just like the song.....Today is sprinkled with magick here and there.  Mundane magick but it's the most enveloping for me.  Warm and spingly.  Some laundry hanging out to dry, some staking of the green tomato plants that are 7 feet high even if they aren't ripening and some knitting.  It all holds dear to my heart and I pull as much if not more magick from these than I do any ritual.  In fact, these are my rituals and I thank the Universe for them. 

In between laundry runs to the basement I'm knitting this cable scarf out of some alpaca silk yarn I found in the sale bin at the yarn shop several months ago.  It feels like butter and will keep someone very warm this winter.  I don't always know who the knits are for until they're finished....I had thought this was mine but now I'm not sure.  But that's half the fun of making them:-)

kisses...

and I'm finding that to be just fine.   The appts and important tasks are followed through with but the small but significant ideas I have of what will be done around the house and gardens seems to dissappear as fast as I have them.  Or the plan to catch a movie on a scorching day like yesterday.   Yesterday I went downstairs to the basement and didn't come up for several hours...missed the movie but I felt great when I emerged with a clean and organized pantry :-)    As you go down the stairs, on the right side of the wall is a built in pantry.  It's more like a cold cellar as it's surrounded by the unfinished other basement half.  It's nicely framed into the wall and has clearly been there since the house was built.....and I LOVE IT!  But it had become unruly with unused dishes, pans, cookware, appliances.  So out everything came and I only put back what I use frequently.  One section is for non food items and the other 3 sections are for food storage.  My food storage guru and fearless leader Em will be proud!    And I have to say, it was so satisfying to know it's done.  Now I just have the extras to drop off at Goodwill. 

I had an acupuncture treatment today and it was rather difficult to get through.  An empath's life is always filled with energy circling about.  We pull it from everywhere and even when we're home alone we pull it.  And that's the gift of being an empath but in order to stay afloat and stay present in a harmonious balance with myself,  I absolutely have to find the way to channel it out and pull the energy from the Universe instead of myself.  I'm working on it daily but it takes a concentrated effort.  While I was on the table I was feeling very heavy and blocked.  Panic set it but I breathed my way through it.  My acupuncturist came in to check on me and talked me through the second part of the session.  I have another appt. tomorrow. She said I have a lot of junk trapped and it may be uncomfortable as it finds it's release.  I can take pain and uncomfortableness, just as long as I know its that and not a heart attack.  Much of it is trapped in the heart chakra.....no surprise there.  I also need to get myself out to my tree and root myself in QiGong.   Its been a very long time since I've done that and from her lesson today it appears I've not been doing it long enough.  She taught me how to bring it from tree to head, down to heart and over to liver(where all my crap is) and down the leg and out.    What a gift these lessons are.  And I have two beautiful gifts on the side of my house that hold my hammock.  Two gorgeous birch trees. It's all so connected....I'm a Sagitarrius, and Birch tree is my tree.  It holds so much power for me and I intend to channel that power far more often than I have been.

Last night was a wrestless sleep, you know the kind where it doesn't feel like you slept?  Up at 2, then up at 4:30 to see my girl off. She' on her way to NYC for two weeks with a friend who has relatives scattered about.  I finally decided to give up on sleep and just stay up.  Then gasp upon gasps, the half/half was empty!  So off to the store I went, early.  It's going to be record breaking temps today.  They're saying 105.  I remember when I was pregnant was Alex 21yrs ago, at this time and was due on Aug 12th.  It was so so hot and it reminded me of that time.  Funny how little things stir the memory.  I think I'm going to slip down to the theater and watch Mama Mia...they have a noon showing and the AC is sounding especially nice, as is the time alone. 

Be kind to yourselves today and remember, if you're carrying a load that is weighing you down, you need only lay it at the path for whomever, whatever, you believe in.   The soil, the gods, the deities, the stick on the ground, whatever, the power and magick is in us and whatever we feel connected to.  And if you don't feel connected, which is easy to feel when the universe is kicking ass, then maybe just try and remember that those closest to you will carry you....as I have been carried in the past.

big loves.....

Healing energy and prayers for Morgan Freeman please.....he has an amazing spirit of kindness and goodness and needs healing.

As I was merrily chomping away on the cherry tomatoes this morning I looked over and saw half my squash eaten.  I knew I had some slug/snail issues but this is really bad.  I told K I was grabbing the camera to post on the garden forums asking what it might be but as I uploaded the pictures there it was, captured on film, or digital..ha!  Funny how things we don't see in front of us have been there all along.  Take a look, see the buggers? ...it's time for some tough garden love.