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Yes, the plague is killing thousands! and Yes, the oppressors are brutal! and Yes, the...

The fnords are the cliche phrases and stock tropes that obscure the truth without actually...

This period of change isn't over and will not be for some time. That means...

But on my shopping trips over the past few weeks I've been struck by how...

If we accept the Way of the Fool, we can keep perfect hope even at...

It is Papa Legba (not "the devil") whom we meet at the crossroads. And what...

A bit more than twenty years ago, after my 30th birthday, I went away for...

We might find each of these groups sympathetic. Artists, poets, nature lovers, advocates for alternative...

This image brings to mind the way in which the solid, rational, straight-line world supports...

Given the significance of Douglass to the abolition movement, this fight with Covey might fairly...

I seldom remember my dreams, but sometimes they are humdingers. From this one came a...

She is the totem of the United States, and if her attributes seem contradictory and...

There is no avoiding the breaking, the cracking, the flaws. But it is up to...

Divine voices work mysteriously

Fifty is a big landmark. And now that I've almost gotten there, in some ways...

but I am a magician, a poet in the realm of acts and what I...

As I considered what I need for this coming year, and what I think we...

The year remains New until Imbolc, more or less midway between December's winter solstice and...

I've done it every year since, and I'm come to think of it as keeping...

At first glance the 1980s action movie Roadhouse seems a world away from the eight-century-old...

Magic gives us the power to believe that we, individually, are important. In that, we...

The 1621 celebration was not identified by anyone as the "First Thanksgiving" until 1841, when...

Death is the great mystery, the undiscovered country, the unavoidable confrontation with the boundaries of...

But as the creepier side of the season reminds us, sometimes unwelcome presences can push...

The Pagan community is growing more diverse. This is a good thing! But it means...

Imagine that we could hop in our TARDIS and jump back to the Golden Age...

The social-media-viral cult of personality around Greta Thunberg is a glamour being cast as what...

It strikes me that, if ritual is "poetry in the realm of acts", then a...

I share this so that you may know it, if when next you grieve (for...

And our society is too much Aresian and too little Athenian. We are too ready...