Welcome to my nerdy sanctuary :) I started making this site when I was going through a difficult time in my life and wanted a place where I could freely express myself in a non-linear way and share thoughts and photos from my life and travels. Maybe it’s all the LSD I took as a teenager but I’d rather not feel the pressure to time stamp everything. The past, present and future weave in and out of each other like seaweed under salty waves.

I often yearn for simpler times, before cell phones and the Kardashians and chain stores on every street corner – and when the internet was a place for geeks and freaks and freeware… so I decided to make a 90’s-style website. I kind of became pop-culturally fossilized in the mid-90’s when I stopped watching TV, so it seems fitting.

The first incarnation of this site was true to it’s roots with really bad coding, misshapen tables, stolen GIFS and lots of spelling mistakes. It eventually evolved into what you see here, where everything is made from scratch. I also gave myself the challenge of making everything with free, open-source software on an old Del laptop I picked up at Free Greek that’s running Ubuntu.

I know the design of this site is super pagan and you might have been expecting spells and all things witchy to be found on here -- fear not, they are forthcoming! My personal magical practice is a hodge-podge, and I find inspiration in everything from seidr magic, Celtic druidry, mystical Judaism, neolithic art, modern Wicca, Austin Spare, and most importantly: my own intuition and a deep connection to the natural world and the elements.

This site is for all the rebels out there who are wild at heart, and who would would rather speak up and be ostracized than feel a sense of belonging with superficial cliques, toxic corporate workplaces or mainstream society as a whole.. for weirdos who walk their own gnarled path to the beat of their own drums.. for those who stick their feet in the mud and look up at the stars.. and for those who worship the old godds of moon, rock, tree and pond. It’s also for free range 80's kids who remember pogo balls, seedy arcades, splatter movies, unironic mullets, tennis ball sized gobstoppers, fat skateboards, exploring abandoned houses, and an extreme lack of parental supervision. At some point I’ll be putting up scans from my old sticker books, and some 35mm shots from underground black/thrash metal shows in Europe!

This website is also about dreams and visions of a future without starving polar bears, brutal genocides, the global corporate elite, and the rape and exploitation of the natural world. There are so many wise, brilliant, beautiful, inventive, competent people on the planet who are waiting for all of the psychopathic, narcissistic, buttheads who run the world to fuck off and go live in caves and learn pranayama for 10 years while sane, grounded people can start repairing all of the damage that’s been done to the earth's ecosystems and make a liveable planet for all of humanity.

Or maybe we're all just be a petri-dish full of human flies for some extraterrestrial teenager’s science project? I don't know. Humans are ridiculous: we've polluted the oceans with plastics and oil, mowed down sacred forests, and filled the air with toxins - so now we’re going to try and colonize Mars? Didn’t you watch Total Recall, Elon? Mars sucks.

Most of what this site became is the fruit of my COVID lockdown labour, and I have a restless spirit so it wasn't easy living at the edge of the world on (so-called) Vancouver Island; but it was the best thing for me, and something I've needed for a long time: to go inside of myself, cry out a dump truck full of sorrows, listen to the birds, listen to the rain, listen to vinyl, and light fires under a silvery moon..

\Kyla-Rose

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p.s. As this website keeps evolving it's becoming more and more about my recovery from psychosis and substance abuse issues, and my deepening involvement with grassroots environmental and social actions.

I'm not ashamed of what I've been through. I see so-called mental illness as a symptom of a sick society that needs radical change, and I feel better and better every day as I commit myself to making those changes.

I go to some dark places in here but fear not dear reader, I won't lead you up shit's creek without a paddle. The void isn't the end, it's just a portal..

*Why I left Neocities*