DAYS 430 & 431: Best Witches

I can’t not stop to see Jennifer as I travel up or down the Eastern Coast. The editor of Pagan Pages, we became fast friends when she first accepted me as a writer more than seven years ago. After that horrific night, I needed this visit. The hugs, the laughter, the witchy conversation, the laughter, the love, the fun … and the help. I gave her yarn and smudge sticks. She gave me four books and a box of curated Ostara items from Solstice Shoppe that we all opened together, dividing up its contents. (Read the review for the May edition.)

This time, the help first came with taking me to thrift stores and finding me all kinds of solid color tops to match with my printed skirts, and one she deemed too cute to pass up. It’s also impossible to be within 10 feet of this crafty witch without having to get crafty, too. I couldn’t resist the cute tiny glass bottles with metal screw caps, and she wouldn’t let me get out of the store without the wooden candle holders that are the right size for traditional spell candles. There was also a glass cylinder I got to hold a wide candle, an antique jar holder, a short stemmed glass that will now be my martini glass and some boxes of tissues. 

Her husband, Ben, taped together the two wires that separated when a charger fell behind the refrigerator during yesterday’s drive to the parking lot I stayed in overnight. We shared meals and experiences and opinions, and chilled on the bus. They even got to ride in it.

I’m not good with goodbyes.

Tonight I am at my third location. The first was posted no overnight parking, and it was being enforced. The second was a corner lot in an undesirable section of town. This one is a truck stop 30 minutes away in New Jersey that required me to take a ticket upon entering the truck area, where I am used to parking. I don’t know what it will mean trying to get out of here … if I can find my way out of here – this lot is so huge and I had to drive and drive to find a place I could fit, without knowing any of the rules. Next time I go to a truck stop, I plan to stay with the cars.