Meat and Salt: Equinox
When I first began thinking about Shakespeare’s King Lear and arrogance, I looked in the text for the youngest daughter’s response to her father’s [...]
Arrogance
My Shakespearian actor husband, Chuck Wilcox, began his Boulder Colorado Shakespeare Festival career playing Kent in King Lear. Kent is a truth-telling peer and [...]
A Story that Saved my Life
In the 2022 cycle of the Hero/Heroine's journey at Home Again Nancy King commented that she had never been Home until now. I am [...]
Making Honey from My Old Failures
And the golden bees were making white combs, and sweet honey, from my old failures. —Antonio Machado, translation by Robert Bly [...]
The Return of Selkie Boy
In the Hero/Heroine’s Journey the Return is a time of integration on many levels. Jon Wiley offers a new perspective as his Return proves [...]
A New Year’s Deep-hidden Seeds
New Year’s is traditional Goal Setting time, and telling jokes about how soon those resolutions slide away. Since childhood I’ve taken this ritual seriously. [...]
Winter Solstice: Sol Invictus
In the least we see Everything. In the turning The Way shows itself. —D. Malcolm Wells, 2021 Kinnikinnick [...]
Hanukkah Dreidel and Gambling with God
The word Hanukkah generally translates from Hebrew to mean dedication. It is an eight-day celebration of a good blessing story. The dreidel is a [...]
Giving Thanksgiving for the Noes in Our Lives
At times in my life I’ve received a Great No that upended my life and created an unimagined future. At other times a little [...]
Cross-quarter Samhain: All Hallows and the Element Air
Photo by Frantisek Duris on Unsplash The end of October is All Hallows, the thinnest of thin times between the different dimensions, [...]
