april 29, 2001
bealltainntide

Da
Datta: what have we given?
My friend, blood shaking my heart
The awful daring of a moment's surrender
Which an age of prudence can never retract
By this, and this only, we have existed
Which is not to be found in our obituaries
Or in memories draped by the benificent spider
Or under seals broken by the lean solicitor
In our empty rooms

- t.s. eliot
the wasteland, part V:
“what the thunder said”

What's New
(aka The Editor's Rant)
Nov 2, 2000
Samhaintide

Friends,

Please invoke, pray, send healing energy, work magic, or whatever your tradition does, for our dear friend Keith Knost, who was in a very serious car accident on Samhain. Keith is an astrologer, performer and gifted visual artist, as well as having been one of my first magical working partners (way back when we were teenagers). If you're not sure what to do, or don't feel right sending energy to someone you don't know, please send healing to me (I sure need it), or to our Goddess, Brighid, and we'll see that it gets where it needs to go. For more details...

Thank You Very Much,

A very shaken-up,

-Kathryn
kathryn@bandia.net

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What's New
(aka The Editor's Rant)
June 30, 2000
Aine Moon / Strong Sun Moon

Oh my. Dogs, dogs, dogs. Check out Ripley's page for the, er, scoop.

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What's New
(aka The Editor's Rant)
May 26 & 27, 2000
Thornblossom Moon / Belteine Moon

Framehaters, please don't hate me. You can still go to the non-frames version of this page. (Or back to the frames, if you change your mind.)

As you can see, we're slowly adding more bells and whistles to the site. For my personal sites, I've been fine on using straight HTML. But now that we're doing more work professionally, we've been brushing up on our Java, image tricks (rollovers, slicing, image maps - which we'll have more of when we switch to a server that allows them), and, yes, frames. Don't worry, I'm not going to convert the whole site to frames. But the format of this page seemed to lend itself to a frameset, and since I just wanted to show that we know how to do them...

On a related note -- we're looking for webdesign work. Most of our personal sites can be reached through our homepages, but here are some of the banners for the interlinked sites we've completely designed and crafted:

And we've also worked on the Hidden Hills of Western Massachusetts business and tourism site (for Positronic Design). We made a number of pages for the individual businesses in the Hidden Hills network, and I modified the background graphic (used on every page of the Hidden Hills site) to get it to tile more smoothly. (Actually, the background image could be even smoother if I'd taken a little more time with it.)

So, if you like the look of our work, and would like us to do some stuff for you, just drop us an e-mail.

(And for those of you who'd like to see us continue our work at Eilean nan Dóbhran, well, that will only happen if we can pay the bills...)

We've been a bit indecisive about where to park the new domain, bandia.net. So many options, so many webhosting contracts to wade through, and we've been a bit overwhelmed at narrowing it down. Perfectionists? Well, um, no comment. Hopefully you'll soon be reading this on the new site.

from the green and sunny woods,

-k

P.S. While I've been trying out some of these different JavaScripts on our site, I've noticed some of our download times were adversely affected. Whoops. (Like when the browser decided to load all the rollover images first and left the title letters, logo, and background for last. (grumble.) So if something is acting funky, please bear with us while we fiddle with the code. On a page as graphics-intensive as our index is, it just takes awhile for all the images to download. And since I don't want people to sit forever waiting for the title letters and opening images - I chose to have the rollovers load last. (Whereas on a more traditionally-structured site, say a business site, one may want to do it the other way around.)

With my head in the Java books,

- k

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What's New
(aka The Editor's Rant)
March 13, 2000
Windy Moon / Cailleachan Moon

I've finally added a new piece to the Actions page - a response to the Knight Initiative and the recent loss in California. Those who were involved in our ACT-UP, ActOut, and GCN adventures may recall the author, Eric Rofes, from his many years of activist journalism.

The whole Actions page and links need to be updated, to an overwhelming degree, but, well, life happens. I've just been really busy with other stuff. Actually, that's the case for most of us connected to this site. And I spent a lot of time over the fall and winter putting together another, related site (involving lots of scanning and graphics), so this one has been a bit neglected.

