I am not (necessarily) a patriot

I have got to get out of here.

Ten years from now, will I look back, look around me, and ahead of me...

and wish I had chose something different?

I want to move to New Zealand.

I have been so depressed lately. So depressed. I don't even know why. Nothing in my life has changed. The parts of my life that suck have always sucked and the good part are still good.

What up wit dat?

I am actually fighting the urge to watch The Two Towers. I saw "Van Hesling" last night and the actor that plays Faramir in LOTR was in VanHesling. David Werner, I believe. Anyway, his character was a friar and just the hair made him look goofy... and in TLOR he was so hot (!) I just wanted to turn on The Two Towers and behold his hottness. And Aragorn's hottness. And Legolas' hottness. And Sam's damn cuteness! And Pipp's cuteness!

I need help.

What is Kitchen Witchery?

"The term "Kitchen Witch" brings up many different images to people, but the most common idea is that of a Witch who practices her art mainly thru cooking and common household skills. Another image is that of one who uses common everyday items in her art, drawing up memories of the Burning Times, when it was necessary to hide your working tools from those who would persecute you for their possession. While both of these images are certainly true ones, Kitchen Witchery goes far beyond magical cooking or using ordinary items as magical tools.

One Kitchen Witch, Mama Rose, defines Kitchen Witchery in the following way: "My spirituality and my priestesshood and my magick are based around the concept that my home is my temple, all in it are consecrated and holy, and each action that I do is a portion of the ritual of my life."It is my belief that the heart of Kitchen Witchery is a talent for finding the sacred and magical in everyday tasks, a philosophy which "practices the presence of the Goddess" in daily devotion through ordinary actions.

The Kitchen Witch makes the ordinary, extraordinary, the mundane magickal and by doing so, acknowledges the presence of the Divine in all things.Sacred vs. Profane One way in which Neo-Pagan religions differ in philosophy from the Judeo/Christian/Moslem paradigm is in their recognition of the sacredness in all things. The mainstream paradigm creates a philosophical dichotomy between the Sacred and the Profane (i.e. ordinary/mundane), that which is not "sacred" is, by definition "profane". In Neo-Paganism, ALL things are sacred. No such dichotomy exists.The Kitchen Witch takes that philosophy to it's extreme logical conclusion and finds ways to acknowledge the sacred within the mundane. How this is done is a matter of personal artistic expression. Most are familiar, of course, with the act of cooking magickally or setting up household altars. But it doesn't stop there. Some Kitchen Witches may clean magically, turning every act of cleaning into a psychic clearing as well. Others may tend magical gardens, care for familiars or raise their children within a magickal world. Kitchen Witchery can extend into actions as mundane and simple as stirring one's coffee clockwise to bless it or remembering to recycle as an act of daily devotion. Not to say that being a Kitchen Witch is restricted to the home! Oh, no! Kitchen Witchery can be practiced anywhere that a Kitchen Witch travels. It can extend to her car, her work and her play, since it acknowledges the divine all around us. Thus, keeping a magickal office can be as much an act of Kitchen Witchery as cooking a magickal meal.

Wherever the Divine exists, a Kitchen Witch will find and acknowledge it."

This article is an excerpt from a Wicca site (The Wiccan Glade, I believe.) The by-line was "author unknown" so I am afriad I can not give proper credit where credit is due. I post this for my own education and have no intentions of attempting to plagerize. Blessed Be.