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November 2016

November 24, 2016

A Pagan Requiem

I have been thinking for a while that we need more liturgical poetry in Pagan...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

Poem on a Birthday

All the myths and stories tell us the gift exists to be transformed and passed...

June 2016

June 08, 2016

We Are Rising

The Queer Ones are rising. We are rising out of the woods, out of the...

May 2016

May 10, 2016

The Moon and the Sea

I have always had a bit of a thing about the Moon, and everything associated...

April 2016

April 30, 2016

On Poetry: A Conversation

Sarah Sadie and I decided to write a different kind of blogpost - a conversation....

March 2016

March 30, 2016

Creative Endarkenment: Pausing to Get Acquainted with Darkness

All creativity roots itself in the dark, no matter how small or large the idea...but...

September 2015

September 29, 2015

Combinations of Difficult Questions #PinkOut

What if a woman’s voice is the tree falling in the forest? What if women's...

July 2015

July 28, 2015

Walking While Black: A Song

Eric was walking down the street Walking while Black, held his head high Just trying...

May 2015

May 12, 2015

“No One Understands About Black”

Light without dark is the intolerable bright glare of torture and interrogation. We need our...

April 2015

April 27, 2015

A lament

We must turn away from seeing only things And learn to see the sacred in...

March 2015

March 19, 2015

Solar eclipse

Light. We all depend on light. Sunlight to grow our food, Sunlight to warm our...

February 2015

February 05, 2015

A Pagan coming-out ritual

A ritual that celebrates coming out as a rite of passage, and welcomes the newly-identified...

November 2014

November 05, 2014

Elections, Politics, Consent, and #sexyvoterhaiku

Yesterday was a completely improvisatory performance, unfolding in real time, exploring the metaphor of elections...

October 2014

October 22, 2014

The Thirteen Vanic Virtues

The Vanir have their own set of virtues...

September 2014

September 24, 2014

Storymaking, Artmaking, and the Work of the Soul

Maybe it’s a lifework to piece together the soul from the scraps and bits.

July 2014

July 18, 2014

Embodiment and Woundedness: Owning Up to Being an Animal

When I stepped into the waters of Lake Superior, I recognized the sensation exactly: I’ve...

June 2014

June 26, 2014

Listening Is an Act of Dilation

Listening is a creative act. It’s a sacred act, to listen fully to another. We’re...

June 11, 2014

“The New Face I Turn Up to You”

Do we have an ethical responsibility to develop creativity and imagination within ourselves, to encourage...

June 04, 2014

A Theology of Trees and Fractals

Every day we wake up is Choose Your Own Adventure, wildwood, labyrinth, if we have...

May 2014

May 28, 2014

“That Which You Hate and Try to Destroy is Sacred”

I want every woman to insist on herself—and to be free and able to do...

May 22, 2014

Entering the Hall of the Heathens

What is it to be approached by the voice and figure of a god of...

May 14, 2014

A Dance of Impermanence: Introducing Myself in Two Chapters (Otherwise Titled, Why Am I Here and Who Am I, Anyway?)

New contributor, Sarah Sadie! "I went into the class defining myself as a loose-ish, pagan-ish...