About Kirasha
A Writer. An Artist. A Woman. A Witch. A Storyteller.
After writing and blogging for many years, I found myself at a place where I didn’t have the time to write posts and then found it hard to come back and maintain the same outlook as older posts. ...And then it came back.
My first loves are information, writing, art, and music, all of which are liberally sprinkled throughout this site. I find inspiration in the quotes, photos, and art of others, which I will often share. Rants, stories of my life, many things you will find here are of a personal nature. These are my personal opinions and thoughts; I will not begrudge you yours, only ask you respect mine as such.
I am first and foremost a storyteller, though my stories may be told in various media be it poetry, prose, digital painting, photography, etc. I work very hard at not losing the 'childlike innocence' that allows me to view the world as a place filled with magic and spirit. That doesn't mean I can't be as cynical and snarky as the next person -- perhaps moreso as those moods fall most often when I had the veil of wonder lifted to remind me the world has a dark side too.
I have a fascination with the unseen world: myths, legends, spirituality. A lot of my work tends to focus on this aspect of life. There is a feeling to the “old world” that I find lacking in today’s society. A charm, or attitude maybe. This is not to say that past eras were perfect, but I often find myself adopting the manners and style of days that have gone before.
Kirasha is a persona I’ve been playing with in various forms from fiction to roleplay to online handles since the mid-90s. At one point, I tried renaming Kirasha to Ceitdubh, but that didn’t stick. Kirasha’s been with me for too long.
In February of 2008, I finally created an account on Second Life®. I’d been looking at the site for months, trying to decide if I wanted to get involved there, and had recently learned some friends were members. One day, after leaving work ill and napping away the morning/afternoon, I decided to give it a shot.
Thus, Kirasha Urqhart was cemented as my online persona. Although, I don’t truly keep a strict line between First and Second Life the way many SL residents do. This isn’t roleplay. I do roleplay, but have not dipped into RP in SL.
I consider myself to be a privacy advocate and support of freedom of speech in all forms. I am fairly moderately aligned, neither truly conservative or liberal, and have no party affiliation. I would rather ditch the labels and do what's right by humanity and the planet. Empathy and compassion over greed and competition.
Peggy Carter’s paraphrasing in Civil War of Cap’s famous speech from comics sums up my thoughts pretty well:
Compromise where you can. And where you can’t, don’t. Even if everyone is telling you that something wrong is something right, even if the whole world is telling you to move. It is your duty to plant yourself like a tree, look them in the eye and say, no. You move.
~-~ Peggy Carter
I am not new to blogging or the web. I started back in ‘98 with GeoCities and cycled through EarthLink, LiveJournal, DeadJournal, InsaneJournal, Dreamwidth, Blogger, Expression Engine, WordPress, and Tumblr. Not to mention microblogs like twitter and Instagram.
I also can’t toss literally decades of writing. So, if you go into the archives and find really old work that seems to predate the platform, just know that it’s imported from an older platform.
On this blog, I post crafting, roleplaying, writing, journaling, mixed media, nail art, planning, spirituality, and general thoughts on life as a single woman in her 40s. I also write both original stories and fanfiction. My public writing is currently all housed at Archive of Our Own.