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Amber Ray

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About Me

Swamp Pixie Mojo MistressI've got the luck, and the lights...seven bridges, nine bottles, soaked in rum and occasionally flaming. Blue glass lit by candlelight flickerflits and settles with the sunset breezes, trembling hands steady and sure.

South Eastern Virginia foot stompin' Irish poor, born in Orbit in a hunnysuckle patch, where I was wakened by a cow's kiss and the gentle rubbing of velvet antlers. Moths dance with me and serpents sidle by as the rhythm spins me, spins me, winds me up tight!

"Sane people are such cripples! Hamstrung you are, by the real world. Whereas a madman can just dismiss the problem by saying 'it's just the real world' and go on about the important business, which is imagining."
--Eric Flint, in his book Forward the Mage
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My Interests

using plants to heal, making candles, embroidery, drumming on a djembe, dancing my drummers, working the fire, cooking food for those I love, talking things out, having dirty feet, mud-stomping, planting beautiful things, setting sacred space, brewing, stewing, doing, coffee, manifesting my inner dragon (now with less tobacco!), swaying, loving, healing, hugging, touching, brushing, braiding, playing, rolling, jumping, swinging, singing, and lots of other ings. CURRENT MOON lunar phase

I'd like to meet:

will-o-the-wisps, pixies, nixies, boggarts, and goblins, Fauns and Nymphs, nice folks, people I remember from places we haven't been...my ancestors. Love and lights and big and brights.

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Music:

Velvet Hammer, The Raft, Alison Krauss, Robert Johnson, Tori Amos, Corvux Corax, Clutch, Bonnie Raitt, Lightnin Hopkins, Indigo Girls, CSN&Y, Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention, Incus, John Prine, Ani DiFranco, Portishead, Dead can Dance, Black Oak Arkansas, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Grateful Dead, Mozart, Rasputina, Dr. Steel, Gogol Bordello, Milla, Afro Celt, The Raft, Dreamtrybe, Leo Starwind, Regina Spektor, Amy Winehouse, Ziggy Marley, Old School Reggae!!!, my kitty cat's snoring, eric drumming on household appliances, birds and crickets and trickling streams, giggling fauns, bubbling pipes.

Movies:

Muppets, one and all! Princess Bride, Help, Hard Days' Night, Heathers, Dracula, Rob Roy, Interview with a Vampire (when I need wine and sex, Anne Rice always comes through), Zardoz, Kaena, Joe vs the Volcano, The Secret of Nimh, Erik the Viking, Barbarella, The Golden Compass, Easy Rider

Television:

No, thank you.
On teh internets I watch Space Ghost, Coast to coast, Venture Brothers, South Park, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Adultswim.com, and read lots of Webcomics like Something Positive, Questionable Content, Dinosaur Comics, Devil's Panties, Ill Will Press, Married to the Sea...

Books:

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Heroes:

Cuchulain, Brian Boru, My Momma, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, My Nana, Catfish, My Memaw

My Blog

ChaCha rocks!

I have found a job online that I adore!I have to tell you all about ChaCha. If you are:An internet addict like me,Who is really good at searching for specific information online,Can type effectively ...
Posted by Amber Ray on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:56:00 PST

My Top Ten Albums

Ten of my favorite albums of all time - not artist, not songs...albums should be complete little audio experiences. Tori Amos - Boys for PeleJon Anderson - Olias of SunhillowNirvana UnpluggedBest of t...
Posted by Amber Ray on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:37:00 PST

I Need A Lover (by Tara Howe)

I Need A Loverby Tara HoweA lover who knows earth, windand firethunder, spiritand rain(especially rain)one who can be washed cleanand knows the feelingof drinking down tearssweat soaked in saltlicked ...
Posted by Amber Ray on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:19:00 PST

Gawdamighty, it’s early...

    Eric’s up and on his way to work for a couple of hours in the April drizzley gray morning - I’m wide awake and about to bake Amish Friendship bread (Choc with caramel ch...
Posted by Amber Ray on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PST

magical quiz

My Pagan PracticeTradition2.36EclecticEcstatic-2.95SolemnMagical-0.89 SpiritualPagan Faith Practices Survey created by Otherworld ApothecaryFull Results: http://www.otherworld-apothecary.com/quiz/resul...
Posted by Amber Ray on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:16:00 PST

It must be spring...

...since Eric just walked in, beaming, and handed me a handmade willow wreath he wove for me of fresh green tendrils as he walked up to the clubhouse to meet me and take the car.He does this, each spr...
Posted by Amber Ray on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:17:00 PST

A poem by Pablo Neruda

..> I do not love you as if you were salt-rose or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. I ...
Posted by Amber Ray on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:16:00 PST

Vultures are one of my most favorite creatures...

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Posted by Amber Ray on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:21:00 PST

Thanksgiving Day

Woke at 7am with eric calling from work to wake me. He said there was a double rainbow in the western sky and that the weather was beautiful. I ran outside and searched blearily, my eyes hardly stayin...
Posted by Amber Ray on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:52:00 PST

Yawn, *stretch*....purrrrrr

I just watched the brown-coated back of my lover as he wheeled his way into the dark of the morning, triple-wrapped in flannel and leather against the chill. My eyes are all bleary from the tear-causi...
Posted by Amber Ray on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:09:00 PST