The wetlands thing moves along - some key victories, but the battle is not over yet.

Oh, about correspondence... I love to get intelligent, thoughtful letters from our readers, and do my best to respond whenever possible. If you haven't heard back, your message may have gotten lost in the shuffle (you should see the clutter in this office!), so feel free to write again and/or remind me and/or make sure you left a valid return address. One thing I can't do, though, is call strangers on the phone, especially long-distance, especially when I don't really know what's up with you and why I should do this. We may be spiritual, magical, and somewhat psychic around here, but cryptic woo-woo notes don't really do much for me. So, be upfront, clear, and real - it works much better for all of us.

We've secured our new domain name, bandia.net. Now we just have to decide where we want to park it. We've run out of room on CompuServe, and are exploring other ISP and webspace options. We'll have a forwarding thing once we're settled, but bear in mind that this URL address will be changing before too long.

from the spring-starting-to-be-sprung woods,
with buds on the trees and crocuses peering up from the mud,
ducks splashing in the swamp and redwing blackbirds trilling in the twilight.

-k

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What's New
(aka The Editor's Rant)
February 4, 2000
ImbolcTide

I've done some major revisions to Síla na Géige - Sheela na Gig and Sacred Space. The text is only changed in a few places, but I have substantially changed my views on some of the historical theories concerning the Sheelas. I have also added a couple more photos (real, historical Sheelas on standing stones!) and updated some links.

One of the fabulous things about the Internet, and this website, is that I'm now in touch with Sheela scholars from all over the world -- a gift I did not have when I wrote the original version of the article. Consequently, I'm now revising some of my theories. This is common in historical research, and Pagans will be glad to know that I am now questioning the possible biases of Ronald Hutton, who was a major source for my initial research. I now feel that Hutton has neglected key evidence. Whether this neglect is due to lack of awareness -- he, too, was dealing with a largely-unresearched area in writing about the Sheelas -- or due to the alleged anti-Pagan and anti-Woman agenda of which many feminist scholars have accused him, I cannot say. The problem may simply be that he tried to cover too much material at once, and so only skimmed the surface in some areas.

What I will say about all of us doing research in this area, is that up until very recently very little was written about the Sheelas, and almost none of it from a scholarly viewpoint. In the US you could find almost nothing on them. And what little material was available was often heavily biased towards romantic fantasies. So perhaps, in an effort to bring some balance to the debate, there was a tendency, on my part, and Hutton's, to swing too far to the contradictory and more conservative of archaeological theories.

But now things are different. We e-mail and e-publish our data, we share our experiences, images and theories. Research has speeded up to an astonishing degree. For those of us willing to be flexible and open-minded, to have courage, humility, compassion and the ability to ride the waves of change, it is truly an exciting time.

Imbolc Blessings,

kathryn

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What's New
(aka The Editor's Rant)
January 20, 2000
Leo Full Moon / Lunar Eclipse

Today it came to our attention that we had unknowingly violated our own copyright policy (!). (THE KARMA! THE KARMA! THE SCREAMING WEASELS! AAAAGH!!!) Apparently, the webcrafter for the Celtic Heritage Webring had provided us with a graphic which he did not have permission to use or reproduce. The graphic, of the Welsh Dragon and Stonehenge, is by the talented artist Jen Delyth. Jen owns the copyright to this image (Megalith copyright ©1992 Jen Delyth), and members of the webring, and other webcrafters, have no right to use it without her express written permission. I extend my sincerest apologies to Jen for this copyright violation.

Please visit Jen's website for more of her lovely Celtic artwork:

Keltic Designs featuring original artwork by Welsh artist Jen Delyth

(And by the way, it's not a free graphics site, so don't "borrow" any of the images on her site or in her catalogue. How about supporting her talent and buying some of her cool stuff, o.k.? Thank you. We now return to our regularly-scheduled programming.)

