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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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Value is a Verb
Yesterday evening, while at a friend's house drinking and playing cards, I was accosted (which might be a strong word) by his slightly drunk roommate, who demanded to know what my values and beliefs w...
Language and Morality
I'm annoyed. This is going to be one of those entries. Be forewarned...Well, today at work a guy accused me of being judgmental.He was complaining about our manager giving him an overloaded schedule t...
Ambivalence
A really interesting, thoughtful, unique man named Lance recently posted to the AODA online message board about "ambivalence"--his struggle to come to terms with contemporary diversity and tolerance o...
Letter to My Brother.
Unless someone like you cares a whole lot,nothing is going to get better. It's not.- Dr. Seuss, from The LoraxDan,Thanks for the letter. I was actually on the phone with Raymond most of the times you ...
A Quandary of Cats
As I promised one reader in the comments of the previous post on John Michael Greer's book, A World Full of Gods, I'm going to take some time to explore and elaborate on what I think is the main flaw ...
The Disillusioned Apprentice
One reason I have been largely silent in this blog over the course of this month is I have been, admittedly, undergoing a kind of disillusionment regarding the Archdruid of AODA, John Michael Greer. O...
Best of 100
In honor of my 100th post to this blog, I thought I'd look back over all my previous posts and highlight some of particular interest. Rest assured, I'm always striving to make the next hundred even be...
Lacuna: Ego & Flux
The second mind-fraction in the January Lacuna series, inspired by a discussion several months ago about the Buddhist concept of "antama," or "no-self" and how it might fit into a Cetic/Druidic worldv...
Intellectual Lacuna: Religion & Politics
Consider this a mid-winter cleaning.For most of my life (i.e. all those years I was "in school"), the time just after the holidays served as a transition into a new semester. The projects and papers o...
Liquids Not as Risky as First Feared
This is not a poem, because who reads poems?Remember when you put the creamer in my hand, and I said it was small and cold and like your heart? But what did I say first? That it was good.(Remember bef...
The Many & The One : A Look at the Common Purposes of Polytheism & Monotheism
The following is my response to Ule (a.k.a. Robin Artisson), who left an interesting comment to a recent post of mine (which was, in retrospect, a bit whiney of me, for which I apologize). Please take...
Debate & Gratitude: An Interlude
I get really annoyed at bloggers who censor comments and only allow posts praising or agreeing with them. One blog in particular (I won't say which, as it would be unfair and this isn't a platform for...
The Bored Inhuman Falls in Love with Pears, Again
One day common people, endowed with common sense, are going to get bored with being inhuman or, rather, with being continually dehumanized by wealth. And they will get rid of it, even if philosophers ...
The Horror of Insects
With my usual obsessive compulsiveness, I've gone out and bought three more books by Annie Dillard (luckily for me, all three have been collected into a single volume, so I do not have to be as embarr...
Modern Myths about Christianity Series
What We Know & How We Know It - Part III
Texts, Truths and Traditions:A Study in Three PartsIn a recent post, blogger Robin Artisson, proposed this intriguing question: "What if the entire New Testament was a construct, a forgery, a fake? Wh...
God is Not Great, Neither are You
Thank You for Sharing - Some Guidelines
Witness to the Ordinary