Monthly Archives: November 2008

I’m In Love

By xtina | Published: November 11, 2008

Our granola recipe was inspired by Amy Carol of Angry Chicken fame. This is our modified recipe based on her granola recipe. 3 cups rolled oats 1 cup seeds, nuts, or other add-ins. (I use 1/2 cup pumpkin seeds, 1/2 cup chopped walnuts, 3 tbsp flax seeds) 1/3 cup maple syrup or honey or agave [...]

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don’t look back, don’t look away

By xtina | Published: November 10, 2008

There was a certain vigor to my getting ready routine this morning due to our new furniture. It’s amazing how nice it is to reach into a drawer and pull out a pair of socks.  You see for the last 10 months or more, we’d been keeping our assortment of vestments in these giant plastic [...]

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Read into it what you will.

By spider | Published: November 9, 2008

You are The Devil Materiality. Material Force. Material temptation; sometimes obsession The Devil is often a great card for business success; hard work and ambition. Perhaps the most misunderstood of all the major arcana, the Devil is not really “Satan” at all, but Pan the half-goat nature god and/or Dionysius. These are gods of pleasure [...]

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You know, the horse that I’m ridin’

By xtina | Published: November 9, 2008

Some days are slogs through distractions and full of effort to complete important tasks while your body decides that now is good time to fall apart. Today was tough. I felt like going to bed 2 hours ago, but here I am with burning eyes in front of the ‘pomputer’ (as the kidlet used to [...]

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You’ve got to Vibrate On

By xtina | Published: November 8, 2008

Eating: fair-trade organic milk chocolate (I love you green & black!) Whum, straight into the 8th day frizzle-frazzle. Ima tired. So durn tired, but I will write. What should I write about? Wade sez I should write about the ‘rhythm of the universe’. Herm. Instead I think I will write about why we spend so [...]

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allegro maestoso

By xtina | Published: November 7, 2008

Each of my grandmothers endured many hardships that I will never have to face. One of these challenges is the burden of compulsory pregnancy. My grandmothers each had 7+ pregnancies resulting in 17 births. In most cases, the amount of time between births was less than 15 months, in some cases it was less than [...]

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Let it Die

By xtina | Published: November 6, 2008

You are the World Completion, Good Reward. The World is the final card of the Major Arcana, and as such represents saturnian energies, time, and completion. The World card pictures a dancer in a Yoni (sometimes made of laurel leaves). The Yoni symbolizes the great Mother, the cervix through which everything is born, and also [...]

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Momento

By xtina | Published: November 5, 2008

Grasping each moment. Paying attention to my loved ones. Loving my family. Appreciating my life. These are actions that I try to take every day. Stopping in the midst of a busy day to say “I love you”, to offer an unsolicited kiss, to hold a hand, to hug someone. Each day is full of [...]

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Change is in the air

By xtina | Published: November 4, 2008

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Lucas & Xissy talk about November 4th from xtimu on Vimeo. We didn’t know who would win, but we were hoping. We have a lot of work ahead of us. THANK YOU to everyone who worked so hard to make this happen!

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The Ritual of Voting

By spider | Published: November 4, 2008

As I stood in the voting booth shortly before 8:00 this glorious November morning, between marking my ballot YEA or NAY to two of nearly 50 state and city referendums, I realized what a meaningful part of my life this periodic ritual of voting is to me. Every Vote Counts, or so we are reminded [...]

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The first thing that I’ll do

By xtina | Published: November 3, 2008

Children learn from watching their adults. They are watching and listening and creating a detailed profile of all the behaviors you exhibit, even the ones you may not be aware of. Many times Lucas has astounded me by asking “Mommy, why are you [doing this action] differently?” and I pause to consider my behavior and [...]

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Survivalist

By spider | Published: November 3, 2008

Recently I was thinking, as I often do. And like it has occasionally over the past year or so, my mind wandered upon the idea that I am woefully unprepared, should some calamitous disaster – be it natural or induced by man – radically impact the world I live in. An earthquake, perhaps. Or a [...]

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