(Links to the sites of graphics providers can be found on our links page.)

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What's New
(aka The Editor's Rant)
September 29, 1999
Ban-sidheMoon / Ban-nighe Moon

death crones
spinoffs, sequels and scary scary poetry

welcome the darkness....

love,

k

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What's New
(aka The Editor's Rant)
September 22, 1999
Ban-sidheMoon / Ban-nighe Moon

I've finally given in to the pressure to increase our web hits. I've added front doors for Moonstone, the death crones, and Sheela World. I've always found this practice to be rather annoying, if not downright obnoxious, so it's odd to finally be doing it.

What this means is, our banners now open up on a banners-only page, with an ENTER prompt at the top of the page. It means one more click before you actually reach the site. But this way more exchange banners upload, and in return our banners get displayed on many more websites around the world. I do have to admit that doing this has already increased our readership, which is gratifying.

If you find the delay of clicking through a front page to be just too obnoxious, feel free to change nothing and just continue to link directly to the main page(s). But if you want to help increase our visibility on the web, you could choose to change your links to the FrontPage URLs. It's totally up to you, our friends who kindly link to this site. If you want them, the new addresses are with the banners on our banners and links page.

creeping towards professionalism,

your bemused webcrafter,

kathryn )0(

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What's New
(aka The Editor's Rant)
September 12, 1999
BansidheMoon / Bannighe Moon

Some strange additions to the Sheela Saga -- The Sínebharr Sheela. And, interwoven with the Síla saga, for those of you who've been following the Cinnabar story -- The Wheel Turns.

We're participating in the Goddess 2000 project -- a grassroots art project of making Goddess images and encouraging others to do so. Whether we'll do anything public in person for the event, I'm not sure. We already do public stuff through this site, and of course there's the images we make here at home. But I'm planning on collaborating with others to get more of the Celtic Goddess designs out in 3-d, so this is a good excuse to get moving on that.

The board of health meeting went well. Now it's lots more letter-writing and grassroots work in the community.

agitating, educating and organizing,

with love,

kathryn )0(

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What's New
(aka The Editor's Rant)
August 31, 1999
Cricket Moon / Aster Moon

I've uploaded Síla na Géige - Sheela na Gig and Sacred Space. This is basically the article that was published as Síla of the Trees in the “Sacred Spaces, Sacred Places” issue of Sagewoman Magazine (Winter '98/'99). However, I have slightly expanded the text, and the article is now profusely illustrated with additional drawings and lots of photos of the Sheelas. I'm still tweaking it a bit as I come across new bits of info. and images and links.

The bad news is that the planning board accepted Guilford's proposal for the cursed railway car unloading depot. The good news is that they still have to get approval by the Board of Health. The BoH seems much more critical and aware of how suicidal this proposed eco-disaster could be. So, the fight continues.

Tired, but not giving up,

Kathryn

(Oh, and needless to say, any help is still needed -- to stop Guilford, and healing to keep me at least somewhat functional.)

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What's New
(aka The Editor's Rant)
August 11, 1999
Darkmoon / Solar Eclipse in Leo

It's been a year now since Cinnabar leapt the gate between the worlds. I've cut the mourning braid out of my hair. We're re-configuring the altars. And as I type this Sheena Cinnabar the miracle puppy is doing her bizarre grodel-howl of joy as she tussles with Mara over a toy (pictures at 11).

So, her page is still there, but the link has been moved down under the ritual picture, along with the links to our other personal pages. The wheel turns.

The thing with the rail company and the town planning board just gets weirder and weirder. Strange smalltown political machinations. Freakouts and resignations in the summer heat. Fits of drama that just screw things up more. Postponing and postponing any real decision. Battles of attrition and endurance.

Hanging in there,

Kathryn

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What's New
(aka The Editor's Rant)
July 16, 1999
Waterlily Moon / Dragonfly Moon

Still doing what we can on the Guilford thing. The town planning board keeps postponing the final vote. So we wait, and work on it on other levels...

