Ohio Witch

Virgo, Taurus Moon. A woman islanded.

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 Pelmeni, traditional dumplings that hold a near-sacred place in the hearts of the Siberian people inhabiting the Ural mountains, have made their way to convenience stores and the freezer sections of grocery stores all across Russia and Eastern Europe. But the modern convenience food and even homemade versions of pelmeni bare little resemblance to the traditional pelmeni recipe of the Urals which calls for a long, slow souring of dough. It’s a slow food in the best of terms, deeply ethnic, slowly tended over days and making the best use of foods native to the region: dill, cultured cream, fresh whey, wheat and an assortment of meats.

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‭Reporting in ‬ the June issue of Antiquity, archaeologist Marc Azéma of the University of Toulouse–Le Mirail in France and independent French artist Florent Rivère argued that by about‭ ‬30,000‭ ‬years ago Paleolithic artists used "animation effects" in their paintings. To render the movement, they deconstructed it in successive images.

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[thegreenwolf]

Can anyone in the Michigan/northern Ohio area (or reasonably close to it) adopt this adorable bunny? He was found under a porch, lost, and no one claimed him, so his rescuer needs to rehome him! More details here.

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A solstice gift.  Somebody lost a taily-po and left it nearly on my doorstep. 

(Photo by ohiowitch.)

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Unpacking the new spinning wheel--at last!--on Midsummer.

(Photo taken by ohiowitch with her horrible camera in her very poorly lit, old house.)

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Art by Grzegorz Morycinski

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Four days of roofers and cleaning up everyone's vomit. UGH. There is no end in sight.

Downton Abbey had better be good tonight. No more of this "tidily cleaning up all those loose ends so that everyone can be brilliantly happy."

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I just got kicked out of an online homeschoolers group because I pointed out that the book most of them recommended for teaching history "from an evolutionary standpoint" had a distinct Christian bent and was insanely Anglo-centric, excluding almost any mention of the entire continent of Asia.

When I gently reviewed the book so that others on the list who feel as I do about human history would benefit without having to slog through the book themselves, I got a response that said: "Apparently you are unaware that the author died before finishing the book."

Holy fucking shit!? Then why the fuck is it being used when it is obviously incomplete? Again, I calmly stated that I thought this was probably a mark *against* the book, not for it.

Then I was asked to leave the group because I was making others uncomfortable with my inability to accept facts.

Bwahahahaha! Later, bitches. I'll send each of your children a free copy of the book that I am apparently going to have to write my own goddam self.

[ohiowitch-blog]

I am seriously considering "mushroom farmer" as a future career, but then I cringe and wonder why I have to tame everything.

Still, I'm fairly certain fungi will save the world.

[moreofamore-blog]

We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can’t see the stars at night.

Thomas Berry (via moreofamore)

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[deerest-owl]

King Deer by ~Hechicero

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Stag Lord

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Art by Boleslaw Biegas

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You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got. And at one point you’d hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever. And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives. And you’ll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they’ll be comforted to know your energy’s still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you’re just less orderly. Amen.

Aaron Freeman, “You Want A Physicist To Speak at your Funeral” (via NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4675953 )

this made me cry.

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beautiful.

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