That respect is earned is said often. What’s not said so often though, is that loyalty also has to be earned. Though it’s a good thing when people give each other basic human respect, and people who share common values, some degree of loyalty, it’s not a given. Especially in…
It is something all children of Oya, especially if you are intersex, nonbinary, or otherwise variable in gender, have to cope with if we survive long enough. Since there aren’t many elders left to discuss these things in English out in public, and more people are Vodun or at least…
Spiritual counseling has afforded me the opportunity to talk to many people having emotional problems. Most people who come to me are the usual laypersons in need of spiritual services that involve maintenance or problem solving of the sort of dealing with external threats or proactive protection. Many come with…
Again, I’m compelled to say that Israel has the worst criminals in the world. I don’t mean worst as in a higher level of atrocity. I mean worst as in the most incompetent, transparent, and overall idiotic. I’ve already written about my former landlord’s greed being exploited by a “friend”…
In the 1980’s, while I was in high school, witchcraft was being castrated. In the 1990’s, while I was in the military, and then marrying, and then becoming a new mother, witchcraft was given a hysterectomy. Then in the first decade and a half of the new millennium, witchcraft was…
