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June 2014

June 18, 2014

That Place We Keep Meeting

The Network isn't like a Natural Spirit! It's not like Nature. It's not like the...

May 2014

May 27, 2014

Amsterdam

As I sit here listening to the ragweed and grass whisper next to a canal,...

May 20, 2014

The Housing Bubble

When you visit a friend's home, you can feel if you are welcome or not....

May 13, 2014

The Holt

Lincoln Park was our Holt, like the original home of the forest elves in Elfquest....

May 06, 2014

Feeling Out of Place

Last week I started to write a post, and then I abandoned it. It didn't...

April 2014

April 22, 2014

Different And The Same

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

April 16, 2014

Clutha

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

April 01, 2014

Clutha

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

March 2014

March 18, 2014

Lessons From D.C.

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

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 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 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 12, 2014

The Place of Death.

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

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 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 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 09, 2014

TED Talk: A Sense of Place

We exist only in real places; whether we notice them, or not, whether we respect...

January 08, 2014

Wide Angle Vision Part 1: A Useful Meditation

My friend calls this wide angle vision a "useful meditation technique" because you can use...

January 02, 2014

Paganism’s Messiah Complex

A troubling component of the western centric world view can be found within western paganism....

December 2013

December 24, 2013

Traveling Toward Birth (Part 2)

This dream bothered me so much. Why was I taking the little boy to Thailand...

December 17, 2013

Traveling Toward Birth

My dreams have been full of buses and trains. My friend's baby hasn't made his...

December 11, 2013

Energy Signatures of Place

In The Secret Language of Plants, Buhner describes ways in which you can open yourself...

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...

December 04, 2013

The Train as Merkava

As economy land travel goes, a coach seat on the Empire Builder is pretty comfortable,...

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...