Moonbeams

Through the Eldertree Pagan Homeschooling yahoogroup I met a nice lady, who has just published the first issue of Moonbeams, her pagan homeschooling weekly reader-style newsletter. I visited it and promptly volunteered to copyedit it. Well, after some visiting, it looks like we may have a biweekly reader; two issues a month, six pages, should give us room to touch lightly on many pagan topics.

And we can have fun with it! The symbols, colors and foods of sabbats can form an "I Spy"-type picture or a word-search puzzle. A cryptogram might be two bars from "We All Come From the Goddess" or the Rede. Intro to tools; basic witchly etiquette ... and of course lots of solid info about herbs, aroma, wood and crystal correspondences and readers' favorite crafts or rituals.

I'm looking forward to it!

UPDATE: I never even got to finish the first issue, because the person who originated the idea is a person who can't spell or parse but refuses to admit it -- though she chose to characterize the split as taking place "because she couldn't work with Word newsletter templates." Religious differences actually formed the grounds. She's a Druid, and I never knew they were so prim, so uptight or so body-conscious until this experience. Consider a few topics she thought were unsuitable for a pagan homeschooling newsletter: "Skyclad -- do all pagans run around naked?" "Why does so much secrecy surround non-Christian traditions?" "Pantheons around the year," "Pagan Pride" -- ad nauseam.

Instead, "Moonbeams" now routinely makes pagans look like illiterate barbarians and basically tells homeschooled pagan kids that "spelling doesn't count and sentences don't have to be complete." Pfaugh. This is lifted directly from the Aug. o8 issue:

August, 2008

Staff Notes
A little note to the readers’ from our small staff.
Writers’ then editors listed in hiring order

TristA
Writer, Admin, Webmaster since: Aug. 07
In a year full of bright colors be sure to take notice and
show the bare earth spots attention; Give offering, or energy;
so it can be fruitful in spring. Remember it has made
the ultimate sacrifice to assure nature’s cycle continues.

(Yuck. Thanks a bunch, y'all. -- ahr)

UPDATE ENDS.


Today's Thick Air(C) is titled Imps of Lament, and it is (C) 2006 Angela Hunter Richardson, all rights reserved. Enjoy!