Hello all. As I sit here plotting what I plan to write I'm looking 
out the window at my herb garden now covered in a thick blanket of 
snow. Last night when I went to bed it was so dry and brown except 
for a few plants which hadn't changed color as yet. In a bit I am 
going to go out and make sure the tray with the bird seed has the 
layer of snow scrapped off so that the birds have a bit easier time. 
Winter has definitely arrived for all the calendar says it hasn't. 
Sheila K. Watkins
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The Masks We Wear
By: ShadowWalker

"Almost everyone is wearing a mask
No matter who they are 
Your mother, father, 
Sister, brother, or 
A stranger on the street
They all wear masks 
Some are of friendship
Some are of love
Some are of understanding
Some are of concern
No matter the reason 
It is a mask
There are very few people
That go around without them
They are the ones people hate
The ones that are criticized
The ones that are pushed
That are shoved
That are knocked down
And that are hidden
All because they do not hide
Behind the masks 
That everyone else wear
They speak the truth 
No matter what 
So just remember 
To ask yourself 
When you meet 
Someone new
Is this a mask
I am seeing 
or
Is this the real you"

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Cool Link of the week:
How to make a Ceremonial Magick robe
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This feels correct to me of how the beginning started. I am making no 
claims that it is true.

Creation Story
by Sheila K. Watkins

In the beginning there was a void, a nothingness but it was more 
then a nothingness for it had the potential for everything.
This nothingness divided into two. Male and Female, God and 
Goddess, and between them they birthed the universe.
Throughout this creation, this universe beings came into 
existence. Races living and dying and in their own way and time 
finding the Deities. But the beings couldn't comprehend them totally, 
they could only understand a bit of the picture like the three blind 
men and the elephant, and the part that they understood broke off and 
became a Deity in it's own right. Some could only conceive male, 
Others only female and others both. The Deities were separate when 
they once were whole.
Some parts grew jealous of the other parts, somehow having 
forgotten that they were once whole. Others tried to get back part of 
the whole they were by force and war. In other places knowledge of 
other Deities was forced into secrecy but none of this worked for 
long on the grand scheme of things for the Gods and Goddesses would 
not be totally denied. Whispers of knowledge passed down in myth and 
story and when the time was right followers of these Deities rose 
again.

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