Fer Cryin' Out Loud...

The blog and everything else has had to be very back-burner all year in 2011, thanks to ongoing care-giving for two 90-year-old parents with dementia and many other health issues. It is currently December, and I have just posted comments from March, which, to put it bluntly, sucks. Everything I have wanted to get more involved in this year, from joining a Women's Drumming Circle, to belly dancing with my library friends to checking out a local Morris Dancing side and attending some Pagan celebrations has basically gone down the chute, because for the better part of this year, there has been one hospital stay a month for my father, who was also recovering January-June from surgery on a hip fracture sustained at the very beginning of 2011. Right now, it's taking three family members and a hired caregiver to keep everybody safe and on their meds regimens, so it has been crazy, to say the least.

Because there are the inevitable family issues that crop up-- like one of my siblings picking fights with other family members so as to dodge both care-giving for her parents as well as making hospital visits to see her own father-- there have been a number of times this year when I have been emotionally maxed-out. I am keeping myself sane and calm by meditating, doing yoga and going for walks, writing, and doing various art projects in my spare time. The art projects also provide me with some much-needed distraction relief when I am the on-site caregiver. I am still delusional enough to think that I will be able at some point to return to more active blogging, and I have some items, both amusing and serious, that have flowed from my pens, pencils and paints this year that I would like to put out there, because yes, I am still alive and kicking.

I have also done more than my fair share of magickal shapeshifting over the last two years, and while I still retain a profound interest in all the things that Martian Tigress/Pink Lodge has covered, other seeds have sprouted as well. Because of this, what I will probably do is put up a new blog (still at Blogger) and leave the two older ones up until I've reconnected with the few folks who've been wondering where the heck I've been. Once everyone knows where the new blog is, then I'll pull down the old ones. Right now, I am shooting for April/May, right around Beltane, to start up the new Art/Writing/Magick/Weirdness emporium, and I am determined to push to make it happen, because this last year, I was pulled into so many parental health crises, I wasn't even able to follow the year's crop circle season very closely. This was also a major piece of suckitude, and I really don't want to go on losing bits and pieces of what makes my life fun simply because I'm trying to do the right thing for both my parents as they approach final relocation to the Isles of the Blessed.

I vow to take a look at comments to this blog once a month starting in February 2012, so that I can keep in closer touch prior to the April/May shapeshift, and I am working on art and written stuff to upload so the new place will be lush. Here's hoping 2012 will be far more fun and far less frantic than 2011...