I suppose everyone has been talking recently about the shooting at Fort Hood. It's been difficult for me to wrap my head around. I remember a time, eight years ago when the towers fell, everyone seemed full of rage and fear and thoughts of revenge,...
Topics: druidry, fear, grief, healing, love, meditation, modern culture, peace, prayer

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Although I've been slowly cultivating a personal practice of meditation and ritual as a solitary Druid for several years now, until last week I'd only ever participated in exactly one Pagan group rite — and then, not even as a Pagan myself,.
Topics: aesthetics, altar, AODA, community, druidry, holiday, practice, ritual

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There is no going back. We consent to our own destruction, with the passing of time, with the changing seasons, with the restless intensity of living and breathing. Above the cold concrete and glass of the city skyline, sharp-wedged forms of birds wheel..
Topics: blogging, choice, creativity, peace, poetry

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The November issue of Pagan Pages is up, along with my column Song of a Daily Druid . This month's column, " The No-Time Before Beginning ," confronts the sometimes less-than-ideal reality of sickness and loneliness during these times of...
Topics: autumn, body, druidry, health, holiday, illness, pagan, publication

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No one mourns that the body is dark. I do not mourn that my body, thick with muscle and skin and blood, is dark inside, opaque, layer upon layer of translucent flesh wrapped around hard white bone so densely no light can get in. Is bone white? I have...
Topics: autumn, beauty, body, death, fear, grief, holiday, memory

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