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If you are a proponent of horse slaughter, have ever eaten horse meat, take Premarin (unless you don't know it kills horses...well it does so Make the Switch!) or support the slaughtering of horses in any way, don't bother friending me.

I am a curmudgeon, easily pissed off by those who label eclectic practices "Celtic," "Gaelic," "Norse" or any cultural label that they are not and I feel that it's up to those in the cultures to syncretize or not...so historical syncretisms are great but don't be telling me about your Gaulish-Aztec tradition, mkay? I also swear a lot, supposedly LJ wants warnings about that sort of thing. Now they have that filter thing so fuck it***

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Self Pity
DH Lawrence
I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself.

I'm a polytheist focused on Scottish Highland and Hebride culture, ban-fhiannaidh, Hillbilly survivalist, barbarian, writer, boss mare and all around raging, rabid, opinionated, savage alpha bitch. Any questions?

I am not the Celtic Reconstructionist you are looking for. In fact, by the current definition, I'm certainly not one at all. I also do not endorse any book about it you might see my name on or in and I certainly do not endorse anyone else whose names I might be linked to due to them. Warning: never, ever, collaborate. You're an idiot if you do.

Don't expect a lot of supa speshul mystical posts here. While I do ritual and ecstatic work, I don't discuss it a whole lot, tends to lend to people saying they worked with you and are part of your path when they aren't. This doesn't mean that I don't discuss aspects of my path and spirituality, just that I tend to talk more about the practical side of the warrior path than the mystical. So, yeah, when I talk about time with my horses, dogs, in the woods (even at work), working out and all sorts of "other" stuff, I'm actually also talking about my spirituality. Because everything ties in. If you think it doesn't, you're a fucking hobbiest.

I really sort of do make my living as a ban-fhiannaidh, as well as professional fire-tender in the winter. ~;) In modern terms this is called nightwatch at a wilderness youth camp. Before that I was a reporter and photographer for a local paper, before that various other things...including my first career as a photojournalist long, long ago at a larger paper. My various interests, well, I guess you can see from my interest list and from the sites and communities here and elsewhere that I run.

My mate, mythos999,I have been taking steps into homesteading, but work does get in the way of doing this as far as we would like. We have a Greyhound, (the fourth, the first three are much missed), an Aussie/Border Collie cross learning to be a farm dog and, until recently, an elderly Arabian horse who made an amazing recovery from his past abuse. We have now welcomed a new PMU filly into our lives in October 2007. We raise chickens, preferring Dorkings but currently we have mostly a motley crew of hybrids from a local farmer. We recently got two goat kids which will probably just be pets, but one is a doe so we have options. We live in some of the most beautiful woods in the world in northern New Hampshire.

As well as my personal site (which is getting overhauled), which includes some of my writing, linked above, I do a Physical Feminism blog called Championing Ourselves. I also maintain The Sarah Connor Charm School site and the the SCCS ning network. I run a Sacred Horse mailing list for Pagan horse enthusiasts as well. I can occasionally be found running around MySpace, where I am mostly involved in horse related politics. My computer does not seem to get along with Tribe.net or Facebook.

I founded and run the following LiveJournal communities:
sacredhorse for Pagans involved with horses and/or worship equine Deities
horselistening for Natural Horsemanship, not Pagan specific
womenofstrength for fierce, strong women, women only, not Pagan specific
hooded_crow for Outlaw Warrior Poets and other mad wild mystics. This is a semi-private group and you MUST contact me to join unless you are already on my flist.

I also, uh, co-maintain, uh, yeah, that's it, sccharmschool for those Terminator 2 fans who think that muscle and suvivivalist savvy DO matter. But, really, even if you join the community you want to join actual network where we'll be discussing the upcoming reunion and paintball tournament.

Want to buy me stuff? Well, probably not, even though these would help me with some projects I'm working on, but this is the wishlist anyway.



Mum - Dad
1918-2006 / 1920-2008


Saoradh
"Maltese Sartez"
Born:April 29, 1974-rescued:April 29, 2001-died:March 18, 2007


Greys Irony
Born:July 8, 1993-adopted: June 18, 1998-died:August 18, 2004
Sgathan's Brandubh
Born:June 1, 1996-adopted:Feb. 6, 1999-died:March 18, 2008
Scolaighe (Hi Tech Lollypop)
Born:May 13, 1998-adopted:March 22, 2003-died:December, 12, 2009

"Three glories of a gathering: a comely [mate], a good horse, a swift hound."
Trecheng Breth Féne-88
I miss my best horse and swiftest hounds!


"We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other way. We cherish memory as the only certain immortality, never fully understanding the necessary plan"
Irving Townsend

Marriage is an option we should all have.

The International Purple Ribbon Project Against Violence Against Women

End All Horse Slaughter NOW!









dressagespirit was kind enough to make a feed for the blog here on LJ for anyone who might wish to read it on their flist here champ_ourselves


*Quote of Sarah Connor in T2, but in a different language.
** Quote of Ripley 8 in Alien Resurrection.


The weather MAY be similar to this, which is actually Whitefield about an hour or more south of here, then again the weather on the Hill isn't always the same as down in Colebrook village, anyway.

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