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July 2014

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...

June 2014

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 18, 2014

The Queen of Fair Elfland

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

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...

May 2014

May 28, 2014

Love and Magnolias

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

May 21, 2014

The Witchcraft of Place

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

May 07, 2014

The language of birds

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

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 23, 2014

Wishful Ducklings

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

April 22, 2013

A taste of place

One of the main ways in which I get in touch with new places when...