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THE WHEEL TURNS: A PORTAL OPENS INTO A STRANGE NEW YEAR

by angeliska on December 31, 2016

We are coming through the tunnel of winter, passing through the portal into a new time. The sun is being reborn, and with it, a new day – & a hopefulness. It’s almost gone, this wild and unpredictable year that (…)

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New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree

by angeliska on December 31, 2012

The turning of year draws close, we pause, here at the limen between what’s done and what’s to come – the snake’s lips meet its own tail and we ride the circle, blind and naked as babes. The reflexive curl (…)

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New Year's Redux

by angeliska on January 21, 2010

Ahoy! New photos have surfaced from our New Year’s Eve adventures in the Texas Hill Country, from Mr. Chip Warren, esteemed gentleman and fantastic photographer. Following are a handful of my favorites, but the full set can be seen here: (…)

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The Witches' New Year

by angeliska on November 3, 2009

Our Halloween began at twilight, as the last meager trickle of trickertreaters drifted off, leaving us well stocked with gummi body parts + mini almond joys for life. Or at least a little while, knowing the sweet-tooth of certain fellas (…)

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Lone Grove New Year

by angeliska on January 2, 2009

It’s become a New Year’s tradition for me and mine to go out to Lone Grove, a ghost-town near Llano and my ancestral home. My aunt and uncle live there now, and before them my grandparents and great-grandparents lived there. (…)

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The New Year

by angeliska on December 31, 2007

The Blanchette is a goat-fairy who appears on New Year’s Eve to bestow blessings upon a household. She comes bearing two babies, one is sweet and rosy-cheeked and crowned with a garland of blossoms. The other child is sickly, wan (…)

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Z'OTZ NEW YEARS SOIREE!

by angeliska on December 30, 2003

Ahoy there Crescent City Mateys! We will be closing Z’otz at 7:00 pm on New Year’s Eve and be having an intimate soiree starting likely around nine. Bring party favors and art supplies. It should be luscious and flavorful. Speakeasy (…)

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A Rosy Full Wolf Moon Unfurls: Year of the Earth Dog

by angeliska on January 1, 2018

It’s the dawn of a New Year in a few hours, and instead of loading up the caravan and heading for the hills like I normally do on this day, I’m curled up in front of a space heater in (…)

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R.I.P. DAVID BOWIE – A Paean For The Goblin King

by angeliska on January 14, 2016

After my last sweet visitor had headed home the night of the 10th, after a perfect and beautiful birthday, full of friends and children and kindness and sweet medicine and pierogis, I sat alone at my kitchen table covered in (…)

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OWL WELCOME

by angeliska on December 31, 2015

On this last day of the old year, I find myself a little at a loss for words. Or perhaps, with too much to say to even know where to begin. Sometimes, I just get all worded out. I talk (…)

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