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A Sense of Place

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July 2014

July 11, 2014

Where They May Be Found: Brighid

Fifth in the series, "Where They May Be Found." Brighid tosses more wood upon Her...

July 09, 2014

Some things I learned from blackberries

It's tough, hardy, even invasive; blackberry left unchecked tends to take over an area and...

July 02, 2014

Calling the Fay and Scaring the Monsters

Meanwhile, down at the child care area set aside to keep the kiddies away from...

July 02, 2014

Finding Home

Glasgow and Seattle both whisper in my ear and tell me that they could be...

June 2014

June 27, 2014

Where They May Be Found: Ceridwen

We living feast relentlessly on the dead, and love is a kind of death--is death...

June 25, 2014

Can a human being be the spirit of a place?

I started out thinking of Marie Laveau as a kind of local spirit of New...

June 23, 2014

The power of the song thrush: life, death and the feast of St. John

The Jug of Punch, the song thrush, the summer solstice, the feast of St. John,...

June 20, 2014

When People Don’t Want You In This Place

I am angry that elected officials and appointed civil servants in an Arkansas town feel...

June 18, 2014

The Queen of Fair Elfland

Now, I think I could make a good case that New Orleans and Faerie are...

June 18, 2014

That Place We Keep Meeting

The Network isn't like a Natural Spirit! It's not like Nature. It's not like the...

June 13, 2014

Where They May Be Found: Cernunnos

Finding gods you know in places is one thing, but helping someone find a god...

June 11, 2014

Perspective in Place

On the way I could see elder bushes, water hyacinths, and a million wildflowers in...

June 04, 2014

From Here to There

Today I am going to New Orleans, on the train. I’m conscious of the irony...

June 02, 2014

Home.

What home means.

May 2014

May 30, 2014

Where They May Be Found: Arianrhod

The second in a five-part series on where I've met the gods. Part Two: Arianrhod.

May 28, 2014

Love and Magnolias

Love can be like a magnolia: valued but wild, blossoming suddenly out of nowhere but...

May 27, 2014

Amsterdam

As I sit here listening to the ragweed and grass whisper next to a canal,...

May 23, 2014

Where They May Be Found: Brân

The first in a five-part series on where I've met the gods. Part One: Bran...

May 21, 2014

The Witchcraft of Place

Every so often, I teach a workshop I call "Ditch Witch: Magical Uses of Common...

May 20, 2014

The Housing Bubble

When you visit a friend's home, you can feel if you are welcome or not....

May 16, 2014

Fare Forward, Travelers…

At some point, my life became a story. Gods showed up, magic became the everyday,...

May 14, 2014

Infinity in the palm of your hand

I frequently do a meditation where I visualize an image where my heart is, and...

May 13, 2014

The Holt

Lincoln Park was our Holt, like the original home of the forest elves in Elfquest....

May 09, 2014

What I Know of a Creek

On the Amazon Creek in Eugene, Oregon: "I don't understand this creek, actually. Mostly, I...

May 07, 2014

The language of birds

I'd love to be camping right now, somewhere nice and inaccessible, but the fact is...

May 06, 2014

Feeling Out of Place

Last week I started to write a post, and then I abandoned it. It didn't...

May 02, 2014

The Dance of Desire and Delight

Those of you reading this who also write may understand, perhaps agree or disagree, but...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

With a hey and a ho and a hey nonny no

It's going to be Beltane any minute now, and while my friends in more northern...

April 28, 2014

Signs of Beltane Approaching

Beltane is not, here, a time of courting your lover in the woods all night...

April 25, 2014

Dionysos in a Paving Stone, Brighid in the Broken Glass

When we go to festivals and spiritual retreats in nature, what are we retreating from?...

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