Wal-Mart

WAKE UP AMERICA! Wal-Mart is forcing other businesses out of business! Its not about lower prices, its about c getting the small businessman out of America. Do you think I am wrong? Try this out for size.

Wal-Mart opened a store in this small town I live in. The local art shop only lasted six months. There is no way a small store can compete with the global economy of hiring workers from China to make your product for you. Now that the local art supply stores in the area are all gone, Wal-Mart is getting rid of their art supply section. What are the artist suppose to do? This might not seem like a big deal to you, after all its only art right? what if they put all the electronic stores out of business and stopped carrying electronics? They have shut down local butcher shops, hardware stores and auto mechanics shops. what will happen to us when they say they wont supply us with these services anymore? We will be like old Russia standing in line for bread and soup and toilet paper because we wont have jobs or businesses and we will be "told" what we can and cant have.

We Need Help

this is a picture posted by the Times Picayune NOLA.com
It is a picture of Dan Walter Kerry who was shot and killed going to a local fair on Sunday. He was just 16 years old.



In the past 3 days there have been five people shot and killed in the New Orleans area. These have been individual instances that have somehow gripped my heart. Most of the murders are teens. Think about it TEENS! What were you doing at 14, 16, 18? I was going to football games, homecoming dances, rollerskating and hanging out with my friends at slumber parties. Sure we drank a beer once in a while but we stayed out of major trouble. It is hard for me to comprehend that these people are involved with things that are getting them killed at such a young age. Further more, its hard to believe I live here watching it go down. Tuesday night and a 17 year old is lying dead in the street. How could anyone put anything over a life?

Thugs have no respect for life until its their own that has been taken or dissed. Can't dis a homey ya know what I'm sayin? (as they cock a pistol and point it your way) When did life get so unimportant? How does an entire mentality snap and think money or even words are more important than life? I just dont understand.

I weep for the people who live in this kind of culture. I weep for the dead and I weep for those who kill. May the gods grant safety to the ones who dont want to live there and cant leave. I wish we could just shout STOP and have it be so.

5 dead in 3 days.... 5 dead in 3 days..... 5 dead..... and I cry because tomorrow is another day that I will look in the crime section and probably see another story that says "police are asking for any information about this shooting please call crime stoppers" then it will be 6 dead in 4 days.

STOP!

shout

shout shout let it all out, these are the thing I can do without come on Im talking to you come on.

In violent times, you shouldn't have to sell your soul. In black and white, they really really ought to know,

those one track minds that took you for a working whore, kiss them goodbye you shouldn't have to jump for joy you shouldn't have to shout for joy.

they gave you life, and in return you gave them hell. as cold as ice I hope we live to tell the tale.

and when you've taken down your guard, If I could change your mind,
I'd really like to break your heart. I'd really like to shake your heart.


its a simple song, what does it mean? I believe it means in order for there to be change there has to be some sort of turmoil. and they are asking why. Why indeed. why must it be this way? why cant we just move past all the crap. Why must people die in order for the rest of us to know how to live? Why must there be hate in order for us to know what love is? what an insane place we live in.

HATE

It has occurred to me that some people are filled with so much hate that they tend to twist everything ever taught them.

I was involved in a conversation with someone about the native Americans and the pilgrims/puritans. My knowledge of the puritans is that 1/2 of them died. They knew nothing of the land. The natives taught them how to survive. Thanksgiving was born.

The person I was having a conversation with refused to celebrate thanksgiving because the whites killed the natives and she wouldnt celebrate that. She refused to believe that the pilgrims were thankful of the lessons learned in how to survive here.

Pardon me but WTF? How much self hate can a person have that she could put that hate into history of the first pilgrims whos lives were saved. I was told that I have rose colored glasses and that I dont see the truth. Again WTF?

Squanto the native American who spoke English because he was a slave in England years before, took mercy on the Puritans. I celebrate the Native culture and their acceptance of us. http://www.history.com/topics/thanksgiving it is a remarkable story.

and to the person filled with hate... screw your self hatred, I love the Native American people, their generosity, kindnesses and knowledge of the land. I am thankful for the friendships made in history and in present. I will not be a part of the growing hatred about my culture and what my ancestors have done. I can only be me. My path is a path I want to bridge over the wrong. I dont deny that wrong has happened but I am not going to forget the good because of the bad either.

October is over

I missed the Samhain coven gathering and for that I am so sad. I must say, I had a blast doing the haunted house. I got so good at scaring I even made a couple of co workers jump LOL. Who knew I had this in me?

Spiritually its been an exhausting month. I have banished a conjured demon and its conjurer I have cast out spirits from a house where the young people were going crazy with worry about the spirits being evil. (silly people) I have rescued some very curious people doing wrong things for wrong reasons... Im tired and need a break.

Moral Magic

In the past week I have experienced some rather interesting thoughts on being moral. I know I have had thoughts on this before but this time I am forced to make a choice and the line is so gray I cant really see it.

I am involved in a very fun group activity of volunteer acting at a haunted house. My second night there I had experienced something of a real haunting within the building. Things like this dont bother me as I know spirits are everywhere. Since then I have been told stories of how a young lady who worked there last year ran screaming of evil and never returned. I have also both taken pictures and seen pictures of unexplained phenomena.

In curiosity to communicate, my co actors decided to bring in a Ouija board. I wasnt told about this until the next day to which my heart sank. I spent the better part of an hour closing all opened forms of communication to the spirit world. My co actors then tried to communicate with the spirit again. This time with no luck. I stuck around to give them a serious talking to about the dangers of opening the doors of communication without knowing what it is they are communicating with. I am not sure if they believed me or not until I opened the doors and asked them to ask how many spirits are there. They got a direct answer for the first time all night.

My problem with this is now they know what I do and part of who I am. They are a curious lot and really wish to have answers. Far to explosive to be serious or level headed about it.

I fear being pestered by my new friends because of my gift. Part of me wants to open the doors again and let them find out for themselves so they will learn the same way I did. Another part of me wants to be patient with them and wait it out. And yet another answer is to teach the entire group how to use the board right. I personally don't like boards because they have no feeling and I have found a lie can be better told without emotions aware.

I have a very important choice to make and to be honest I'm not sure which way I will go.

Completely Drained

After performing the most difficult magic of my life, I am completely drained. It has sapped me of just about any energy I would normally have. I don't want to eat or go anywhere or do anything. I assume that magic is working because I haven't heard anything else negative from the people who asked for help. I don't know how long his will last but when its over I will be sure to post a little of what I did.