☆❀☆

From Night Became Years. Something about this poem just hits right. Like, it's obviously not meant to be how I'm seeing it, but it just has that vibe. So.

( Visiting Cross Lake )

Oh no, it's starting to get colder.

I'm not going to say the W-word or the M-name, because that means That Season will get here a little bit faster. But when I stepped outside this morning, I could feel it.

I'm not ready for summer to be over! It's hardly been a proper summer at all! It's been cold and rainy and gross! And August is almost over. Terrible.

Just a little bit longer...

laufeyknits threw a witchcraft-related ask meme up on tumblr. Kind of neat, but I didn't feel like doing the whole ask meme process, so I decided to be old-fashioned and fill it all out on DW.

( Continued )

I like this. A lot. The final lines, of course, but also just... in general. It's like Marzanna and Veles together in one poem.

Love for Other Things

It’s easy to love a deer
But try to care about bugs and scrawny trees
Love the puddle of lukewarm water
From last week’s rain.
Leave the mountains alone for now.
Also the clear lakes surrounded by pines.
People are lined up to admire them.
Get close to the things that slide away in the dark.
Be grateful even for the boredom
That sometimes seems to involve the whole world.
Think of the frost
That will crack our bones eventually.

-Tom Hennen, from Darkness Sticks to Everything

☆ Eugh, it's all sloppy and damp out. I'm hoping that the muck on the sidewalks will all melt away very quickly, without staying too long in the "icy as hell in the mornings" stage, but that is wishful thinking....

☆ Started working on a lace scarf, as mentioned in previous entries. This is my first time working with laceweight yarn + lace-style pattern; we'll see how this goes. Sized up the needles because I tend to work tight, hopefully I won't end up regretting that. :T

☆ Work is crazypants and will continue to be until July or so. Typical for this time of year. Prepare for grumping about backlog, lost paperwork, and being overtired. ;p

☆ YiH: I'm thinking about doing a giveaway for one of Mikael's Year in Hereafter prints. Leaning toward "yes", but haven't decided dates yet. This one would be done through a google docs form instead of the previous method - my usual way of doing giveaways works fine for larger fandoms like Hetalia or even SSSS, but YiH is so tiny and spread across multiple platforms, hmm.

☆ Check out this art of Marzanna. Ahhh I can't stop looking at it; I really love it. What an excellent end-of-winter portrayal of her. <3

I think in the morning I will go into the forest... There are a lot of things in the world that have been weighing heavily on me, and I need to clear my head.

( Continued )

☆ Back to work tomorrow. Ugh. On the one hand, it'll be nice to be able to get out of the house. On the other, my office is usually even colder than my bedroom... brr. I should remember to put some gloves in my bag. Eugh.

☆ I've been doing nothing but knitting for days and this hat is still not done, mrrrrr.

☆ Finally got around to watching Kampen om tungtvannet AKA The Heavy Water War. I'd wanted to watch it when the series originally came out, because it looked interesting, but I'm glad that I ended up waiting until there was an official release available. Apparently the fanmade subtitles that were available at an early date were a little bit questionable. ;) Anyway, it was good - highly dramatized of course, but you know. Aaaand now I want to read more about this... I'm pretty sure I have a book on it somewhere. In, um, that big pile of unread stuff. Well.

☆ ...Speaking of which, though, I really should pick up Norwegian again one of these days. There were several points while watching it that I was like "Hey! I know what they said!" but there were so, so many parts that just completely sounded like mush. x) Ehhh something to try in the new year, perhaps...

☆ One of my christmas gifts came in a really awesome box. It's sturdy and brightly-coloured and the sort of thing I've been searching for a while... I've turned it into a witchbox. 8) It can fit two spreadcloths, my altarcloth, two decks, bundles of cedar and sage, some small beeswax candles, aaand a small bag of stones. (I don't even work with stones, but they were a gift a looong time ago, so.) Feels a little bit silly to be more excited about the box than the actual present, but it's just so nice to be able to keep everything neatly in one place. (Well, not everything, but at least the fiddly bits that are hard to find a good place for.)

The bears have gone to sleep for the winter, and that means it's safe to go into the forest alone.

( Dumping some thoughts here )