...burning incense to mask reality's stench since 1986.
This post is mostly directed to my readers of the the witchy persuasion regardless of faith.
Tell me something, and you can email me directly if you do not want to post it here:
What is your curse threshold? How far does an enemy/adversary have to push you before all bets are off and you're pushing back by smacking them with the mother of all whammies?
I consider myself an experienced and disciplined practitioner like many of you who read me (I read you), but I have boundaries and gods help the fool arrogant enough to think they can cross them without consequence.
Posted by Rue at 07:07 PM.
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My auntie who raised me passed away last March the night before my hiring interview. I miss her terribly. She was the person I called to discuss everything from family gossip to philosophy.
The other day I picked up a 400g block of savon de marseilles. If you've never seen one of these, it is olive green and contains 72% pure virgin olive oil. Why am I talking about soap, you ask? My auntie always used to tell me about the green soap from France that she loved so much as a child she used to break off pieces of it and nibble on it in secret.
Ten years ago, I stopped in to visit my auntie on my way home from a shopping trip. I had purchased a block of savon de marseilles and pulled it out of my bag to show her. I turned my back for a second to pour a cup of coffee, when I looked back a corner was broken off and my 75 year old auntie looked up at me with a guilty look on her face.
I had completely forgotten all this until I picked up this block of soap the other day.
Sometimes
things can bring people back for a moment.
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Today I was visited by a lovely young lady who had to tell me that I had made such a significant difference in her life she could not go home without telling me so in person.
There is nothing more humbling than this. This lovely young lady with the most sparkling blue eyes and the most serene smile I have ever seen, discovered that she has found her calling and she came to tell me how my instruction and guidance helped her recognize it and experience it fully.
We shared a brief moment where we both knew we had found our 'place' in the world. I thanked her for telling me and told her how much it meant to me.
I was overcome with the enormity of it all and as she walked away, I was moved to tears.
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These are old, but they are classics. Here's a little mental illness health humour to give you a giggle.
Welcome to the Psychological Clinic.
If you have an obsessive-compulsive disorder, please press 1, as many times as you like.
If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2 for you.
If you have
multiple personality disorder, please press 3, 4, 5, and 6.
If you are paranoid or delusional, we know who you are and what you want. Just stay on the line so we can trace the call.
If you are schizophrenic, listen carefully and a little voice will tell you which number to press.
If you are depressed, it doesn't really matter which number you press. Probably no one will answer anyway.
"If a person with multiple personality threatens suicide, is it a hostage situation?" 
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"Munsters" actress Yvonne De Carlo dies at 84
By Arthur Spiegelman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Yvonne De Carlo, who starred in films opposite Clark Gable and Charlton Heston but won enduring fame as wife of a Frankenstein monster-like character in the TV series "The Munsters," has died at age 84, her son said on Wednesday.
Bruce Morgan said his mother, who played Moses' wife in Cecil B. De Mille's 1956 epic "The Ten Commandments," died of natural causes on Monday at the Motion Picture & Television Fund's Retirement Home in the Los Angeles suburb of Woodland Hills.
"She passed away in my arms on Monday," Morgan said, adding that she had been in declining health for several years.
Born in Vancouver, De Carlo was raised in poverty and had to drop out of high school to work. But she won a beauty contest and used that as an entree to bit parts in movies, starting in the 1940s.
She had bit parts in "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (1943) and "The Road to Morocco" (1941). But in 1945, she won a key role in "Salome, Where She Danced," about a ballerina who lands in a small Arizona town.
Paramount signed De Carlo, it was said, because she resembled its major star, Dorothy Lamour, and executives there wanted to warn Lamour that she could be replaced if she gave the studio trouble.
De Carlo appeared in such B-movie staples as "Frontier Gal," "Scarlet Angel" and "Shotgun," showing off an hour-glass figure that won her many fans.
STAR OF STAGE AND SCREEN
While most of the films she made during that period were forgettable, she starred as one of Alec Guinness's two wives in the British comedy classic "The Captain's Paradise" and opposite Heston as Moses' wife in "The Ten Commandments." She also appeared with Gable and Sidney Poitier in 1957's "Band of Angels."
She dropped out of films in 1959 to raise a family, but returned to work in television, where she became a cult favourite as the heavily made-up, ghoulish Lily Munster on the popular sitcom "The Munsters."
From 1964 to 1966, she played opposite Fred Gwynne, who starred as her good-natured but scary-looking spouse, Herman Munster, the head of an oddball family who lived in a big, creepy house at 1313 Mockingbird Lane.
She made nearly 100 films in all, played on Broadway, most famously in Stephen Sondheim's "Follies," and made guest appearances on such TV series as "Bonanza" and "The Virginian."
In a 1987 autobiography, she claimed to have had affairs with several of Hollywood's leading figures, including Howard Hughes, Robert Taylor and Billy Wilder.
Before her death, she performed supporting roles in two independent movies that have yet to be released, playing a psychic who channels UFOs in one and an orphanage nun during World War Two in the other, Morgan said.
"So she's not done yet," he told Reuters.
Her last screen role seen before her death was as an eccentric apartment dweller in the 1995 TV movie "The Barefoot Executive," said her longtime agent, Scott Stander.
"She was quite a pistol," Stander said. "She aged gracefully, she was a beautiful lady."
« Okay, that's it.
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I'd like to thank my handsome, brilliant and devoted
husband for the super job he did on the
Pocus! makeover. I liked the old look but it was time for a change. Also, I have another project in the works that will require
saintly decor.
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Classes started up today. I don't teach on Mondays, so I got to attend orientation. The most heart warming thing is walking into a full auditorium and having students wave and call out hello. Half of them weren't even in my classes last term! Now THAT is cool.
It's really late and I need my beauty sleep.
Have a great day!
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2x
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I'm freeing up space for the new year of course. Although there are 3 categories that are central to my site and therefore will remain intact.
I must confide to you that one individual was self-absorbed enough to send me email implying I was scaling down my blog because I was paranoid and hiding... from them! What a maroon.
I thought I'd give them a thrill and write about them. Especially since they don't have the
coglioni to post a comment on my blog so instead they send me
lame-mail*.
*lame-mail: too mean to be fan mail but too dim and insipid to be hate mail.
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Determined not to miss it this year, I put myself on their mailing list.
Dear Friends of St. Joseph,
In the tradition of the Sicilian St. Joseph Altars of New Orleans, the
Virtual St. Joseph Altar made its online debut in February of 1999. The
number of visitors grows each year. Last year was the biggest yet with almost
200 offerings and over 9,000 visitors.
The Altar is now open for the March 19, 2006 Feast of St. Joseph.
Visit
http://www.thankevann.com/stjoseph and follow the links to make your
virtual offering and add deceased loved ones to the prayer list.
While you are there, be sure to visit the rest of the site. General prayer
requests and comments on the Altar can be posted to the message board:
http://virtualstjoseph.proboards42.com/
Thank you all for your continued support & prayers.
Viva San Guiseppe!
Evann Duplantier
WebMaster
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Virtual St. Joseph Altar
http://www.thankevann.com/stjoseph
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