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Nature as Transformer

We are part of our planet’s four Elementals, made of the substances of Earth and Water, breathing the Air, created with the sun’s Fire. The natural world constantly is transforming, often being both model and metaphor. Many explorations of this relationship are available to you here.

  • Birch Trees at Winter Solstice

Winter Solstice: A Wedding of Dark and Light

Birch Trees at Winter Solstice Winter Solstice: shortest day, longest night. Summer Solstice is the opposite. The celebrations around these two events [...]

Winter Solstice: A Wedding of Dark and Light2025-01-08T20:28:16+00:00
  • House of Mary in Ephesus

Advent: Season of Waiting, Wonder and Journeying

House of the Virgin Mary in Ephesus Advent: Season of Waiting, Wonder and Journeying The word Advent comes from the Latin adventus, [...]

Advent: Season of Waiting, Wonder and Journeying2025-01-08T20:28:17+00:00
  • Dolman

All Hallows and the Crone

For Linda Nenno, Beth Phillips, Ed Wood Photo by K. Mitch Hodge on Unsplash A friend sent an email asking what did [...]

All Hallows and the Crone2025-01-08T20:28:18+00:00
  • Photo by Victor Hanacek

Autumnal Equinox: “WHAT IF?” Bell Curves

I’ve played “WHAT IF?” with a bell curve as a metaphor for many years because it offers a framework that helps [...]

Autumnal Equinox: “WHAT IF?” Bell Curves2025-01-08T20:28:20+00:00
  • Ruth and Boaz

Lughnasadah: A Place of Grace, A Margin of Mercy

Lughnasadh or Lughnasa is an official Irish holiday (Lúnasa) and Gaelic festival marking the beginning of the harvest season. Historically, it was widely observed [...]

Lughnasadah: A Place of Grace, A Margin of Mercy2025-01-08T20:28:22+00:00
  • May Basket

May Day

Photo Credit: Lazar Gugleta, Unsplash I love May Day, the first day of the merry month of May. As a child we [...]

May Day2024-08-17T23:31:27+00:00
  • Equinox Sunset

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 [...]

Meat and Salt: Equinox2024-08-17T23:31:30+00:00
  • Bees and Honeycomb

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 [...]

Making Honey from My Old Failures2026-01-13T00:11:38+00:00
  • Zauschneria in snow

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. [...]

A New Year’s Deep-hidden Seeds2023-04-06T22:34:50+00:00
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