It was in addition very satisfying to be able to explain recent developments, e.g. the way he and an interdisciplinary team discovered the execution site, now suitably memorialized--which he was kind enough to show me when giving a personal tour a few years ago
Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us. ~ Anne Lamott 💛
I went to historic Evansville's Willard Library this evening about Victorian Spiritualism and Mesmerism in Evansville.
The lecture primarily focused on this event below, which led to a trial and conviction of someone who accused a local woman of being a witch, convinced someone to cut of a piece of her dress, made that into a soup, and gave it to the bewitched, who supposedly got well afterwards.
I ALSO encourage everybody to do the same. No dog required- and you spend some quality time out of doors! (Don't forget the sunscreen, though.) Happy Saturday!
Baking Bread with a Kitchen Witch ~ I began to believe that peace goes into the making of the bread as well. By the time I made the first loaf, I knew it with certainty, and I worked that peace and some other magics into the dough as I kneaded it on the counter in the hearth center of my own home.
“How the fuck can there be anti vaccine “witches?” If you disagree with binding an invisible malignant entity into a single drop of potion that seals a subject’s blood against the full force of that very same entity’s curse then you are not and can never be a witch you’re just a karen who buys rocks”
-- @bogleech
The only mammal that can fly; they see with their ears; they help produce some great food, control pests, & pollinate flowers; and they're just plain fun! 🦇 🖤