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June 2015

June 08, 2015

Living Values in A Place

When we try to live according to our values, we cannot just do so in...

May 2015

May 20, 2015

On Place, Pagan Values, and Politicizing Paganism

These woods where I live have a spirit to them, a kind of consciousness, and...

May 18, 2015

Be Here Now

It's the day before hopping on a plane I am wound up tight as can...

April 2015

April 28, 2015

Beltane On The Beach: An Enduring Maine Tradition

Despite the beauty of Popham Beach, Beltane On The Beach is at its core about...

April 14, 2015

Footprints in the Muck, Blind Spots, & Seeing Past the Light

Mud is a messy dialogue. It is the in-between state, the parley between earth &...

April 06, 2015

Developing a Daily Devotional Practice of Place

For many of us, there is no choice but to re-dream the magickal practices that...

March 2015

March 24, 2015

The Problem with Subsistence Living

There are many of us who would like nothing more than to live a subsistence...

March 18, 2015

A Sense of Florida

It’s not all silliness and Florida Man har hars. Think drug cartels, murders for hire,...

March 17, 2015

On Snakes, Truth-Speakers, & St. Patrick

If we extend the metaphor further, then not only did St. Patrick (and by extension,...

March 03, 2015

Elemental Ethos: Water

The metaphysical associations with water tend to be the realm of emotions and felt experience....

February 2015

February 17, 2015

Pagan is Latin for Redneck

"Paganus" is an ancient term of otherness. It was disparaging, much like the "redneck" of...

February 03, 2015

Elemental Ethos: Air

It's snowing again today. The forecast calls for an additional 8-12" blanket to top off...

January 2015

January 20, 2015

Elemental Ethos: Earth

The local ecosystem is our home, our host. I have come to realize that, for...

January 16, 2015

Gods Under Glass

Why seeing gods in museums makes me a bit uncomfortable.

January 06, 2015

Elements of Nature

Here I am. I feel you on my skin. I feel your power, but rather...

December 2014

December 24, 2014

By Way Of Introduction

I look at all my friends in the sky, and to all the energies in...

November 2014

November 28, 2014

Ferguson is a Forest

What if you weren't allowed in a forest? How Private Property and Spirits of Place...

November 12, 2014

When Technology Forces Us To Leave Space For Nature

As I approached the forest last week, I remembered that the reason it exists there...

November 04, 2014

Meeting With The Gods and Spirits

How do I tell you a story without telling you the whole story? I'm good...

October 2014

October 29, 2014

After the Storm, The Mushrooms Arrive

Every little thing distracts me as I walk. The sound of a bird alert warning...

October 22, 2014

The Mystic Black Hole Where Technology Failed Me

It was like a black hole. Only it didn't affect light. It only affected communication....

October 13, 2014

Remembering the never born: claiming a sibling as an Ancestor

I claim my never-born sibling as an Ancestor, because hir death fundamentally shaped my life....

September 2014

September 19, 2014

The Crossroads of Memory

Walking the paths of memory might get us closer to understanding eternity...

September 08, 2014

When the heather blooms: the end of summer

I do my best to appreciate the land as it is, today, through all of...

September 05, 2014

Where They May Be Found: The Dead

The Dead are never far away. Sixth in the series, "Where They May Be Found."

August 2014

August 22, 2014

Missing The Forest

Sometimes Forests need trees to hide them.

August 20, 2014

Finding Identity In The Directions

There is a place where there are No Directions, and yet from that place spring...

August 14, 2014

Sitting On This Speck Of Dust In The Cosmos

I didn't post on A Sense of Place yesterday. I wanted to, I really did,...

August 04, 2014

When water is cut off: from Cochabamba to Detroit, by way of my bathroom

We all need water, but we are not all in control of our water supply.

July 2014

July 28, 2014

The Common Riding: Langholm’s Great Day

As Pagans, we are often used to thinking of traditions linking people to seasons and...