Photos by L.S. Moscoso
The things you will see
when you take the time to look up
will be be worth that one small effort and more.
Today I saw a hummingbird’s nest and egg for the first time ever.
It was a moment that became a lifetime.
Month: June 2018
It’s Science
“Whoever said diamonds are a girl’s best friend never owned a dog.”
They Had Me At Cupcake Shops
Photo A.M. Moscoso
I am the biggest fan of Weird New Jersey IN THE WORLD.
Well.
In my world anyway- which is pretty much just me, my dog- who is freaking AWESOME- my camera, laptop and my cool collection of neat stuff ( which consists of things like gargoyles, some embalmers tools and a few casts of my family members teeth )
HOWEVER.
Weird NJ is the Promised Land for those of us who love to explore the odd and the macabre. I’ve had to read the books and magazines and watched anything Weird NJ on TV.
It fed my weird and curious little Soul.
Truthfully, I always felt a little cheated that Washington State didn’t have anything like Weird NJ. I’d go as far as to say I was downright embarrassed that we seemed so boring and normal.
So yesterday I find out from about a half dozen emails from some of my friends who know how much I THRIVE on strange and curious, that right here in Seattle we have our very own version of Mark & Mark- and that we are not so normal here out in the Pacific Northwest.
BOOYAH!
Meet Garrett ( on the left ) and Jeremy
Garret and Jeremy started to track and map weirdness and what they ended up with was a to do list for anyone who believes that there is more of the world to see then places with good reviews on Yelp.
MAP LEGEND from Liminal Seattle
Dark Forces: Lanyard Zombies, Drones, Corporate Death Zones, Cupcake Shops, Etc.
Time Distortions: Travelers, Timehunters, “Deja Vu”, “Losing Time,” Etc.
Mythologies: Pre-Shamanic Deer Cults, Radical Gnostic Animism, etc.
Cryptoids: Bigfoot, Lycanthrops, Trolls, Ogres, Etc.
Thin Places: Ley Lines, Magic Fountains, Plant Sigils, Portals, etc.
Straight Up Ghosts: Creepy vibes, Poltergeists, EVPs, Stone Tape Theories, Class III Apparitions
High Weirdness: Fortean Phenomena, Floating Toblerone, Things That Just Don’t Make Sense
Classic UFO: Close Encounters, Sightings, etc.
Strange Animals: Bearing Gifts, Unusual Encounters, Fecal Divination, etc.
Visions: Dreams, Visions, Mystical Experiences, etc.
What can I say-
They had me at Cupcake Shops.
I subscribed to the Newsletter HERE and I’m going to use the map.
Maybe I’ll discover a little weirdness of my own along the way- fingers crossed!
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Read Press Coverage HERE
Photo A.M. Moscoso
All Who Enter Here
Photo A.M. Moscoso
When I was in my late 20’s I began to have crippling, brain scrambling Panic Attacks.
I’m not sure what kicked them off into high gear but they always followed the same pattern: I would wake up in the middle of the night thinking I was going to die and then after that thought took root I couldn’t breathe.
They were horrible. Even if I could get through the attack I was to scared to fall asleep. So on top of the attacks I began to suffer from the affects of lack of sleep- the worst one by far was depression.
So what did I do?
I read every book I could find about death.
I read books about forensics, I read about the process the body goes through after it dies and I also read medical articles about the process of death itself.
I even schooled myself on the customs and folklore concerning Death in cultures around the world.
This went on for a couple of years.
I understand now that this was a risky path- I could have easily taken what I was learning and topped myself off or it could help me overcome my fear of waking up in the middle of the night thinking I was going to die.
What I was doing was learning about the thing I perceived as my enemy so that I would know it for what it was if it did try to get me.
So did it work?
With what I learned I became a Mortician’s Apprentice, I write about death and ghosts with my own special twist. In fact, I think going down that path made me a better writer.
I also know it gave me a warped sense of humor and a lot of patience for the people in my life.
I also learned that Death wasn’t really my enemy.
It was the face I gave my fears and terrors- now I don’t jump from every shadow that falls my way. Now I can see them for what they are and deal with them.
So I can safely now say I learned a lot from The Grim Reaper and that he was one of the teachers in my life that I can look back on and say, ” Wow, did I learn a lot from that one! ”
The specifics beyond what I mentioned here are between me and my friend in Black. But. I’ll let you in on a secret- the other parts of those specifics are in what I write and in every single laugh and giggle and dream I have.
Daily Addiction Prompt: Cope