stuck

You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment and now you can't get out of it
Don't say that later will be better now you're stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it..

we're different now than when we started..

but am i ready to wake up
there in the exodus
of the beautiful side of somewhere?

it's been more than a year since i last had this theme..

how coincidental it is to now be waking up to this song..

coincidental?

or is it a sign?

The Empress

You are The Empress

Beauty, happiness, pleasure, success, luxury, dissipation.

The Empress is associated with Venus, the feminine planet, so it represents, beauty, charm, pleasure, luxury, and delight. You may be good at home decorating, art or anything to do with making things beautiful.

The Empress is a creator, be it creation of life, of romance, of art or business. While the Magician is the primal spark, the idea made real, and the High Priestess is the one who gives the idea a form, the Empress is the womb where it gestates and grows till it is ready to be born. This is why her symbol is Venus, goddess of beautiful things as well as love. Even so, the Empress is more Demeter, goddess of abundance, then sensual Venus. She is the giver of Earthly gifts, yet at the same time, she can, in anger withhold, as Demeter did when her daughter, Persephone, was kidnapped. In fury and grief, she kept the Earth barren till her child was returned to her.

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photo of the week: dusk

Dreams in the dusk,
Only dreams closing the day
And with the day's close going back
To the gray things, the dark things,
The far, deep things of dreamland.

darkness..

darkness all around..

too tired to fight..

it's sucking in everyone..

must fight..

must have coup..

photo of the week: winter

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

sparkly brightings..

i love the darkings in trickster's queen.. they're these small, blob-like creatures that can form different shapes.. what i like about them was their lines..

"Dragons are boring," announced a darking with a chunk of clear quartz at its center. "Dragons study and peer and eat and sleep."

"And talk," Trick added. "For days and days and days."

A number of tiny heads nodded agreement and chorused, "Boring."

~ * ~ * ~

"I stay with you," Trick squeaked. "They tell me, I tell you. Sometimes show." Spreading itself thin, it showed Aly the view of the garden where they now stood.

"Not boring," added one who had blue ribbon inside itself.

"Fun," chorused the others. "Funfunfun."

so anyway, maj, knowing the impact the darkings had on me, brought these back for us from hongkong:


they're changeable toys!
"Traditional Chinese toy .More lively and interesting,but loss sticky than plasticine. Never harden. While playing, make you dexterous in action, quickwitted and also imaginative."

no typo there.. that's character-by-character from the description in the box.. :p

so we applied being dexterous and imaginative:


since they are brightly colored, we are calling them brightings.. :)