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July 2014

July 15, 2014

Small Green Things

The growing light of day wakes me a little too early, and my first thought...

June 2014

June 02, 2014

Nature Is Enough – A Stream of Consciousness Essay

When I've analyzed my own experiences, I've found that they are seen the way they...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

The Entire Universe is a Sacred Site

Most spiritual paths suppose that certain places are inherently more sacred than others. One of...

May 26, 2014

Cultural Quandaries: Water

Do you ever wonder why there are water bans even though there was a recent...

May 22, 2014

A New Look at the Magic of Trees

I am here in this world, and I want to be as fully in this...

April 2014

April 24, 2014

Introducing Paths Through The Forests

New blog from Lupa Greenwolf and Rua Lupa on ecotheology, permaculture, animism, bioregionalism, and more!

February 2014

February 27, 2014

A Shallow Grave in the Woods Doesn’t Sound So Bad

I just finished reading Bernd Heinrich's Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death. On one...

February 20, 2014

Transequilux keeps me occupied

Transequilux can be a busy time of year, when for most people it is the...

January 2014

January 09, 2014

Inspired by David Douglas

I recently read Jack Nisbet's The Collector: Davis Douglas and the Natural History of the...

November 2013

November 07, 2013

Cultural Quandaries: Death

Death is often something dreaded and not talked about. This sort of reaction to a...

October 2013

October 21, 2013

Ritual & Ceremony of a Naturalistic Saegoah Part 3 of 3 – What & How I Do Ritual and Ceremony

What this Naturalistic Saegoah does for ritual, ceremony, and customs.

October 15, 2013

Ritual & Ceremony of a Naturalistic Saegoah Part 2 of 3 – When & Where I do Ritual and Ceremony

When would a naturalistic Saegoah do their ceremonies and rituals? This question really should be,...

October 08, 2013

Ritual & Ceremony of a Naturalistic Saegoah Part 1 of 3 – Why I do Ritual and Ceremony

Why would someone who considers themselves naturalistic (AKA an atheist) do ceremonies and rituals? Here...

September 2013

September 12, 2013

Community Connections: Sense of Place

The struggle to name a place so that it will not become forgotten but become...

August 2013

August 13, 2013

Creative Crafts: The Wild Grass Fields

Wild grass fields. They are more than what they seem...

August 12, 2013

Forest Fire Dreams and Nightmare Tornadoes

I’ve always been a very active dreamer. Every night, without fail, my mind conjures up...

August 02, 2013

Being a Part of Something Bigger Than Ourselves

One of my favorite documentaries is The Queen of Trees. It follows the interconnection between...

July 2013

July 18, 2013

Cultural Quandaries: Soil

Soil. The source of all our nutrition requires it, making it immensely valuable. But our...

July 01, 2013

A Call to Hope

A while back on Tumblr, I reblogged a picture of a mountain forest with the...

June 2013

June 24, 2013

The Art of Taking as an Offering

Over on my personal blog, Therioshamanism, the concept of giving things has been on my...

June 18, 2013

Poem: Our Planet, Our Home

A poem about our home and how that came to be.

June 04, 2013

I Carry the Ocean in My Blood

When Emma-Jayne Saanen talked last month about her relationship with water, it got me to...

May 2013

May 23, 2013

I Spy: Ehoah is a _____ Path

Ehoah. It is a Philosophy and Path, and here is how it can be incorporated...

May 21, 2013

A Call to My Fellow Bloggers

Today, over on my personal blog Therioshamanism, I posted a call to bloggers to write...

April 2013

April 12, 2013

I Spy: “Look, Nature”

Nature. What is it? A butterfly perhaps? How about that tree? What about the car...

April 04, 2013

Cultural Quandaries: Animals

What comes to mind when you read the word "animal"? Where are you in relation...

March 2013

March 22, 2013

Screaming Scrub Jays!

[Lupa's note: Sorry for the double post of this today; I had a brain hiccough...

March 05, 2013

Religion, Spirituality and Earth Stewardship

Last month, Slate featured an interview with Dekila Chungyalpa, the founder and director of the...

March 04, 2013

Cultural Quandaries: We Are In Space

A lot of what we talk about is related to an on-earth perspective. Where we...

January 2013

January 08, 2013

Colloquial Quandaries: Referencing the Sun

Aristarchus had determined that it was the earth that revolved around the sun during his...

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