Thank you so much to those who've been helping out, and who've sent words of encouragement. You honor the Spirits and touch our hearts.

With love,

from the Isle of the Fierce Otters,

kathryn )0(

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What's New
(aka The Editor's Rant)
May 24, 1999
Moon of the Big Green Leaves

Not much time to write. And apologies to all awaiting e-mail. The reason is:

We're fighting to save our lake, wetlands (and the town's water supply) from evil industrial developers who want to pave over the aquifer that supplies two towns with drinking water. Not to mention the impact this would have on the wildlife and spirits. Any spells, energy, or prayers to preserve this watershed are greatly appreciated. Or if anyone has dirt on the environmental record, and lawsuits involving, Guilford Industries - owners of the Boston and Maine Railroad - we could use your immediate input. Or if you have access to a law library and want to help. We have some leads, but need more specifics on their record. For more info check out: http://www.devenswatch.org/

from the Isle of the Fierce Otters,

kathryn )0(

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What's New
(aka The Editor's Rant)
March 8, 1999
International Women's Day
Windy Moon / Cailleachan Moon

Well well well...

Things have been very interesting around here over the past few months. Tiring, and at times horribly trying and draining, but the outcome has been fabulous, miraculous and very healing for us all. There will be much news when I finally have time to sit down and scan in some pictures and write things up. But, the (very) short story is that a number of amazing things have happened, and there are now more of us here. Including two dogs, one with a very familiar face and energy, sleeping at my feet as I write this.

I've added in a link to the AACT Bulletin Board, since I've been hanging out there recently (when I have time to hang out online at all). Stop on by and add your thoughts on Celtic Pagan matters, ask some questions, or just lurk.

Not a lot to add on the Actions front, since I've been busy with our reconfigured, larger pack. Politically, we've been focusing on some of our local elections -- seeing how grassroots organizing can work with local democratic politics. I know, I know, It's more mainstream than other stuff we've done... but in order to protect our environment, especially our surrounding wetlands, water supply, and native wildlife, we've discovered the necessity of figuring out how neighborhood, town, and state government works, and how to use the process for the protection of the Earth. We've thought globally for a long time, now we're finally doing more of the Acting Locally thang.

It's been about a year now since we started putting together this website. In celebration of that we'll be doing some updates and improvements when things settle down a bit.

With Love and Blessings,

From the House of the Singing Dogs,

kathryn )0(

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What's New
(aka The Editor's Rant)
January 3, 1999
Grian Moon

Updated the Actions page a bit, despite my cynicism. Did some spritzing-up here and there with the links and navigation.

Out here in the icy woods, a pensive,

Kathryn

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What's New
(aka The Editor's Rant)
January 1, 1999
Grian Moon

Our new, animated crones banner was looking kind of strange when it came through the WPR banner exchange, but I think the problem is mostly fixed now.

I figure this problem (blurred images and acid-trip-type "trails") was either due to the optimization I've done here, removing "redundant" pixels, or because the WPR system compressed it even more. (Or it could've been due to unknown and unfathomable mystical causes beyond our mere mortal abilities to comprehend - these are the death crones we're talking about, here...) So, I've simplified the choreography and reworked it down to 20K, and we'll see how that goes. If this doesn't work I'll ditch the compression, but that will put it up at 50K. Let me know how it looks if it pops up on your page.

If you want to use the crones banner to link to us, but it doesn't look right after you download it to your system and post it on your page, and you want to try the 50K version, just e-mail me or leave a note in the housebook and I'll add the larger version to the banners page. Or, if none of that works, I can make a small version with no pixel loss, but the choreography of the dancing crones will be much less complex. ("kick! kick!")

Oh, and we won another award ("Nancy's Celtic Award of Excellence"). Hopefully she will update her recipients page soon to reflect this.

I'm still too sickened and overwhelmed with the mainstream political situation to update the actions page - I can't keep up with the weirdness, it's all happening so fast and creepily. Spent X-mas watching Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam did a brilliant job! It's just about perfect...) and that helped to put it all in perspective (flash the grimace/smile. maintain...).

