I have spent the last 25 years learning to cook…. but tonight spinning around the kitchen contentedly and almost absentmindedly throwing things into the pot to leave overnight to make a stock, I realised I felt as close to *intentional* witchcraft as I ever feel. I am in my element. I don’t really consider myself…
Author: meshyma
I’m Jeni. I’m bisexual, I’m enby, my pronouns are they/them. I’m also married with 3 children. I’m late-discovered autistic with adhd which makes life SO MUCH FUN. I’m a British mongrel, living in Denmark, trying to learn the language. I deal with frequent stress, depression, anxiety, burnout, and overwhelm; which means I frequently disappear from blogging while I reset.
I home educate / unschool my children, not to keep them away from the world, but so they have more of a chance to be part of it and understand it.
I’m an intuitive solitary hedgewitch, sometimes guided by Elen of the Ways and Hekate, and paying attention to Loki’s chaotic energy; living in the boundary between town and countryside, happiest in the daylight with trees, collector of tiny things, rocks and shiny things, and moss; happiest at night with candles and gin and books. I do not “summon stuff”. I am an artist and I create to stay functional enough to stay in existence.
I am anti-racist, anti-fascist, anti-white-supremacy, anti-sexist, anti-ableist. I am pro-BLM, pro-vaccinations, pro-masking, pro-Europe, and pro-choice. You can keep your racist sexist ableist transphobia out of here.
New year new start new blah blah blah
I blog for me and I need to remind myself of that. If people read or follow or enjoy that’s great but as soon as I start thinking about THAT, the demand pressure level skyrockets (in my head) and triggers a vicious cocktail of demand avoidance and imposter syndrome and unattainable perfectionism (putting on a…
Summer colours
Today’s colours make me happy
Workroom
Today we started creating my workroom. I have been deliberate in calling it my workroom because if I’ve learned nothing else these past few years, it’s that words are important, your choice of words is important, how you frame things is important. Words have power. All my crafting and creating and mending and fixing stuff…
Lockdown
The UK is in lockdown, Denmark is under movement restriction, schools are all closed. One of the best things to have come out of this from my perspective though is the sudden plethora of free online resources for children’s education. I gathered a handful of pages for us to follow over the next few weeks…
Happy places
Last night was one of those times where things unexpectedly converge in the most lovely of ways, instead of their usual trick of trying to take you down. I felt all kinds of peaceful. I’ve been listening to The Unthanks, they did the music for the recent Worzel Gummidge adaptation, to their Scarecrow Knows and…
Fredlundhus 