Full Moon Altars: Introduction

I had so much fun in December creating my Winter Solstice Altar that I've decided to continue making new monthly altars as a kind of spiritual practice. Now that I'm no longer facilitating my drumming circle and my favourite local labyrinth has ceased being available for walking, I'm feeling the need for another outlet through which to focus these energies.

Each monthly altar will have a theme built around an aspect of the Divine Feminine or a spiritual value of some description. And I'm just bursting with ideas! Also, bursting with Goddess statues -- I'm a collector and currently have about 75 to choose from. I won't run out for a while, LOL!

I intend to post a photo and description of each altar on that month's Full Moon. So January's altar will be posted next Thursday, but I just wanted to give a little introduction first as to what I am doing in this new blog series.

May Sanity Prevail Once More

Happy Inauguration Day, America!

Whose Side Would Captain America Be On?

[First edition comic,

March 1941]

And now here's an updated 

first edition comic cover

created by Jon Wesley Huff --

Remember This Little Guy?

My Nordic gnome objected very strenuously to being put away until next December. He wanted to remain out and about, so I had to find a new household job for him to perform, in order to prevent him from simply running amok making mischief. Wrangling Christmas cards is a seasonal task only.

Therefore, he is now the Permanent Official Guardian of The Big Basket of Cushions in the living room and has settled into his new responsibilities quite well.

And he is no longer nameless. Because of his rather magnificent beard, he has proudly taken the moniker of: 

Fearsome the Fierce! 

He chose this name because he is a great admirer of the blog Fearsome Beard and checks out the featured "Beard of the Day" regularly, if you know what I mean.

[photos © Debra She Who Seeks, 2020 & 2021]

Thursday Art Date With Rain: "Birds and the Sky"

Rain's art theme for this week 

inspired me to finally finish 

one of my long-neglected assignments 

from the "Art of Coloured Pencils" 

class I took in the Fall of 2019.

Our subject was a cheery little warbler 

of some description or another 

(hey, I'm no birder, LOL!)

Here's the assignment at 

various stages of completion:

A word about the twigs --

the three completed ones

in this next photo

are meant to be bold, clear

and in the foreground.

All the rest are meant to

be fuzzy, indistinct

and in the background.

I'll let you judge whether I 

successfully accomplished that 

in the final version.

This is where I left off --

And here's the final version,

created from 17 different

colours of Prismacolor pencils.

I'm not thrilled with the background twigs

but I'm happier with them than with that

goddamn leaf beside the bird's body.

It's the worst fuckin' leaf

in the history of leaves

and I ain't lyin'.

But before everyone tells me

I'm too self-critical,

just let me say that

I'm very happy with 

my rendition of the bird

and the foreground twigs.

[Art and photographs © Debra She Who Seeks, 

December 2019 and January 2021]

F.U. Déjà Vu

And of course, HRH must have the last word --

Swiss Chalet Bird House

When My Rare One asked what kind of miniature bird house I would like to have, I thought immediately of my heritage and said -- a Swiss chalet! And then, quite frankly, I forgot all about it. But look what she surprised me with at Christmas!

To a basic little wooden A-frame bird house, My Rare One created and added -- window boxes full of flowers, shutters, stencilled adornments, net curtains inside the windows, a woodpile, a watering can, skis and ski poles, and a Swiss flag!

Traditionally, chalets in the Alps often had rocks weighing down their roofs so a select few were glued to this roof as well!

My Rare One added a hand-painted "stone" chimney at the back too.

Here's a closeup of those adorable little skis and the front flower box with its greenery and colourful flowers!

How my Mom and my Swiss-born Grandma would have loved this! And of course, I love it too!

[All photos © My Rare One, 2020]