAIL!

Seriously though if you want to follow me on Twitter it's right there on the side of the page --------->

Or look me up on G+ or Crackbook.

I am from the Wild Earth.

This is for a homework assignment in my Education in Diverse Populations class. The assignment was to create a "I am from" poem that gave the teacher a sense of where I am from. Of course I had to include some Pagan elements into it because of my beliefs. I hope the teacher notices it. I hope you will enjoy it! If I had a mistake in something or could add something else please tell me, this is for a grade!

I am from the Wild Earth

I am from the wild earth
a child filled with love.
I am the wander in the wood.

I am from cookies I bake with the eldest female,
The place where she made jams in the summer.

I am from this valley, created from the beautiful Hudson waters.
I am from precious stones that I collect,
and the jewelry that I create.

I am from the old gods that roam the land,
watching, listening, observing and planning.
I am from science fiction, fantasy and role playing.

I am from winters death, springs renewal,
summers beauty and falls disappearance.

I am from the bonfires at Halloween,
from the faces on the pumpkins
and children dressing up scaring their peers.

I am from the red, the yellow, the purple, the green and the blue
flowers from the garden that pop up every year.

I am from the emotional waters
the fires of passion,
the stability of the earth and
the beauty of the wind.

I am from magic
mystery,
mythology,
science and
history.

I am the wild earth, beautiful, created, loving and inspired.

A Personal 9/11 Story!

Where were you when the twin towers were hit people would ask on this day. I would always tell then I was in a class that I dislike and would always dislike for eternity. I was in math class, being taught math that I tried to make some sense. Sense that really made me pull my hair out. I remember after class that I heard from a fellow student that the Twin Towers got hit and fell. I really didn't believe them at first because when I was in high school I was always a tiny bit gullible and shy so I have written it off as a joke. Me shy? It's hard to believe. As I found out that more people were talking about it. I suddenly realize it did happen. I really did happen My government teacher turned on the TV as we went into my next class and what beheld me was a disaster, a sight of sheer horror as we see American Airlines Flight 11 and United flight 175 smash into both towers then towers falling and seeing people falling out of the buildings trying to escape . I was almost in tears that day! I couldn't believe that it was happen. I was always emotional but this hit hard. We got out of school around early that day. When I got home I saw what happen while I was on the bus. The Pentagon being hit by American Airlines Flight 77. Later I got word that United Flight 93 got hijack just over Ohio and the plain turned around and was headed towards the white house until it crashed near Shanksville Pennsylvania. My eyes were stuck on the TV for further developments for the rest of the day. Considering I did live about 100 miles from the first attacks of the day. For a brief moment you can see that people got out of their homes and went to their neighbors and asked if they were okay. This tragic event brought us together for a day then when reports came in that the attacks were part of the Taliban, which is a Muslim fundamentalist group, Islamophobia stuck the nation. I got the fear because of what happen. I also know that there were Muslims in those towers and Muslims that were on those planes, ones that didn't hijack four planes and try to strike fear in our hearts. There were also people of other faiths that died and It did bring us together for a brief moment but that moment was short lived when the hatred crept in. The very next day when I went to work I was told that the workers who were looking for supplies to help with their search and rescue. The store that I worked at supplied most of what they needed and I had a lot of people come in and support those workers and donated their purchases to those who were endlessly trying to rescue people from the wreckage. Things like filter masks and flashlights were really needed and I've never seen people donate things to places like this before. It was really touching!

9/11 will aways be a tragic day for the nation but I did bring people together and that is what I remember the most.

I am (An Ode to The Goddess)

I am (An Ode to The Goddess)

I am the one that brought you into this life
I am the one that has the gift of sight
I am the one that creates a new
I am the one that can be a shrew
I am the one that is the wise
I am the one that brings the night
I am the one that feels the pain
I am the one that has no shame
I am the one that feels no remorse
For when those who hurt the most

I am the one who brings the rain
I am the one that gives life to the grain
I am the one that stirs the cauldron
I am the one that destroys out of bordom
I am the hand that feeds your body
I am the one that can be a tad bit naughty

I am a drop of dew on the leaves
I am a face between the trees
I am a light in the dark
I am the beautiful lark.
I am the face of the moon
I am the hurricane that can come too soon

I am the one in the sky
I am the one that can make your mind fly
I have a triple me
I make you bend on one knee
I am the one of justice and strength
I am the one you can give thanks.

I am the seer of all
Don't wander very far
Because I am the one you can call
Mother of all.

Water

Maybe it was the peace of the Atlantic Ocean surrounding the boat, but I've noticed this week that I have never been so aware of myself. They say that when you connect with a body of water your energy just calms to a point where you can mediate. Now I could not do it much because my grandmother was rooming with me and she is like me a bit of a recluse and came back and read in the room, but when she was out with the others I had the opportunity to actually sit down and meditate on the ocean. As I know from the past water can be a powerful substance, from creating hills and valleys to destroying towns and cities. In a way it has very powerful energy to it. Recently about four years ago while still searching, and still am, through the craft I found that I connect with water quite well. I can understand it's force and it's will to create and it's need to destroy. For a good time I have believed that everything has a duality, what is up there must be a down, where there is a day there is a night, ETC. For this I believe that the same for fire, earth and air water has it's duality, but duality doesn't mean just a good and just a bad. No duality to me means that what one must be created another must be destroyed. It's more a middle ground than anything.

For billions of years water has created hills and valleys and gave us a reason to create civilizations by it's structures. If you have studied history you find that the first towns and the first civilzations are along river ways and oceans. Why is this? Well it's simple when we see settlement in watery areas we see that people start to develop an agriculture society so water is needed to grow those crops to feed their tribe/city/village. Water is also a means of transportation. When we build societies in these areas we also make way for other people to explore and expand their land. We also need a means to transport goods and rivers and oceans are a great way of transportation. Boats were the first means of alternative travel for a long time, from small canoes to large sailing ships. Water is a primary example a reason why nomadic tribes settled down thousands of years ago along with the discovery of farming and domestication.

Along with it's creation of cities and carving out areas know to us, water is also a reason why we see a bit if destruction. From rain's intensive power to knock out all communication with flooding to killing thousands with brutal tidal waves. When water gets out of hand is when earth creates an angry shock that gives water it's big power to destroy cities, with the example of the major tidal wave that hit Japan that followed a massive earthquakes, it was powered by all the quake's effects. Even when we have siesmec activity off land we still see great waves hit shores with great intensity. The tidal wave that hit Japan was the largest that the country has seen in a long time, knocking out power lines and take houses with it. THAT is the power of mother earth's waters! Still it's sad to see people loose their homes, I am amazed how quickly everything has it's domono effect when water is involved. Just recently towns along the Mississippi river was flooded, due to a slow moving storm. Rain in areas have made the Mississippi overflow into peoples' yards and engulfing towns in it's flood waters leaving many homeless in the process. Even though people had warning some wanted to stay. Water is a very valuable resource and it's powerful effect is so great that one drop can just destroy or create. It is also very unpredictable to see if the weather calls for light rain to water your crops or a heavy slow moving storms that destroy entire towns with it's massive effect. About ten percent of the worlds water is drinkable and all of it we rely on it for purposes we see fit and it is carried me to the bahamas and back. Everywhere this resource is very valuable for our survival.