Quick! It's the new Moon! Anyone have a theme idea for The Glitterati Society?! xoxo http://www.faeriedark.com/tgs !!

I posted a couple of update entries over at CoV: State of Affairs & Things To Come. :) ♥

The other week, at the "Love and Other Delusions" show, I met a woman from out west. I noticed her walk in and introduced myself when I saw her talking with a friend of mine after the show. She invited Roommate X and I for drinks with her, one of the performers and the performer's friend. Roommate X bowed out and I went alone. I was so nervous I drank half my drink before finding them. In between conversations about the performer's career, our various jobs, astrology, and hockey - our knees knocked. I took a big sip of my remaining drink. She asked to kiss me. Then she asked me home. ♥

And later on, she asked me to go camping in the MOUNTAINS. I just about died. She was driving back home in a few days and wanted company. I had never seen the mountains before, except for afar at the airport in Trinidad. We spent about four days in total together, one in Winnipeg talking, taking her dog to the park, listening to Indian chanting and Tracy Chapman - who is a great artist, and more talking, three driving and camping. I learned how to put up a tent, that I'm destined to find older Taurean dames deliciously dangereux, and that generosity of love and spirit is a beautiful thing in a human being. She was so lovely.

I ended up spending a day and a half in Banff by myself, which was pretty fun. I stayed in a hostel for the first time. My roommate worked for as a juvenile corrections officer in an other country, which was funny since my first court date was swiftly approaching. :P I spent a gorgeous afternoon in a beautiful garden near the edge of town, reading a book she had given me. It was called "The Fifth Sacred Thing" and it was written by Starhawk. I've never read any of Starhawk's writing before, but I loved this book. I read it a second time on the 22-hour bus ride back to Winnipeg.

It's about San Francisco, known as the City or the North, in the year 2048 where it has become a place where no one hungers, no one thirsts, no one lacks a home or companionship, and everyone acknowledges the four sacred things: fire, water, earth, and air - no matter their religion. Madrone is a healer in the City and ends up taking a journey to the South, down to Angel City where access to food and water is dependant on obeying the Four Purities, women can no longer work, and speaking a language other than english is considered deadly. Bird, a musician who grew up in the North, one day wakes up in a southern jail after been missing for ten years. He escapes and makes his way home to the city where water flows through the streets and tries to heal from his broken hands and heart. On his way, he learns that military armies of the South are preparing to invade the City, sparking the question can a non-violent society stand against the anger and violence of a culture that seeks to dominate? What is stronger... violence or the fifth sacred thing - spirit.

Through the book, Starhawk shows a utopian vision of how we can...and a likely alternative. The book speaks to everything I worry about and question when I look at the world and my own choices. Which direction are we heading: the enslavement of all or the freedom of all? The lack or the abundance? What kind of choices are we making?

This trip was so fulfilling in so many ways. It was the perfect way to close my summer. I've felt more active every day, more able to give, more able to show love, stronger. We're entering into the harvest and I feel that season of transition coming, shaking things up.

Roommate Y recently brought home his cat Tippy from the cabin. Tippy is an older female with an adorable scratchy meow, bow legs, and short tip of a tail.

We also have Pandora, who is my baby, a black longhaired female who probably is about 2-3 years old. Pan is very social and sweet, sometimes sketchy with a very penetrating meow when she wants something.

Unfortunately, the introduction isn't going well. Pan and Tippy are not taking to each other. Roommate Y tells me that Tippy has always been pretty unfriendly towards other cats. When she sees Pan, Tippy starts hissing and yeowling. Pan makes a small, sound in her throat - the same sound she makes when I catch her doing something she's not supposed to. I guess it's a submissive noise. Tippy lived upstairs and Pan lived downstairs for a week or two, which sucked because my room is on the top floor and Pan's definitely been coming into my room way less.

I've heard that introducing two female cats to each other can be one of the hardest pairings and it really has only been a few weeks, but the constant little encounters are really starting to stress me out and give me headaches. :(

Dear Fur Babies, please sort out your differences so I can write in peace.

It's a ridiculously humid August night and sleep is being pretty elusive.

Today, I spent some time at Cosmic Tools, helping Sharon and Joe. Joe was the teacher who gave me my reiki attunment a few months back, and since then has become a very good friend. His crystal shop just moved locations from a building of healers to a shared space with a glass blower in a treny part of town. The new space is beautiful and full of inspiration. I took home an azurite from my lovely roommate who has been kind of down recently. It's rough, full of dark blue and ocre swirls with a dusting of dark glitter across it.

After the shop, I biked back to West Broadway where I was just in time to hang out at Art City and join their screen printing class. I cut out stencils of pretty words and unicorns and made prints in gold, pink, blue, and silver. The studio was full of people of all ages, laughing and painting and tickling each other with feathers (!!!) xoxo We ate apple and banana pancakes, blueberry muffins, and celery sticks with a cheese and veggie puree for snack.

Yesterday morning I biked through the Forks and down the river on my way home. Every couple of feet there was a cluster of little ducks preening and generally being ridiculously cute. I hummed and sped through trees and flowers and too close to the water.

I look in the mirror and I'm stunned by how my life is coming together. There is beauty, there is laughter, there is art, and love, and creativity, and hope. Sometimes I feel like my heart is breaking. Sometimes I feel like it will burst, overflowing with all the gifts I've been given. Sometimes I feel like I'm a walking dream, leaving no footsteps on the soil. Sometimes I feel like creature in girl form, lightning and fire dancing underneath my skin.

I feel like a child. When will I grow up? Will I be beautiful?

Flora: What kind of companion are you? @ Crownofviolets.com! xoxo

Faerie Dark: A worldbuilding experiment and Creatures of the Night: Lumière. I've also started a wiki for my fictional universe at Faeriedark.com. Enjoy!

Divine Oh Nine and the Unexpected Challenge @ Crownofviolets.com.

Elements of Enchantment: Flora @ Crownofviolets.com. ♥

Shaking the Tree @ Crownofviolets.com. xoxo!

Stolen from mermaiden

♥ - Describe me in one word... just one single word.
♥ - Leave your word in a comment before looking at what words others have used.
♥ - Then post this meme, if you wish.

Beautiful Living @ Crownofviolets.com! ♥

Chère Juliette: On Becoming a Companion, How To Get Food & Desire @ Crownofviolets.com ♥

The magic moldy cabbage sprouts after putting it on top of a bucket of dirt.

YAY! I was approved to start up Dr. Sketchy's in Winnipeg! ♥ :D

Edit: Also! Refinement and the Pleasure of Dance @ Crownofviolets.com

Communicating with Companions @ Crownofviolets.com!

We have been having truly gorgeous weather all week. Misty, wet, soft snow like falling diamonds in the glow of street lights. Winter delight. ♥

Kiki, our ringneck hyena turtle dove loves the sun.

Receptive and Embracing @ Crownofviolets.com! :D ♥