Here amidst the snow, and surprised to find myself turning into such a techno-geek (but no lizard tracks in the snow, yet),

A bewildered and bemused,

Kathryn

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What's New
(aka The Editor's Rant)
December 16, '98
Long Nights Moon

We now have a crones banner. The file is a bit bigger than the standard, due to the animation (30k and change vs the usual 20K limit). If this is too unwieldly but you still want to use it, let me know your upper data limit, and I'll pull it apart and make a more compressed version.

At the moment I feel speechless, sickened, and dumbfounded about the bombing of Iraq. I think these bombings mainly kill and injure civilians, and make Hussein's regime stronger. It's p.i. to say so, but I still think assasination is the more humane option. Anyway.

I was going to point everyone to the frequent updates at Censure and Move On, but right now I'm too confused to know what's happening next. I guess that's the point.

A cynical and confused,

Kathryn

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What's New
(aka The Editor's Rant)
December 11, '98
Long Nights Moon

Greetings, from the unseasonably warm Northeastern Forest,

Some more re-structuring recently...

The Actions page has been updated and restructured.

Let's vote Matthew Shepard TIME magazine's Man of the Year.

We won another award, I think -- A Writer's Choice Literary Journal has named us as among "the best published and 'undiscovered' writers and poets on the web."

I don't know what's going on with AvatarSearch... we have been a "recommended site" for months now, but now we don't seem to be. Hmmm.... I'm not sure how their system works, so I don't know if it's an oversight or if they changed their minds.

There's some other goodies here and there, so look around.

Hope you like our new background and graphics.

Slainte Mhath!

Kathryn

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What's New
(aka The Editor's Rant)
November 28, '98
Long Nights Moon

Bandia Dhuit!

Some slight re-structuring recently...

Webrings are now on their own page. Kathryn's Sheela na Gig / Síla na Géige article, in the Winter issue of SageWoman, is currently available on newstands, or, preferably, from feminist bookstores or SageWoman themselves (tell 'em we sent you!).

The Actions page needs updating, which will happen in the next few days. Censure and Move On and Mike Moore are both regularly updating their sites. So, even if we get behind here, you can still find their newest updates via our links.

There have been some recent happenings in the inquiry into David Chain's death -- follow the links, and we'll have more here soon.

Slainte Mhath!

Kathryn

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What's New
(aka The Editor's Rant)
November 5, '98
Samhain Moon / Frost Moon / Ancestor Moon

As we say on the index page, we're updating this page fairly often. We have more links --some on the links page, others dispersed throughout the site-- more Activism-related stuff, another article or two, another review, and various other things here and there.

On a more personal note, we're doing better, and even starting to think about adding a new pack member.

Samhain Blessings,

Kathryn

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What's New
(aka The Editor's Rant)
October 15, '98
Bean Nighe Moon / Bean Sidhe Moon

Yes... Still doing that mourning thing. But in the meantime, we also have...

Two new action updates:

-- an Earth First! activist was “accidentally” killed by loggers in the Headwaters Forest. Support is needed to keep his death from being hushed up and going unpunished.

-- And Michael Moore's proposal to boot the Right Wing influence out of Congress.

Some more links.

We won an award.

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What's New
(aka The Editor's Rant)
September 25, '98
Bean Nighe Moon / Bean Sidhe Moon

Moonstone Circle is still in mourning.

But slowly, life begins to find a new rhythm. The heart begins to heal a bit, achingly easing itself into a new configuration -- growing pains as it molds around the empty space. Feelings of guilt, surprise, confusion when tiny bits of the hollow pain start to fill in with acceptance, and even sometimes happiness -- which seemed impossible only a month ago.

New insight and profound gifts of magic bring tears to our eyes frequently. The poltergeist-puppy events slow and then pretty much cease. All signs now are of her in the Otherworld, growing young again, and needing to be free from our interference. At least for now.

What it means to be so deeply bonded and then ripped apart. The Mysteries surround us.

