Posts in the “HOLY DAY” category

A Bright Blue Wish

by Angeliska on December 31, 2010

This is an invocation. Breathe in blue, breathe out black. Throw the old wishes in the river, detritus of the old year, burnt to ash, warped and transformed, buried on the land where your ancestors spun in circles in May, (…)

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Day of the Dead in New Orleans

by Angeliska on December 27, 2010

Thinking about New Orleans all the time, and worrying for all my friends there. People are afraid to leave their houses, talking about buying shotguns, and reinforcing their doors and the bars on their windows. It’s hard to think back (…)

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Hexmas Spirits

by Angeliska on December 25, 2010

✶ A Very Haeckel Christmas “Ernst Haeckel’s 1904 “Kunstformen der Natur” [Artforms of Nature] is a classic of biological illustration. What is less generally known is that the artist started as a Christmas card designer. The book was originally simply (…)

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Winter Solstice – Blood Moon

by Angeliska on December 20, 2010

(This photo, and all others in this post, unless noted, is by the marvelous Sofia Ajram) Dark times, my loves. Dark days before the sun returns to us. Tonight even the moon will hide her face, turn the color of (…)

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Sketchy Bunnies!

by Angeliska on April 3, 2010

Sketchy Bunnies, y’all. I’m sorry I have to expose you to these horrors, and I hope seeing them won’t scare you away from our Easter Egg Hunt, but they’re just too good (wrong?) not to share. Many thanks to the (…)

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