5.21.2010
I just got back home from my girlfriend's graduation ceremony. She lives about an hour from me. She's finally finished with grade school and is ready to move on to college. I graduated March 18th, 2010 however I walk to get my diploma next Friday, May 28th.
Tonight at the ceremony, during the school's Alma Matter when everyone pointed their right index finger up in the air, I noticed in the crowd one of the family members of the Seniors, who had a tattoo of a pentacle on his right hand, haha. He was open and proud!
Ok, so you're probably wondering why the title of my first blog is "The New Life." I came out of the "broom closet" to my family several years ago, and have been a practicing and studying Witch and Wiccan for 10 years this past Beltane (May 1st.) Growing up I always had to struggle through life to get to where I wanted to go....fought my parents all throughout school in order to graduate and successfully made it as the first member of my family to ever graduate with a High School Diploma! I went through the normal teasing some high schoolers go through, with the added rocks thrown and boots kicking from people finding out I'm pagan. I have always been out and proud about who I am. I wasn't always quite so loud about it as I was a very shy person, but I'm much more loud now! --As some of you in the Pagan Community may know!
I recently moved away from all of my birth family, and moved in with my spiritual family --my coven. My girlfriend and I are both members of the same coven. They were there for me during a bad time for me, when my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer and my grandmother was slowly and painfully dying from double-pneumonia with COP'D and Emphazima. Don't worry, my grandmother is now alive and kicking...for the most part. She's bedridden now and stuck in a nursing home permanently but I visit her more frequently these days. My mother caught the cancer in time to have it removed--this time--but she has a mass on her other lung and we're not sure what it is so we're still on guard.
Since moving, however, I have been accepted into college at Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Art Institute of Atlanta, I'm working on my driver's license, I'm helping my friend Laurie with her business MyDragonfly Rose Gifts --I'll touch more on that later on-- and I have been getting more and more active in the Pagan Community.
I joined a group known as NGS (North Georgia Solitaries) a while back and have thoroughly enjoyed conversing with them, and sharing sabbats with them. To-date, I have volunteered to work at the Pagan Pathways Festival in order to raise funds for the Pagan Assistance Fund, helping Pagan families in crisis. If you'd like to find out more about this, please visit the web site for the Festival at http://paganpathwaysfestival.eventbrite.com/ we are still accepting volunteers, so hurry! Volunteers get in free! (Except for the parking fee since the festival is in a state park, we have no control over that, but it's only $5.00)
Mydragonfly Rose Gifts (advertised by the wonderful Taryn Anu at www.twitchytidbits.com on her Podcast) is a small business selling hand-made one-of-a-kind semi-precious jewelry, as well as hand-made all-natural Face, Bath & Body products! Check us out at www.facebook.com/mydragonfly.rose.gifts ! You can check out our 2010 lineup for jewelry (more soon to come!) as well as samples of our Face, Bath & Body products.
For custom orders, you can email Laurie Bates (Owner) at lalalauralie@msn.com , Me (Jonathon Lowe) at MysticPhoenixTears@hotmail.com , the business email at MyDragonfly_Rose@msn.com , you can leave orders on our facebook via messages at www.facebook.com/mydragonfly.rose.gifts , or you can call us at 706-629-8155 and ask for Laurie Bates or Jonathon Lowe, but please PLEASE do not leave messages on the machine, there are teenage children in the house who are terrible at delivering messages!
Thank you for reading this blog --if you're still reading, I give you props! It wasn't the most exciting blog, but I promise things will get much more interesting as I start delving deeper into the goings-on of the Pagan Community.
Please check out Taryn Anu's pagan podcast Twitchy Tidbits and follow her blog at www.twitchytidbits.com , links to her podcast can be found on her blog, and she's now on Twitter! Follow her there to get constant updates on Twitchy Tidbits and goings-on in the pagan community from her end, as well as interviews, shop reviews, and wonderful segments on Pagan Parenting and so much more!
Brightest Blessings everyone, until next entry,
Jonathon Lowe -- "Sacred Little Flame"
