H Ideas

[pt_tangles]

 This is mostly a post-it for myself.  However, feel free to comment if you have ideas or suggestions.  The Pagan Blog Project is currently on the letter G, but it usually takes me at least a week to get a decent post put together, so I start writing my next letter about 10 days in advance.  Which puts me on H.

There are a lot of H topics I would love to write about, but I'm having trouble picking just one.  Here is the list so far:

Hugs, Healing and Pocket Humanity - this would be about how the interwebs have helped to usher in an age of anti-social society, and how more than the earth needing healing (the earth adapts), we need to work on healing humanity.  I would also throw in the free hugs video for heart-warming appeal.

Happiness - this would be about finding the simple joys in life, and how much I've learned about being happy from my daughter.

Harm - this would be a breakdown of what the adage 'a witch who can't hex can't heal'.  There are a lot of Sacred Mists brand priestesses around these days, and I am tempted to rub their faces in the dirty edges of the Craft (there are also a lot of people who are doing 'Shadow Work' that they think is about facing your fears and then whining when it leaks out into the rest of their lives - but that rant can wait for later).

Honey - I would love to explore the magical properties of honey and bees.  Went to the farmer's market yesterday, and they were selling great big buckets of it.  I really want to buy one just to say I have a BUCKET of honey!  

Organic Pagans: Healthy Living - this one is an idea held over from the LOTP website.  It would be an exploration on cooking from scratch, buying organic on a budget, getting exercise and how obesity is not a lifestyle choice.  There seems to be a contingent in the Pagan Community right now who think that because there is a call for healthier living that that means that everyone expects Pagans to be skinny, and that there is all this prejudice against plump Pagans all of a sudden.

Hair - this one would be a look at how hair has been prized historically, and how it relates to a person's self esteem, and different cultural/religious views on headcovering and whatnot.  It would totally start with a youtube video of the song from the musical 'Hair'.

Herbcrafting - this would be a fun, light hearted article detailing spring and herb crafts and gifts.

I guess it comes down to tone.  Now that I have followers, I'm starting to think of these articles as less for me and more from me.  I'm not sure I want to preach at cyberspace, and I'm not sure I want to steer clear of controversial subjects in an effort to keep from upsetting the neo-fluffs.  

I may also give up my tumblr account.  I haven't found anything that wasn't fluffy or goth-fluffy there at all.  It's kind of been a big waste of time.

Comments

[serpentrose.livejournal.com]

Speaking for myself I would love to see you write one on "harm", it would be a great antidote to all the fluffy BS that irks the crap out of me.

[pt_tangles]

They've even got a 'white hat society' thing going on where you put the image on your blog if you believe that people who try to talk to you about balance in the Craft are just meanies who like to try and bring other people down, and that if you want to believe that the Craft is all love and light and never gets messy, then no one should be allowed to try and tell you otherwise.

I may end up writing a few of these and just space them out a bit.

[serpentrose.livejournal.com]

Now I want to make a 'black hat society' for witches who have no fear of hexing and thing all this love and light crap is severely over rated.

[pt_tangles]

I'd join ;)