I don't have a whole lot today except that I had a good therapy session, my friend, Caroline, came into to town and we had lunch together, which was amazeballs, and she got me thinking seriously about going back to school.

UPDATED TO ADD: I had a LOT today. I just didn't know it until I started typing, which is why a bloggers default position should always be butt in chair, hands on keyboard, trust that you've got something to say and start saying it.

I was put in the position of having to assert my community guidelines today: we don't do spiritual or religious intolerance - like, at all - and I'm tired of making allowances for people who make snide remarks about other people's choices in what is, essentially, my living-room. It felt good to stand up (in a non-mean but firm way) for what I believe in. Want to know what I believe in? KINDNESS. I believe in letting you be you and trusting that I can be me. I believe in each individual's right to choose the right path for them. People who get all judgemental and holier-than-thou (be they of WHATEVER religious stripe) just don't do very well in my spaces. They make me feel squick, and then I lose interest in looking at what they create. I prefer to expend my energy where it is wanted, and if I, as a hippy dippy pagan, am considered evil or wrong, then hey. My energy isn't wanted! It's better spent elsewhere.

Why people join groups that are obviously run by queer-friendly, pagan woo woo people and then crap on queers and/or pagan woo woo stuff is beyond me. I don't join Christian run groups and crap all over Christianity, right?

Anyway...bigots of any kind need not apply to be any of my classes, spaces, communities, etc. I just have zero tolerance for bigotry.

/rant. :)

I'm going to a Pan Tribute tomorrow and I get to see my lovely Allegonda, who has this coat for sale - a coat that will most certainly be mine if it fits.

Is my Allegonda not just SO INCREDIBLY TALENTED???

Happy Swoon.

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In other news, I am seriously thinking about going back to school to complete my grade 12 and go from there. I don't know what I want to do with my life besides teach art journaling, but I feel pretty certain that if I have a 'fall-back position' I will feel a whole heck of a lot less insecure about my future. Anything I can do right now that helps me feel more secure/autonomous/independent is the right thing to do.

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An excerpt from my blog was published in The Temple Bell, and I'm pretty stoked about it.

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For those who asked, this is my home shrine:

And for others who asked, this is me with my pretty nose bling:

And that's me, today.

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