wedding plans

dear goddess this is not easy. i am trying to plan a yule wedding that is in no way religious. yeah, this coming from the witch. i'm trying to find out a way to convert those plain cheap ornaments from target and wal-mart into place card holders/favors. i thought it would be fun to have individually decorated ornaments for everyone to take home. similar pre-made card holders are like $12 for 4! ridiculous, right? sometimes i forget how many pagans there are when i look for yule wedding ideas. it seems they always ask me "did you mean christmas weddings?" no i did not and fuck you for assuming i must have been thinking of another religion's holiday! well, sort of another religion's holiday...not really, but sort of. where are all the pagans? it seems i go to wiccan and pagan web sites and find that they are not being updated and that nobody has done anything since 2004. 2004 seems to be the average year. did everyone just give up on the web? or am i looking in the wrong places? if i can figure out these programs i'll be making my own, but will i be alone? i hope not. i am unsure though.

the fayries are watching

well, i took this picture quite some time ago. it is just one of many that i have taken with my cheap little digital camera. this type of photography is all it seems good for actually. orbs can be dust, but they can be so much more. if you zoom in and can see something real it can be incredible. i have zoomed in to find my grandfather, the face of one of my cousin's friends, and yes, a fayrie. the fayrie is by far the most outstanding of all the photos. zoomed almost as far as i can get i can clearly see her face and wings. she appears to be laughing or smiling mischieviously to something in the distance. i have always been drawn to the fae, but never had i seen them before on this plane. often resorting to meditation to hear or glimpse them one can imagine my shock at this photograph. whenever i take a picture that seems to have something unexpected in it i scrutinize it and search for anything to say that it was dust or light. there is no mistaking this tiny shadow from the other world. see for yourself.
this photo was a complete accident. i was at my nephew's birthday party and he bumped into me while i was holding the camera. well, needless to say i hit the button as i held the camera out of the little guy's reach. i nearly deleted the picture right then and there, but when i saw there were orbs present i thought i'd load it on my computer and take a closer look. almost a year went by and i forgot about the picture. then i decided to clear my camera. i loaded the pictures onto the computer and came across it again. tell me what you think.

my first rant

so here i am doing something i never thought about doing before. perhaps i will tire of it and scrap the whole thing, but then again, maybe not. whatever the case may be i suppose i shall begin my first rant.

if one thing has me irked right now i must say the issue and debate over immigration is near the top of my list. unless your ancestors were forced onto a reservation i have news for you people. you are descended from immigrants so you should get over yourselves! years ago it was the irish who were blamed for all the jobs going to immigrants. it has been every group of europeans thus far who blamed one another for one thing or another. now suddenly because the people seeking freedom are not caucassion it is a big deal to you people!?!
that being said i do think the whole legality is a problem. when you have people who don't pay taxes and need to use programs funded by taxes there is an issue. however looking at the hassle and hurdles to gain legal immigration status leads me to believe that a person would be more than a little overwhelmed by the process.
some say the solution is to build fences and station armed guards. others say that preventing people from setting foot on our soil is the key. my thought is not to shut out and isolate, but rather to rework the immigration process so that it is less confusing. if you have people who do not understand the culture or language you are going to have some difficulty regardless of the simplicity of the process. however by making the whole thing less intimidating the door will be open to create legal, tax-paying citizens who can contribute to our immigration-based society.
the nest issue regarding immigration would have to be language. once again i say unless your ancestors were driven to a reservation or wiped out by mass genocide, you cannot say that the language of your ancestors is the language of this land. english, while a widespread language throughout the world, is not the first language of this nation. it is true that english is the most common, but spanish is quickly closing the gap. in canada children learn both english and french as a mandatory part of their education. canadians are not ashamed to admit they have enough people who speak both. they understand the need to keep the communication lines open. the hispanic population in this country is growing to become a leading mass. with this in mind i suggest a mandatory spanish education alongside the traditional english. in some states and counties such as florida where i live the policies are already forming due to the growing population. oddly enough one could even argue that we as a nation do not speak actual english. we have changed the language into a dialect based on english much like creole to french and cantonese or mandarin to chinese.
the bottom line is as long as we stay true to our roots there will always be immigrants. we should accept that as reality and stop spouting off hatred. hate does no person any good. we need to work at fixing the problem by reinventing the process and educating our children to be accepting, not tolerant, but accepting. i have a problem with calling it tolerance. a person tolerates what they dislike because they have no real choice. a person who accepts something knows that while they may not agree with or understand something, it is still unique to this world and has it's place therein.