Mystical Mundane

You’ve Heard of Ello, but Have You Heard of Diaspora*?

My youngest son has asthma, or sensitive airways, or some such thing such as that. Hard to say at his age exactly what it is, but for now it is treated as asthma. When he gets a cold, it is especially difficult for him. Well, he has had a particularly rough summer with his bouts of breathing distress, and so when he suddenly got a cold on top of it, I knew I wanted to find extra assistance. The puffer helps with the asthma attacks but I wanted to find something that could help the spasms from a different angle So I decided to hit up the vitamin store to seek out something with Drosera (sundew) in it and perhaps Thyme . I found a homeopathic cough syrup with Drosera in it along with Dock and a few other things. It was only for infants-3yrs old. He is five, but a small five. I figured it would have to do, I saw some dried elderberries on the shelf as well and decided I would make some elixer. So, back at home I got out the Thyme - which is supposed to help quite a bit with asthma by...

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The summer has been odd. I've not spent the time outside that I normally have. We went away to the island, and that was fantastic, but then we got back here and I fell into my same old habits of internet addiction. The sad thing is, I'm not even focused. Started a course in Kemeticism and I am 6 assignments behind. I've gained more weight. I have so many ideas about different things and nothing gets complete. Then I feel  like a failure. My perception is so easily skewed. Part of me wants to accept that it is simply the way I am, and accept, and love myself regardless. The other part of me thinks that's a huge fucking cop-out. I feel this constant irritation or tug. This vague vastness that is trying to pull me out of the chaos and bring me home. I don't know what it is though, so it just pricks and prods at me. I need to get back into my spiritual practice - but try as I might, 'little me' has other ideas. Wanting to play games, browse online endle...

I still haven't gotten around to posting the rest of our trip. I have it written down but my focus has been sooo off. I'll just share some more of the pictures from our trip.

More aptly titled 'Holidays on ONE of the Islands' I suppose, seeing as how there are so many islands sprinkled about our West Coast. Normally we go to Galiano Island in the summer, but we learned that the cabin was up for sale. Initially we were very disappointed, but then we realized it could be an opportunity to discover the joys of a new Southern Gulf Island. So we spent some time looking at different rentals - an expense we hadn't had to bear before as the cabin we stayed in before was a friend's family cabin so we were able to stay for free - and realized that already anything affordable was not available during the time we wanted to be able to go. Then there was the fact that many of the cabins were simply on someone's property, or were in a cluster of cabin rentals - we REALLY wanted the same experience we'd been spoiled with, of being in the woods in a very private setting. And for each day that passed, my husband risked running out of holiday dates t...