Amethyst Qu
Bio
Seeker, traveler, birder, crystal collector, photographer. I sometimes visit the mysterious side of life. Author of "The Moldavite Message" and "Crystal Magick, Meditation, and Manifestation."
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Stories (116/0)
A Pollinator Speaks and He's Got a Few Thoughts
Poet's note: You don't have enough to tell from this image alone, but this little guy is a male Black-chinned Hummingbird. In November 2016, I photographed him in western Mexico where large numbers migrate every winter.
By Amethyst Qu3 years ago in Poets
A Hidden Cactus
Poet's note: Aren't you always tempted to prune away the twigs and leaves that obstruct your photograph? When I spotted these red cactus flowers peeping out from beneath all those twigs, I was tempted to do a little gardening-- but then the photo would no longer represent the cactus as I found her in the wild.
By Amethyst Qu3 years ago in Poets
A Ghost Story Without Any Moral
Author's Note: This story feels like fiction, but it's actually a collage created from past (real) diary entries about my encounters with a ghost living in my house-- a perfectly ordinary slab-on-grade brick and vinyl siding house in a perfectly ordinary southeast Louisiana residential suburb built in 1979. I have no clue where we acquired a ghost. Diary entries have been lightly edited for clarity.
By Amethyst Qu3 years ago in Humans
That One Time I Beat the Races With the Hairdo System
Author's Note: This is a lightly revised diary entry from 2017. Please be aware that this gambling system never worked again. Nope. Not once. Do not use it in an attempt to make money. This story is for entertainment purposes only. If it makes you smile, it did its job.
By Amethyst Qu3 years ago in Lifehack
Golden Wings Before the Last Collapse
Poet's note: The inspiration for this poem comes from the final days before the old wooden table in the photograph collapsed in a heap of rotten boards. The yellow witches' butter fungus that sprouted on the table after every rainy day this spring gave me fair warning-- for this beautiful jelly fungus is a parasite on several species of wood decay fungus. As a parasite on a wood-destroying parasite, its presence let me know the end was nigh.
By Amethyst Qu3 years ago in Poets
To Perch on a Thorn
Poet's Note: The inspiration for this poem goes back a few years. I was visiting southwest Mexico to search for endemics like these Boucard’s Wrens. One of the birds landed on a nearby cactus, and the second one came along to knock it off. Ego got involved, and they tussled.
By Amethyst Qu3 years ago in Poets
Love Spells Actually
Note: I prefer the spelling magick to refer to the occult and spiritual practice. Love magick is the easiest, most intuitive magick you can do. Find a feather, and put it in your hair. Lover, fly to me. Pick up a shiny rock to wear at the hollow of your throat. My one true love, look at me.
By Amethyst Qu3 years ago in Longevity
How I Rescued An Abused End Table
Upcycle is more than the art of making do. Upcycle has nothing to do with saving money, although you may very well back into saving some money by accident. Upcycle is the art of taking an absolutely dreadful and disastrous item off the trash heap and turning it into a work of art that makes you smile every time you see it.
By Amethyst Qu3 years ago in Lifehack