Village Witch a-Wandering..some notes from a Pagan pilgrim
I am home from a month in Britain. It was a working…
View ArticleThe Invisible Zoological Museum
Oor Wullie, Dundee Our guest house in Dundee was a stunner with…
View ArticleLighting Signal Fires in Tower Time
I’ve written rather a lot about Tower Time. For Cassandra figures like me, there is nothing satisfying about seeing visions come to fruition. We are experiencing the roiling change, the fear, the...
View ArticleNo Apologies
I often find myself apologizing for not writing when the fact is I’m just not blogging. And I’m tired of apologizing for that. Or really, for anything. So, the glitch at my website is fixed now—thanks...
View ArticleThe Gem of the Ocean
spinning a different sort of world Social media is filled with the anguish of thoughtful people and also idiots, none of whom can see a clear way ahead in the current presidential race. America, as you...
View ArticleMake a List
Remember I said this is Tower Time? How I told you it would be challenging and you might be scared and hurt? I hear you, dear ones. Time now to do what we know needs to be done. See to your spiritual...
View ArticleSome thoughts on ways to be in the world
Idealogical purity…how is that a thing in such a richly diverse and delicious world? Perhaps we all need to try to see who that Other really is. We might even try that before “othering” them in the...
View ArticleTonight–Glass Ceilings
Yes, I am watching the DNC tonight because I want to relish this moment. Women have had the vote nationally for fewer than a hundred years. My grandmother was an adult woman when the battle for women’s...
View ArticleFor All the BOBs, from an Old PUMA
I have been a registered Independent since college days. And in 2008, I was a PUMA (Party Unity My Ass), if you remember those, and voted Green in two elections. So for my friends and acquaintances who...
View ArticleJoy, and an ode to Her
My “power” playlist starts with Copland’s Appalachian Spring, from there to the Moldau by Smetana, then the Rach 5, continues with Orff’s Carmina Burana and ends with Beethoven’s Ninth. Sometimes I...
View ArticleLammastide in My Moonstruck Soul
So much has happened to me this year, the year I turned sixty. It has been a year of marvels and changes, perhaps even transformation. Now that I have more years behind me than ahead of me (as I told...
View ArticleLong Time Passing
Mercy, mercy. I have been on the road for most of this year, it seems. This morning in the wee-est of hours, I ate the remnants of a very good cobb salad, packed my duffle-bag and took the shuttle to...
View ArticleThrough a Glass, Darkly
Today was a tarot day in my world. I’ve been reading cards for a long time and I have a regular gig on Tuesday afternoons at our local witch shop, Asheville Raven and Crone. Today I did a double...
View ArticleThe Tower Time Documents, Uncut
Nota bene–these are the Tower Time essays as they are right now. Some are rough, some short, some rambling. I offer them here in one place for those new readers who are curious and for those of you who...
View ArticleFire and Ice, Frost and Flame
scrying fire Communities are awkward, tangled-up and glorious messes. Many of us have fantasies of the intersecting Olympic rings as the model for strong and free-standing communities that are...
View ArticlePreaching Justice
conundrums I had a wonderful and inspiring experience this afternoon. I was invited to offer the benediction for the Moral Monday rally in my home town. The organizers reckon there were 2500-3000...
View ArticleThe Veil of Memory
carved turnips There’s a big holiday at the end of the month–ghosts and candy, pumpkins and witches. We’ve come to call this now-secular holiday of Irish immigrants Hallowe’en.There is another...
View ArticleEast of the Sun and West of the Moon
the road, ever, on and on In preparing for my appearance at FaerieCon this weekend, I have been spending some time with the beautiful and difficult fairy tale “East of the Sun and West of the Moon.”...
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