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Just a quick note to let you know we’re upgrading this site to http from https–if I am understanding this correctly. It is still safe but you may get a warning as you approach. You can choose to...
View ArticleLughnasadh Preparations
I’m working on the public Lammas ritual that Mother Grove Goddess Temple is hosting on Sunday afternoon in Malvern Hills Park. I rather fell in love with Tailtiu last year and wrote this invocation...
View ArticlePacked. Again.
and going to a place I’ve never been before. Philadelphia. I’ll be teaching and doing a ritual for Philadelphia Pagan Pride Day. The folks there are very fine–and funny and smart. Three of my favorite...
View ArticleAll Old, All New
This is a test sort of post. I haven’t written in so long and WordPress has changed everything to make it “better.”
View ArticleMastering Paragraphs
Trying another post to work on the formation of paragraphs. Bear with me, please. There is something very odd about not considering content. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy god. This may...
View ArticleAlmost there. I appreciate your patience…or are you even there?
This all feels so silly but once I can do this easily, I will do it more often. Really. I think I will. I can even do it from my phone as I travel. Gosh. I’m going to try a picture.
View ArticleHwaet!
I’ve been away from this for a while, as you well know. I’ve been traveling–a little more every year. Things I love and feel are important to me have sometimes fallen by the wayside of the Village...
View ArticleMorning in Appalachia
The weather has returned to its standard operating procedure, for which I am very grateful. I’ll be editing my Folkways book today and all weekend. I’d like to get it back to my editor asap. I’ve...
View ArticleAn Editing Adventure
I’m doing another book on Appalachian folkways, this one for Llewellyn. I turned it in to my editor on 12/1 and the team sent me notes last week. I was still working on the final plans for my niece’s...
View ArticleImbolc is Coming…
but first (or should I say “next”?) is Burns Night. Training for clergy is a jumble of reading, practical experience, war stories around a camp fire and spending good time listening to the clergy in...
View ArticleBrigid is Written in the Water
This essay first appeared in Global Goddess e-zine, a blessing that is missed in its absence. It’s almost Imbolc and I am sitting here, thawing my feet after an outdoor ceremony. We invoked Her Name,...
View ArticleBrigid Blessing Before Sleep
I often return to my old friend Carmichael’s Carmina Gadelica. As an act of veneration, I sometimes adapt traditional Brigid prayers for use by a more contemporary user. For the next few days–as we...
View ArticleIn Brigid’s Keeping
Another prayer as Imbolc approaches… Each night and each day, I speak the blessing of Brigid. I am under the shielding of Good Brigid each day, I am under the shielding of Good Brigid each night. I am...
View ArticleImbolc Memory 2016
I’ve Forgotten the Bhrat…again It is Imbolc and there is still much to do. With one eye, I am following the results out of Iowa and wishing NC had a caucus process because it seems so interesting. With...
View ArticleThe Bride’s Bed
…and about that cow. When I had a child at home, we did all kinds of things to prepare for holy days. Imbolc is especially nice for that. One of our favorites was making the Bride’s bed. In some...
View ArticleThe Rest of February
The beginning of this little month is so full of power and delight and poetry that I sometimes get to the third day of the month and wonder how there are so many days left. Our public ritual was...
View ArticleA Blessing and Prayer
So many of us are living with challenges, with pain, with frustration and fury. I wrote this yesterday for my Goddess-daughter and shared it on Facebook today. Now here it is, for you. Start with a...
View ArticleBooks, Virus Panic and Epsom Salts
I have been busily editing a book for Llewellyn called “roots, Branches, and Spirits: the Folkways and Witchery of Appalachia” (which will be out in February 2021) and writing a book as yet untitled...
View ArticleCan I Do This From My Phone?
There is a glitch on my computer’s interface with WordPress that will be fixed at some future point. So I am attempting this from my phone. Erm…testing. Testing.
View ArticleLove, in the Time of Towers
I’m writing a book (yes, another one, this time for Red Wheel/Weiser) so the shelter-in-place order from the governor gave me at-home time to write. And to garden. And to cook. And to focus on the...
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