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living in a house out in the woods

By | May 27, 2010

Living out here is an amazing opportunity to dance in the cycles of Nature — with all that represents. The beautiful: Watching the trees burst into leaf during a particularly wet week in early May. Watching the river rise with the rain and fall with the heat (it’s been in the upper 80s this week). [...]

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arrival

By | May 15, 2010

Well, I’m here. It’s been a little more than two weeks and I’m still figuring out what my new life is like. We didn’t get the house we’d made an offer on. That went to a bank auction, wires got crossed, communication ended, and I don’t know if anyone ever bought the house. We drove [...]

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On creating Pagan ethics

By | April 21, 2010

In response to a couple of particularly heinous news stories about self-proclaimed Pagans, Jason at The Wild Hunt has put out a call to create a statement of Pagan ethics. (The actual hammering-out of the statement will be hosted by Brendan Myers on his forum.) The adjective “self-proclaimed” has featured pretty regularly in news articles [...]

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Ostara, anyway

By | March 22, 2010

Somehow it snuck up on me this year. I bought egg dye and a bag of pre-filled eggs earlier this week, then on Saturday realized we didn’t have any Ostara baskets or much candy or fun stuff like that. We went shopping and bought seed packets, felt baskets in bright colors, chocolate rabbits, and a [...]

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another poem of the moment

By | March 11, 2010

Wild Geese – Mary Oliver You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. [...]

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