On Being a Mother and Trying to Get a Life

Ok, so I am not really a Mother... but I did give birth to something this week and like any first time Mum I am there constantly checking and tweaking and looking... Enough said... I need to let it grow by itself a little. I just hope it does grow. I hope it doesn't turn into a nasty teenager and remains a nice dutiful, kind sort of a being.

Time to leave it be and not obsess...

I did my first vision board Thursday and I love it but I shan't post it because I ruthlessly borrowed images and feel I shouldn't repost them. The thing that came through is the phrase the root of me with the question what is the root of me? It has a celtic circular pattern, a moon over water, a spiral stone staircase, a brightly coloured duo of person and child, a man looking at a tree and a fantastic and strange planty sorty of a lady.... I just need to finish the lettering and stick it up by my shrine.

Last night we went out to see District 9 which is very good but I would hesitate to recommend. It is a sci-fi movie with aliens and gore and action but it is also a strong statement about the morals of people and the society we live in. Many who would like the moral story wouldn't like the gore and vice versa. It is a film I hope they don't make a sequel to. We then ate some lovely food and came home to bed and Little Dog.

This morning I have promised myself a trip to St Ives for my Artist's Date. I want to go and buy some beads and some more glue. I also want to go to the Barbara Hepworth Garden. I don't know how famous Barbara Hepworth was around the world but she was a fantastic sculptress who lived in St Ives. The garden to her old home is beautiful. It may be small but her understanding of space and shape allowed her to transform it and of course, to fill it with sculptures that sit well in their surroundings..... I love it there...

An Invite

I have done a little reading on Ning and it seems you can give people an invitation link which allows them to join a private social network. You can then, at some point in the future, change this link so that the old invitation link doesn't work.

So I heartily invite you lovely people to come and join...

by clicking here!

I do hope this works!

Oh and yes, if you tried it before and it didn't work, it should work now....

The Spiral Path

I belong to some beautiful online groups. Some are about creativity. Some are about that edge where creativity and spirituality blur. All are full of lovely supportive people and I accomplish more because of them. I find their ideas fill me with ideas and an extra energy or impetus.

I am not sure how my thoughts took me there this morning but it occurred to me that I want a different sort of group. I want a witchy group or maybe more of a green pagan group or maybe just a spiritual group. I want to do the book A Witch Alone by Marian Green with other. I want to do it in the loosest sense though. Talking about the subjects she covers each month and setting one goal and each of us talking about our experiences with that. A Spiral Path, twisting and turning upon itself of beautiful womanly, earthy learning.

Such a group of women of course could accomplish many things. Many, many things. All depending on what they wanted. The initial thing though is to set up a community of such women. Except I am a part of such a community already, here in blogville. I guess I just want to focus it all a little more. I want to give my spirituality the same support I give my creativity...

Any ideas? Any suggestions? Would you like to join such an endeavour? I personally think such a group should be private and password protected.

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I got a little distracted just then. I belong to a lovely creative group called On The Wing which is hosted on Ning. Just discovered how easy it is to set up such things and now it exists... Here to be precise...

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Earlier on I noticed that Jamie Ridler's Wishcasting Wednesday question was 'What Do You Wish To begin?'

So this is what I wish to begin! What a coincidence! Even if you don't fancy it for yourself, I would love for your wishes for it to be a happy supportive community, even if it only ever has me as a member (*laugh*)

Oh I have so many things I need to do to it to make it look nice so don't be expecting any lovely fancy thing....