The candles on the altar keep burning, the daily offerings bringing us closer to all our Ancestors. As the Samhain-Gate starts to shift, perhaps stirred by all these smaller deaths around us -- the leaves beginning to change, the cold nights killing off the insects, the animals and birds preparing for migration, hibernation, or life amid the snow -- we feel a deepness, a centeredness, that we've never felt in quite this way. With one who is so close to us, so much a part of us, so recently among the Ancestors now this power moves through us stronger than ever. The veil is definitely thinning, and now and then we suddenly sense our beloved dead drawing near.

Thank you to all those who have been there for us, for the visits and calls and e-mails. We're not always good about responding right now, but I think I'm right in assuming you understand.

There's a new addition to the Actions page. Do check it out.

The LRY Memorial Room is open. Now we just need to furnish it.

And I've finally tackled the “Can you send me more information about your group?” question.

With Much Love, and the Deep Rhythms of Mourning,

kathryn

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What's New
(aka The Editor's Rant)
August 16, '98
Taillte Moon / Macha Moon

Moonstone Circle is in mourning.

Cinnabar Art-Ré

January 25, 1984 -- August 8, 1998

What's New
(aka The Editor's Rant)
July 20, '98
Waterlily Moon / Dragonfly Moon

Update on the Florida Fires:

Thank you thank you thank you (!!!) to everyone who helped on this. The state of emergency ended a couple days ago, and my extended family's lands were spared. They got covered in ashes when the fires came real close, but the woods did not burn! The rains came in from over the sea, and it's been raining and raining and raining. Aaah...

So, we've eased up and let go of the weatherworking. I've decided to add an actions sections to this site, as response was so positive. Check out the Wolves Action.

Love and Blessings, and mucho thanks from my Ancestors, Clann, and the Nature Spirits,

kathryn )0(

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Action Alert
July 5, 1998

The fires currently raging in Florida are endangering the homes of Pagans, and threatening to decimate Pagan lands of Sacred Trees and Wildlife. If you have any weatherworking skills, PLEASE help NOW.

If you're not a skilled weatherworker, please pray, to Whomever you know/work with who is appropriate, for rain to come in from the Sea and drench the land.

Weatherworkers, please remember that the land is crying for RAIN, but that we must not call the lightning. If lightning comes with the rain, we must work to direct it to areas where it will not start any more fires.

For help in focusing, http://www.goes.noaa.gov/floridafires.html has satellite infrared images of the affected areas. I particularly recommend the enhanced color images on page http://oses1.wwb.noaa.gov/Events/Current/, as they show the areas of fire clearly, and it's easier to tell the moisture-bearing clouds from the smoke trails.

http://volusia.org/firenews.htm also has firemaps and updates, these are drawn daily by local activists and show the roads and community names, which the satellite images do not.

Also Headline News and The Weather Channel are running updates on the hour and half hour round the clock.

Thank you SO MUCH to those of you who have been working on this. The Southern branch of our tribe/clann has lands and homes down there, where we have worked magic in the past and will continue to work in the future, but it will be very very sad if the trees and creatures do not survive to work with us. And if the fire takes our people's homes, they may lose the land entirely, leaving the scarred land vulnerable to developers. We don't want to see this happen -- our Mother Earth has so few areas of wilderness left where we can pay homage to Her and where Her creatures can hide -- we can't afford to lose any more. The herons, snakes, crows, deer, horses, frogs, vultures, and so many more species, some endangered, inhabit these groves of pine and oak that are right now burning or in the path of the fires. They need your help.

We have been deeply moved by the results we've seen so far --our magic is making a difference. Even one focused person can help a great deal. Please join us. Pour out water upon the maps, Sing the rain in, Drum the rain in, Dance the rain in, Call it to you wet and healing, Call it down till the land is saturated and sated and at peace.

Though the situation has improved in some areas over the last day or so, the land is still parched and crying for help. There's a storm over the Ocean that can be called in to put the fires out. Let's use our gifts to make a difference.

