The Problem of the Pagan “Us and Them”

April 30, 2012 By
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When I questioned the place of compassion in Pagan and Polytheist philosophy a couple of weeks back, I got an interesting response from one of my readers, "LaurelhurstLiberal". She wrote, "Now, about compassion: as a Heathen Reconstructionist, this is one of the big questions I'm still trying to puzzle out. Right now, it seems to me that a Heathen should be a good neighbor and a good citizen, but isn't necessarily supposed to have capital-C Compassion for everybody in the world. There are … [Read more...]

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Stock The Pantry and Tend The Dirt

August 9, 2011 By

I don't can. My mom has in the past, but she never taught me how. I borrowed a big book on canning from her once, and it sat in my kitchen for an entire Autumn, unopened. I don't pickle. My grandma did, on my father's side. She was from the South, a land of pickling strange things. I didn't ask her much about pickling before her mind went, and she passed away a few years back. She took that knowledge with her. I don't harvest, in any literal sense. We have the frames for raised beds in our … [Read more...]

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