{"id":19402,"date":"2019-03-01T01:10:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T06:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=20697"},"modified":"2019-02-27T14:50:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T19:50:37","slug":"the-sober-pagan-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2019\/03\/01\/the-sober-pagan-11\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sober Pagan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Packing Up To Move<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s\nstill only February as I write this but in ten days it\u2019ll be the\nfirst Monday of March and I will be moving into a new apartment. I\nam so excited but I have to admit that I am just a bit overwhelmed! \nI have all of my books packed and most of my fine china and\ncollectibles. I still have to pack up my kitchen \u2013 except for what\nI\u2019ll need on a daily basis until moving day. And all my pictures\nwill have to come off the walls here. There were lots of holes\npunched in the walls in this place I\u2019m in now \u2013 the people who\nlived here before me argued a lot and apparently like to throw things\nat each other \u2013 so I covered the walls with dozens of pictures to\ncover up all the holes and marks from their stupidity. I\u2019ll miss\nmy collage but the new place is really nice and I won\u2019t need to\ncover the walls at all. They all have a coat of fresh paint \u2013 a\nlovely peach color in the bedrooms and off-white in the living room\nand dining room. The place is spotlessly clean. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nThere\u2019s\na huge front porch and I can hardly wait to put a porch garden up\nthere. I want tomatoes and peppers and cukes and lots of colorful\nflowers. I have missed gardening these last few years \u2013 stuck in\napartments with no porch, not even a small balcony \u2013 so I am more\nthan ready to get my hands in some dirt! I am so glad I held onto my\ngardening tools. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\nThese\nlast two years I have been about as depressed as I have ever been but\nI have hung in there and told myself over and over, \u201cThis too shall\npass\u201d \u2013 and it did. <\/em>I am finally moving out of this\ndead-end neighborhood \u2013 moving to a far nicer section of the city \u2013\nmoving to a bigger, lovelier apartment \u2013 closer to everything that\nI need in my life. I am so thankful and happy. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tHey,\nI know this is a lame column this month but I am wicked busy! I just\nwanted to stop in and tell you all \u2013 if you are struggling, if you\nthink it\u2019s not worth it \u2013 HANG IN THERE. It gets better. It\nreally does. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brightest Blessings, Polly Applequeen.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About\nthe Author:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Polly\nMacDavid<\/strong> lives\nin Buffalo, New York at the moment but that could easily change,\nsince she is a gypsy at heart. Like a gypsy, she is attracted to the\ndivinatory arts, as well as camp fires and dancing barefoot. She has\nthree cats who all help her with her magic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her\nphilosophy about religion and magic is that it must be thoroughly\nbased in science and logic. She is Dianic Wiccan and she is solitary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She\nblogs at silverapplequeen.wordpress.com<\/a>.\nShe writes about general life, politics and poetry. She is writing a\nnovel about sex, drugs and recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Packing Up To Move It\u2019s still only February as I write this but in ten days it\u2019ll be the first Monday of March and I will be moving into a new apartment. I am so excited but I have to admit that I am just a bit overwhelmed! I have all of my books packed and most of my fine china and collectibles. I still have to pack up my kitchen \u2013 except for what I\u2019ll need on a daily basis until moving day. And all my pictures will have to come off the walls here. There were lots of holes punched in the walls in this place I\u2019m in now \u2013 the people who lived here before me argued a lot and apparently like to throw things at each other \u2013 so I covered the walls with dozens of pictures to cover up all the holes and marks from their stupidity. I\u2019ll miss my collage but the new place is really nice and I won\u2019t need to cover the walls at all. They all have a coat of fresh paint \u2013 a lovely peach color in the bedrooms and off-white in the living room and dining room. The place is spotlessly clean. There\u2019s a huge front porch and I can hardly wait to put a porch garden up there. I want tomatoes and peppers and cukes and lots of colorful flowers. I have missed gardening these last few years \u2013 stuck in apartments with no porch, not even a small balcony \u2013 so I am more than ready to get my hands in some dirt! I am so glad I held onto my gardening tools. These last two years I have been about as depressed as I have ever been but I have hung in there and told myself over and over, \u201cThis too shall pass\u201d \u2013 and it did. I am finally moving out of this dead-end neighborhood \u2013 moving to a far nicer section of the city \u2013 moving to a bigger, lovelier apartment \u2013 closer to everything that I need in my life. I am so thankful and happy. Hey, I know this is a lame column this month but I am wicked busy! I just wanted to stop in and tell you all \u2013 if you are struggling, if you think it\u2019s not worth it \u2013 HANG IN THERE. It gets better. It really does. Brightest Blessings, Polly Applequeen. *** About the Author: Polly MacDavid lives in Buffalo, New York at the moment but that could easily change, since she is a gypsy at heart. Like a gypsy, she is attracted to the divinatory arts, as well as camp fires and dancing barefoot. She has three cats who all help her with her magic. Her philosophy about religion and magic is that it must be thoroughly based in science and logic. She is Dianic Wiccan and she is solitary. She blogs at silverapplequeen.wordpress.com. She writes about general life, politics and poetry. She is writing a novel about sex, drugs and recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19402"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18972,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19402\/revisions\/18972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}