In the name of the Trees and the Snakes and the Storm Hags,
and with much gratitude and love,

Kathryn Price Theatana )0(

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What's New
(aka The Editor's Rant)
June 9, '98
Strong Sun Moon / Aine Moon

"What's New?" -- don't ask. if you find it, it's your problem. don't say i didn't warn you.

(feel the power of the darkness...)

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What's New
(aka The Editor's Rant)
May 28, '98
Strong Sun Moon / Aine Moon

I've been feeling a bit guilty that I don't have more of the CR stuff up. Rest assured, it will come when the muse strikes me. I think it's largely that it's much easier to play with archive files and put up old death crones panels and other graphics than to commit to a final version of these unfinished articles and invocations I have sitting around (not to mention The Book --which may be mutating into two or three Books... I won't go there right now). And of course the creeping professionalism thing is a factor -- now that I've become more accustomed to getting paid for my writing I usually want to see if I can publish it elsewhere before posting it for free.

Another factor is that I want to get more of the links up --to fill out this network of artists I've promised to include-- not to mention the Quest / game part of the site, and it's simply taking longer than I thought.

My priority now is to get more of the death crones material, including the exclusives, scanned in. Then I'll try and focus on the CR stuff and the Quest. There's a money motivation for this, too, as we're going to be selling the death crones sets again, along with a couple of new episodes (one of which will only be available with the sets, not even on the website). We've also had some requests for Geas postcards again, which I haven't decided on. I'd like to print up another bunch, but have to decide if I want to do it myself or enlist a printer who can do a higher image-quality on glossy cardstock.

I've also been running these mysterious fevers, which has slowed me down even more.

And I've realized that one of the reasons my rant page isn't up yet is that I've been putting some of what I'd say there on this page ;)

Oh, the Belteine Swan appeared at dusk on Belteine, hung out for three days eating oat bread and hissing at Cinnabar, and then disappeared into the mist. Really. I was impressed.

Beannachd Bhandiathan Leibh,

--kathryn

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What's New
as of May 11, '98
ThornBlossom Moon / Belteine Moon

There's a new, animated death crones graphic (work-in-progress, but I wanted to see how it looks on the web), and another episode in the saga.

We had a visit from the Belteine Swan (really -- one of us will try to explain later).

I've been tweaking the design here and there fairly often (much more often than I feel like writing these updates...) --k

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What's New
as of April 17, '98
Moon of the Singing Frogs

The first episode of the death crones is up, and the Geas ad, and one of Paul's tales.

Graphics and backgrounds are springing up all over the place, like the spring greens peering out from the dead leaves here at Eilean nan Dóbhran. The frogs in the swamp are singing their little green hearts out, and there has even been a snake-sighting (!). So far no one has fallen into the still-quite-cold lake, so we haven't had to play Rescue.

I've replaced the "I have been..." background with a more compressed version. It's not as colorful or deep, but it doesn't take 7 minutes to load like the other one did. (O.K, it was only 5 minutes on a good day, 2 with a very fast computer. But I figured at that rate very few people were actually seeing it. Correct me if I'm wrong.)

As usual, more to come when we get around to it, assuming we're not too distracted by Spring.

A bemused, --k /l\

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What's New
as of March 21, '98
Latha na Cailleach
(A snowy and cold Spring Equinox in New England)

At this point, it's all pretty new.

As you can see, we're still building this site. Coming soon: more articles, essays, poetry, pictures, and...SATIRE(!). Some will be exclusive to this site, not yet published in any form (including some "lost" death crones material, and an episode of our spinoff -- Warrior Maiden).

The "Quest" part of this site will become more obvious in time. Hint: we're currently constructing some puzzles via the links --you'll have to work at finding those exclusive death crones (and other satire) pages.

We're still polishing up some of our graphic techniques and finishing up some original pieces for the site, so expect it to look better in the coming weeks/months.

We're updating fairly often, so if a link or file isn't there yet, check back in a week or so. And don't forget to hit the reload / refresh button on your browser.

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