The Hiwassee Witch

06/02/2026

Dark yards are the best yards. Soft lighting not floods!

Two yards. Same street. Same night.

The one on the left looks finished — lit from every angle, bright and visible. The one on the right looks dark and quiet.

🌿 The dark yard has fireflies flashing in the grass. A sphinx moth pollinating the flowers. A toad hunting under the porch step. Migrating birds passing overhead without circling.

The bright yard has insects spiraling at the bulbs. No fireflies. No moths at the flowers. The same species that filled the dark yard are absent from this one.

The image shows why — and what a warm shielded light with a motion sensor changes.

The yard that stays dark is the one where the night still works 🐾

06/02/2026

Callie Grein Jenn Wessel wanna do it again? I kinda love this market!

It was great having everyone be a part of The Dark Market and our fundraiser supporting Autistic Artists! Hope to see you back in September🖤🩷🖤
More entertainers on BOTH days!

05/23/2026

Today and tomorrow! Come see us!

05/19/2026

Come see us this weekend in Tulsa!

05/16/2026

New sabbat candles are done!

05/16/2026

Even the bees don't like him

Call it a sting operation ... because a massive swarm of bees descended on the White House grounds Friday.

05/04/2026

Kerri Delaney M M Hall Janel Herrscher Malinda Allinson my broom, leather journal and trinket page

04/21/2026

Patriarchy. When men are told no they murder their family.

The deadliest mass shooting our country has witnessed in two years was not an assault at a church or a school but an incident of domestic violence, according to police. Shamar Elkins, a resident of Shreveport, Louisiana, killed eight children, seven of whom were his, on Sunday morning. The only child who survived climbed to the roof and jumped. Elkins also shot two women, one of whom is his wife, Shaneiqua Pugh. She reportedly planned to leave him.

“Many women are not so lucky. I cannot look at my feed lately without seeing stories of Black women’s lives ending tragically,” writes Brittney Cooper, who grew up in Shreveport. Across these deaths, much of the public discourse has centered on the mental-health challenges of the alleged male perpetrators. Shamar Elkins had indicated struggling with suicidal ideation and “demons” to his mother and stepfather. “It is tempting to treat Elkins’s actions as the isolated incident of a madman,” Cooper continues. “But poor mental health is never a reasonable explanation for attempting to execute one’s wife and children. Patriarchy offers a better explanation for this violence.”

Cooper writes about how these killings are the natural outcome of a country enamored with patriarchy: https://nymag.visitlink.me/xUW8Yo