faire

I have my very own bodice that actually fits! And it should continue to fit even as I lose more weight. Sadly my dance bodice will never(*so mote it be*) fit again. I would have to take it apart almost completely to refit it to me *sigh* and that just doesn't ever go well.

Pendragon bodices are NICE! I may have to acquire one of my own. Currently borrowing one from owllady13. She has it broken in well from several years of working out at the faire here. Still it'd be nice to have one of my own chosing.

The Honey looks really nice in a knee length cote. He could wear pants with it instead of tights and be comfortable, aside from the whole heat issue. I think I'm going to have to make him one. He still needs a kilt though. Manorites! Don't forget to ask J about borrowing his. Hmm, Honey in a kilt.

Thank the Gods that I have today off. I hate to work with cramps like this. I'm going to curl up now.

not directed at anyone I know, just irritated

So I'm pagan. Its not hard to figure out if you want to. I pay my taxes with a little help from the Honey. I go to work. I see doctors when I need to. I own jeans, tennis shoes, fingernail polsih, and makeup. I have no problems with that. I do not own a pentacle that I can wear. I have no problem with that either. Anyone who wanted to know at any job I have had in the past four years knew I was pagan and knew that if they wanted to know more or why or anything else they could just ask me. The strangest question ever asked of me was "What do you get out of your religion?" What does anyone get? Obviously some connection that they value to the greater being or whatever you wanna call it. I don't hide the fact that I'm pagan. I don't feel the need to flaunt it either. I have never gotten any grief from anyone over being pagan. Maybe I'm in an area that I don't need to worry about it much though I would think the midwest would be. Maybe I'm good at choosing who to tell and who to avoid said subject with. Maybe I'm just good at allowing other people to not feel threatened simply because I feel something differently than they do.

All that being said. Pagans bother me. Not as much as Christians do on the whole. But there are all kinds of pagans that I will not associate with becasue of their inflammatory views and their need to see themselves as persecuted. Really any person who is willing to make grand sweeping statements about an entire group is always going to be wrong. It makes me think less of them. Pagans who do this really upset me because they are including me in those statements which are most likely not true in my case. Yes there are individual pagans out there who are being persecuted because of their beliefs. There are far more Islamic people out there just in this country that are being persecuted for their beliefs and the country in which they or their parents were born than there are pagans probably as a whole.

Any person who allows themselves to be categorized in any way runs the risk of being persecuted simply by being a part of that group of people. When you voluntarily place yourself in a group of people that are known for being on the fringes of society anyway? You are inviting it by throwing it in their faces. The only way to get beyond the category is to be yourself. Help the people who are scared of "other" learn that you at least are not something to be scared of. That at least in you, other is just other and not something that will threaten who they are. If you cannot refrain from threatening who they are and what they believe in, do not be suprised when they act exactly as you taught them to.