Magic Spoon and other odd thoughts

So I have a magic spoon - is that weird? lol Well ok it's not actually a "magic" spoon, it's on old, large, very battered, silver spoon that belonged to my great grandmother. And it's also the spoon that I use to make ooey gooey Witchin' Brownies - literally since they come from a recipe I found many years ago in The Real Witches Cookbook. I know just how many spoonfuls of each ingredient to use to make them. People seem to like them! It's also one of the few things that made the cut and came across the Atlantic with me several years ago. Funny what makes the cut when you have to pack your life into two bags - or a bag and a suitcase, and of course most of the space is taken up by clothes since they ARE kinda necessary!

Hate else made the cut? A towel - yeah, yeah, Hitchhiker's reference - two of the best pieces of advice in life come from that book - Don't Panic! and Always know where your towel is. What else? Some jewellery, though I'm not a big jewellery person, mostly rings and things that belonged to my mother, grandmother, and great grandmothers. That'd be why I, who has never been married, own four wedding rings ;) My grandfather and great grandfather's war medals - WW1 and WW2 - which sit on my wall in shadow boxes, my tarot cards, both decks, my Blue bear dream catcher, and a handful of other trinkets. Not much really for 35 years of life. Oh and my journals/notebooks. those I didn't shred anyway, why shred you ask? Because I'd rather shred them than leave them with my ex, period.

Of course since then I've replaced a lot of things, especially the books, and added a whole bunch more. It took a longtime and not a little luck in thrift stores and book stores to replace the "must haves" in my library, but once again my bookshelf is piled high and groaning. I really need to get myself some genuine bookshelves lol Funny though, much as I love books, and some of my other stuff, every once in a while I find myself wondering what I'd take if I once again had to put my life into two bags thanks to a fire, flood, earthquake or whatever. Guess once you do it one time, you rethink your priorities and work out what things you really wouldn't WANT to live without ( aside from family and pets since we're talking 'things'). All the others are just nice to have ;)

What would I include now? Still my tarot cards, photo albums and family history books, spellbooks and journals, trinkets and jewellery, my staff, a handful of books....

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Is it odd that I, the 'what's a closet?' witch, like both 19 kids and counting and sister wives? Colour me crazy but I do. Was thinking about that the other day while watching the 2nd Duggar grandchild arrive. First, they have different faiths/lifestyles/whatever, which always interests me, second they're 'good people', as gramma would say, and third, they walk their walk even when the world throws them curve balls or criticism. Have to respect that in them, it's all I ask - leave me be and let me walk my path even if you disagree with it.