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Covering a variety of spiritual topics, from meditation, ritual, magic and prayer, to philosophy, poetry, music, art and politics--all from the perspective of a young Druidess.
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The Beauty Bone
Okay, you know the funny bone, that weird little spot on your elbow that tingles something awful when you bump it in just the right way? It has something to do with ligaments and joints, and how muscl...
The Death of Civilization.
The following is a review of The Road, a novel by Cormac McCarthy, published in 2006. Its film adaptation is set to be released in November, 2008.If future anthropologists are one day sorting through...
Death in Springtime.
You may have noticed, dear reader, my recent lack of regular blogging over the past month or so...No? O, well then you've probably been suffering from the same blessed spring fever that I've come down...
Wonder
WonderHer absent god and his empty tombamidst the snow and flower-bloom,the ready earth and garden tilled,the Gardener smiling, sweet and stilled:moon-full night and balanced dayhave swept even her go...
Mud & Mess, Life & Death
Some thoughts about spring, mud, death, war, grief and necessity.Perhaps it is only by confronting the pain and horror of destruction that we can see our way to the sublimity of life and creation....
The Day I Heard
Joining in the fun of the Brigid in Cyberspace Poetry Reading, in honor of Imbolc, I'll be posting a few works of poetry and creative writing over the next week.This first one is a bit of journaling f...
Lacuna: Death & Afterwards
Last bit of the Lacuna series, probably, as I already have some ideas for decent, proper blog entries in the works. This is something I actually wrote last January, after seeing a crappy Dateline (or ...
Satyagraha & Nonviolence on Veteran's Day
Gandhi's Ode("The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice'within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of beinga minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to ...
Whirling
Yesterday's personal journal entry about "The Whirling Dervishes of Rumi" performance at Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, October 23, 2007:Today I was sad, so I worked really hard.The per...
Grief, Dissolved.
Deep within the still center of my being,May I find peace.Silently within the quiet of the Grove,May I share peace.Gently within the greater circle of humankind,May I radiate peace.Awen.I am not sad t...
On Faith & Its Loss
(Still not the promised follow-up post on cereology, which is a shame, since my readership apparently jumped when I began mentioning crop circles. Still in the works, I swear.)Some of you may have alr...
Bitter About the Internet
Any time I hear a lot of people all clamoring for and falling over themselves to praise something--I get suspicious.It's been happening recently with the internet, and specifically this "Web 2.0" stuf...
Difficult News.
While on vacation with my family this past week, I received news that a close friend of mine had died. It has been a difficult week, grieving silently on my own as my family (who did not know him) awk...
Modern Myths about Christianity Series
A Swiftly Tilting Planet