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from Mary @ Tea, Sympathy, and PerfumeI’ve been unbelievably remiss in updating my blog. I’m a bad blogger. If I had to do this for a living, I guess I’d be living in a dumpster.Laziness is somewhat acceptable, I suppose, when it comes to blogging but when it comes to the size of one’s thi…
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Other than randomly futzing around with my title art, I haven’t had much time lately to post anything substantial. Seems like every time I turn around, there’s a load of laundry waiting to be folded, a trip to the grocery store to be made, or the dishw…
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I received two dozen white roses today. Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! Please give yourself a huge hug from me, will ya?
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The buds on my pear tree are tipping…it’s much too early. We can get some wicked cold snaps in this part of Virginia in March!I’ve had precious little free time in the past week, my dears. I’ve been putting in some extra hours at work to get a proje…
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Bride of the earth, sister of the faeries,daughter of the Tuatha de Danaan, keeper of the eternal flame.In autumn, the nights began to lengthen,and the days grew shorter,as the earth went to sleep.Now, Brighid stokes her fire,burning flames in the hear…
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I have news on the job. My boss called me in for a meeting on Tuesday and asked me if I would be willing to stay in my current position if they upgrade my level to exceed the new job’s salary. Apparantly the sky will fall if I leave. I replied to Chi…
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Still no word yet on my impending (please Goddess!) new job. Which isn’t particularly cause for concern, because everything involving the government moves at the speed of cold molasses. Will all of you please say a collective prayer for me? I’m feeling…
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I can’t stand this man. He’s dartboard material.
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from Mary @ Tea, Sympathy, and PerfumeMe (left), Mom, my sister Carol. This is dated 1962, so I was about 2 1/2 Matching sailor dresses at Christmas, I think this is 1963. Carol and I, Christmas 1964. I believe that’s Barbie’s best friend, Midge, I’m holding. Me in the pumpkin patch in Ma…
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from Mary @ Tea, Sympathy, and PerfumeMay 2008 bring you health, luck, love, happiness and peace.
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from Mary @ Tea, Sympathy, and PerfumeI hope everyone is enjoying a healthy and happy Yuletide! This old year is almost over; can you believe it? I must confess that none of my New Year’s Resolutions revolve around weight loss, paying off my credit cards, or joining a gym. Mine run more…
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from Mary @ Tea, Sympathy, and PerfumeWinter, (Erte)The Solstice is here! Time for the ancient tradition of hanging the evergreens and the mistletoe. Time to make the Wassail and drink to the Oak King, who battles and defeats the Holly King today. Early Christians coincided their celebrat…
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from Mary @ Tea, Sympathy, and PerfumeNews Flash:I’ve just been offered a new job. Literally it has fallen into my lap, from out of the blue. Significantly more money and probably less stress.I should feel elated, but to be honest…I feel scared. Really scared.When good things happen t…
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from Mary @ Tea, Sympathy, and PerfumeI’m grateful for tea and for the ancient Chinese emperor, Shen Nung, who ordered all drinking water to be boiled for hygiene, and whos kettle received some stray dried leaves one day from a nearby tea plant. (Okay it’s a myth, but I love myths.)I’m gra…
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from Mary @ Tea, Sympathy, and PerfumeWhich Alice character are you? Take this quiz: Click Me One thing is for sure- you’re as mad as a hatter. You have an obsession with time and if tea time were to ever cease, you would probably be even more confused.I recently purchased this bracelet fr…
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from Mary @ Tea, Sympathy, and PerfumeI wish you all a happy Samhain!A dark Cave. In the middle, a Caldron boiling. Thunder.Enter the three Witches.1 WITCH. Thrice the brinded cat hath mew’d.2 WITCH. Thrice and once, the hedge-pig whin’d.3 WITCH. Harpier cries:—’tis time! ’tis ti…
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from Mary @ Tea, Sympathy, and PerfumeMercury in retrograde has been wreaking havoc for me this week: nitwits with shiny gold ornaments on their uniforms at my government job have made my workplace seem even more Rube Goldberg-esque than usual. (I’m convinced that the government’s raison d…
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from Mary @ Tea, Sympathy, and PerfumeOctober means McIntosh apples for me. Oh how I love their soft, snowy white flesh and sweet-tart, almost wild, taste. Vivid memories of a big birchwood basket of Macs on our porch in Maine, their fragrance sharp and dusky, with tiny dried leaves curled…
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from Mary @ Tea, Sympathy, and PerfumeThe Equinox is here, the day of perfect balance between light and dark; the time when Mother becomes Crone. It’s Harvest Home, the second of the three great harvest festivals: time to press the grapes and dry the herbs! Medieval Christians called it Mi…
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from Mary @ Tea, Sympathy, and PerfumeAt last, my hectic life is easing up a bit and I can return to some of life’s simple pleasures like reading, writing, and being able to sit down and relax for more than 5 minutes.Up until this summer, Phil’s employer was Ford Motor Company, who decided…
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from Mary @ Tea, Sympathy, and PerfumeToday I am thinking about all of the people on the airliners who were killed on September 11, 2001, all of the people in the Twin Towers and the Pentagon who were killed, and the magnificent heroes who went to the rescue. I will light a candle for thei…
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from Mary @ Tea, Sympathy, and PerfumeTis Lammas, the ancient Pagan festival of the first gathering of the wheat, and the death of the Sun God. It’s the time to hang sheaves on the door. Time to make the corn dolly that brings blessings on next year’s harvest. In the old days, bonf…
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from Mary @ Tea, Sympathy, and PerfumeFor some inscrutable (to me) reason, there seems to currently be a vast wave of young women with decidedly negative viewpoints about feminism. Like many of my sisters who came of age in the 60’s, 70’s, and perhaps the early 80’s, feminism was about fin…
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from Mary @ Tea, Sympathy, and Perfume…with a case full of dirty laundry, sore feet, an empty refrigerator and ears that haven’t depressurized from the plane yet. Had a wonderful time, will post more soon. Right now I have to get some milk in this house.p.s. I’m delighted to see that the…
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from Mary @ Tea, Sympathy, and PerfumeA few random thoughts before my vacation. Tomorrow I’ll be travelling to Nevada (after much burning of incense, gifting of offerings, and heartfelt supplications to the goddess to keep the damn plane in the air until it’s supposed to come down!), so I’…
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from Mary @ Tea, Sympathy, and PerfumeI haven’t had much down-time lately, but it’s all good. Yesterday, my beautiful and impossibly clever baby girl, Rebecca, graduated with her degree in Broadcast Journalism, with a minor in History. Becca is the bravest, craziest and most sparkling pers…
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from Mary @ Tea, Sympathy, and PerfumeI am taking a break from the POL board. As I alluded to over there, I don’t know yet how long this break will last. I haven’t really gauged my feelings about it that far. I just know that, for right now, I don’t have the time or energy to deal with any…
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