The blog of the Community Support Officer – leader of the Community Support Team
Hail and welcome to the Web of Wyrd, the blog of the community support team! Spring seems an apt time for a fresh start and new faces, doesn’t it? Although autumn will always hold my heart, I have a special kind of love for spring. Seeing new buds peep through the frost, the sun coming…
What I’ve been up to in Leicester over the past couple of months – by Ang Langrick 1) For the past few years I have been working with St Philip’s Centre which is an organisation designed to educate people about different faiths. I have done a school assembly 1 hour Q&A on paganisms to a…
Ang Langrick is Second Deputy Community Support Officer/CSO Team secretary. Here she introduces herself….. I’m now retired after being a Pagan Prison Chaplain for years and having to give up due to ill health back in 2019. I am keeping busy with supporting our lovely CSO and Deputy CSO; Volunteering with one of the local…
Today – 18th September 2022 – I was privileged to be invited by the Bishop of Leicester, to a Thanksgiving ceremony in remembrance of Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II, at the Church of St James the Greater, of which I gladly attended. I was asked to represent all the Pagan faiths in Leicester and…
This is a Raising Pagan Voices Project submission Dusks hushed blanketShadows the skyIn folds of enchanted blue.Slowly yieldingAs night encroachesWith its ever darkening hues.The stark silhouettesOf faded daylightStand black in the eerie glow,Til disappearingAs domineering darknessIncreasingly strength does show. Written by Hannah Semple
This is a Raising Pagan Voices Project Submission There once was a woman named Freya. She was a skilled and well liked woman in the village of Trellis despite being a known witch with unusual powers. She would use her powers for good, blessing young married couples with fertility, tending the sick but her most…
This is a Raising Pagan Voices Project Submission I do notI do not needI do not feelI do not hungerI do not loveI do not wantI do not haveI do not getI do not believe I hateI fightI push awayI run awayI hideI survive Lonely, ashamed,Immoral, debased.Broke. Emptiness.Broken spirit, no life,No feelings, nothing.No-one. Bored. Dead…
This is a Raising Pagan Voices Project Submission I wrote this a long time ago when I was still in junior school. Looking back, I think it’s quite funny. My name is BethAnd I am not embarrassed to sayThat I am a witch.Don’t be afraid of meBecause I don’t cast spellsOr hex.I wear a capeBut…
This is a Raising Pagan Voices Project Submission It was a long way down and Moldovo watched each globule form as it left the body dangling over the edge of the building and fell beautifully through the air as it made its way to the ground. Once three droplets had gathered on the ground she…
This is a Raising Pagan Voices Project Submission Eddie hears the sirens as he reaches the estate, his bag large over his shoulder. He sighs. ‘What is it today?’ In a few more paces, a few more bills in brown envelopes delivered, Eddie smells the acrid scent from a car on fire, black smoke racing…