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June 2014

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 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...

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...

March 2014

March 18, 2014

Lessons From D.C.

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

February 2014

February 20, 2014

Creating a Place-Based Practice

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

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...

January 2014

January 23, 2014

A Pagan Goes To FreezerBurn

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

December 2013

December 05, 2013

Urban Witchcraft: The Power of Place in the City

The fantasy of the witch's cottage is romantic, but is largely a fiction: most of...

November 2013

November 28, 2013

Urban Witchcraft: The Power of Words

Many Americans will celebrate Thanksgiving this week by gathering with loved ones to feast, and...

November 21, 2013

Urban Witchcraft: The Power of Rot

Death and decay, forces that have concerned human-persons for millennia, are still actively propitiated in...

November 13, 2013

Urban Witchcraft : Spirit Roads

Is the urban environment a magical landscape? Traci thinks so. This week she shares her...

October 2013

October 23, 2013

Beauty In Other People’s Faith

"God's Work, Our Hands" the quilting volunteers' t-shirts read. And it is God's work: they...

October 15, 2013

The Place Where I’m Not Weird

Beyond the walls of a building, home is also the place where you know how...

October 10, 2013

Naturalizing: Bringing Our Practice Home

Much of North American paganism is influenced by imagined European ancestral practice, even when the...

September 2013

September 26, 2013

Returning To America : Place As Cultural Experience

This week Traci shares her thoughts on returning to America, and experiencing the culture and...

September 04, 2013

Japan’s Fukushima Disaster and Its Impact on Fish in the Pacific Northwest

For the most part, those of us that love wild seafoods from the Pacific Northwest...

September 03, 2013

The Weight Of A University

Last week I found myself on the Glasgow University campus and was struck by the...

July 2013

July 16, 2013

People and Place

Do people make a place the way it is or does a place shape the...

July 04, 2013

Celebrating Dissent

Today, Americans celebrate their heritage as dissenters and rabble rousers, but just what is this...

May 2013

May 10, 2013

Distracting you with flowers

Niki shares pictures of pretty flowers in her yard.

April 2013

April 26, 2013

Procession of the Species

Niki prepares to participate in the Procession of the Species.

April 22, 2013

A taste of place

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

April 02, 2013

I’m a Pagan because of connection, and continuity and change

Sitting in a metal tube for nine hours is one of the most specifically human,...

March 2013

March 29, 2013

House and Home

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