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A Sense of Place

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April 2014

April 23, 2014

Wishful Ducklings

There is something here, a notion of human beings living in community with nature; not...

April 22, 2014

Different And The Same

Over the past week I have been in Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Glasgow, Scotland; London, England;...

April 18, 2014

A Light That Never Goes Out…

I became a Pagan 18 years ago on Easter Sunday, and I've a kind priest...

April 16, 2014

Clutha

Clyde, Clydeh, Clydhe, Cludha. The waters rise up, envelop you, take you down. Cold at...

April 11, 2014

Disenchantment, Enclosure, And ‘The Burning Times’

Capitalism is responsible for our ancestral trauma, our alienation from the land, and the greatest...

April 04, 2014

Some Walk Away

What do you do when you discover that the happiness, success, and comfort of your...

April 01, 2014

Clutha

I felt the energy of the river as it stretches out onto land, as it...

March 2014

March 28, 2014

What We Built From Ruins, Part Four

The fourth and final installment in a fiction series exploring what Paganism might become in...

March 21, 2014

What We Built From Ruins, Part Three

A Druid tells the story of what Paganism becomes, 50 years on. (Part three of...

March 18, 2014

Lessons From D.C.

At some point along the drive I noticed a change in myself. I was agitated...

March 14, 2014

What We Built From Ruins (Part Two)

As the oil ran out and the waters got poisoned, what kind of world did...

March 11, 2014

Leaving Greensboro

After having been repeatedly prevented from leaving due to weather, I turned to my friend...

March 07, 2014

What We Built From Ruins (Part One)

As the oil ran out and the waters got poisoned, what kind of world did...

March 05, 2014

My Wishlist for the Pagan Community

What would it be like for the Pagan community to be completely mainstream? Not a...

February 2014

February 28, 2014

Gods In-Between

Traveling has taught me that, between here and there is another place altogether, and it's...

February 27, 2014

Do The Gods Care About Money?

As an animist, I struggle to find my place among modern paganism. My concept of...

February 25, 2014

Twisted Roots

It never occurred to me that any of my ancestors might be Quaker. Now that...

February 21, 2014

The Garments of the Gods

When a god in one city appears different in another, perhaps it is that they...

February 20, 2014

Creating a Place-Based Practice

On the second dark moon of January, a group of 9 gathered in my front...

February 18, 2014

The Value of Communities of Place

Sometimes the most important communities are the unintentional ones, the ones that happen just because...

February 14, 2014

What I Learned in the Crosswalk

Sometimes we need someone to free us from a spell by breaking out of it...

February 12, 2014

The Place of Death.

I've known for a while that one day I would have to learn what death...

February 07, 2014

The Past is a Place We Still Inhabit

Our belief that the present is somehow exceptional, that we are modern and more developed...

February 04, 2014

Wide Angle Vision Part 3: Ignoring the Impacts

While reading The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines for Life...

January 2014

January 31, 2014

On the Hearth and the Un-Hearthed

It saddens–no, enrages me–that so many people do not have homes. From what I’ve learned...

January 30, 2014

Oiche Fhéile Bhríde: The Eve of St. Brighid’s Feast

Tomorrow night is the eve of St. Brighid’s Feast, perhaps one of the most celebrated...

January 24, 2014

A Choice of Worldings

Land Spirits who protest factory conditions and a spear-wielding, "strong-armed" mystical king leading the smashing...

January 23, 2014

A Pagan Goes To FreezerBurn

An animist pagan attends a regional Burn and discovers how the principles of radical self-reliance...

January 22, 2014

Wide Angle Vision Part 2: Missing The Variables

Spiritual insights may come from an innate ability to process the relationships between many variables...

January 17, 2014

Display, Filter, Conceal

Losing my camera on pilgrimage helped me remember to see.

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