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April 2013

April 11, 2013

Boots Across Ireland: Liosnabroc ringfort {video}

This week Traci introduces the first video of her new monthly feature, Boots Across Ireland....

April 09, 2013

Cultural Boundary Spaces

All spaces have boundary crossing spaces within them, because all spaces hold conflicting aspects of...

March 2013

March 29, 2013

House and Home

House hunting means listening for the land to speak, too.

March 28, 2013

A Little Meander on Culture: or, what one does when the Wi-Fi dies

Traci introduces a new monthly video feature, in which she shares her sensuous exploration of...

March 26, 2013

Meeting the wild

I mentioned last week how disconnected I was from the cycles of nature as a...

March 22, 2013

I like weather

On the cold mornings when we walk to preschool, my 4.5 yr old son insists...

March 21, 2013

The Awakening Spring: of light, embodiment, and soliphilia

This week, Traci writes about the emerging embodiment of Spring and how the Light half...

March 20, 2013

Finding place through the eyes of a child

Turns out, any green space is magical to a child.

March 19, 2013

Tracking Blossoms

The cherry trees are in bloom here in the San Francisco Bay Area. The white...

March 14, 2013

Enchantment: coming back to our Selves

Traci concludes her two-part exploration of Enchantment, and discovers, while thinking about the pain of...

March 12, 2013

Expanded awareness

I wrote a while back about sitting in one spot for an hour at a...

March 11, 2013

Knowing our places, inside and out

T. Thorn Coyle's book "Make Magic of Your Life" focuses on desire and making desires...

March 08, 2013

Sacred Lands and Spiritual Landscapes

Niki looks ahead to Cherry Hill Seminary's conference on Sacred Lands and Spiritual Landscapes and...

March 07, 2013

Enchantment: the story of disconnection in our modern world

Traci writes this week about the alienation of scientific consciousness, and begins a two-part exploration...

March 04, 2013

Aliens on our own planet? What science fiction and space exploration can teach us about our sense of place.

We may often feel alien to ourselves and to the life around us - alienated...

March 01, 2013

Make Magic of Your Life: wherever you are

Niki Whiting takes the concepts from T. Thorn Coyle's recent book, Make Magic of Your...

February 2013

February 21, 2013

What Place is This? Our spaceship among the stars

Traci explores the living organism we call home, and encourages us to think of Place...

February 20, 2013

In love with the Gods of the city

Joshua Graham hates trees! --No, not really. But he loves the city. This month's guest...

February 18, 2013

The importance of beauty

Beauty is a vitally important part of my relationship with place, and I think of...

February 06, 2013

Relocalized

Oakland. The city of my birth. The city where my daughter was born. The city...

February 04, 2013

Mending the tears in a displaced life

As Pagans following more-or-less reconstructed and/or inspired traditions at the beginning of the 21st century,...

January 2013

January 29, 2013

Transitions

I find that when I first arrive in a place, it takes me days or...

January 22, 2013

The Sit Spot

No matter how well you think you know a place, you can't really know it...

January 21, 2013

Living and belonging where clouds go to die

Eskdalemuir is a seriously cloudy place. During one period, I swear we didn't see the...

January 17, 2013

A Place Within A Place: reconsidering what is sacred

In thinking of Places within Places, and finding deep connection in an urban environment, it...

January 14, 2013

The land does not belong to us; we belong to the land.

When I connect to this land, I aim to connect not with a mythic, misty...

January 08, 2013

Walking meditation

One of my key practices is the walking meditation. Usually, I just step outside and...

January 07, 2013

The land is made of stories

Even though the slog of January, February and March remains ahead, it feels like a...

January 03, 2013

Place-Based Practice: or dancing with the one who brung ya

Fast-forward a few years to my first initiation, which began with a visioning along Barton...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

Saying goodbye to home

As we make our way through the last day of 2012, though, I find myself...