Tag: Paganism
Bright Beings
Bright ones you are always with me, Giving me strength to continue, when none is left. I see you every time I see the love in a child’s eyes, Or in the beauty of the…
A Common Celtic Thread: A Book Review of "Brighid's Mantle"
Can a Pagan and Christian ever find common ground? I am very happy to say that it appears so! In this book two friends from different traditions, but connected by a common Celtic…
Landscapes of Truth
Desert - show me to myself, strip me naked of shame and pretence so that the bones of my soul ring a melody unconfined and joyfully free. let your emptyness inform me, until the wild…
Walking the Green Path: An Herbalist Discovers Her Calling in Assisi
I never set out to be an herbalist. As a graduate student I was offered a scholarship to study art history in Rome. My plan was to explore Neoplatonism as it was expressed in Renaissance…
Song of a White Hare
I search far and wide for you in forests full of falling leaves Through meadows wet with dew underneath a sky that grieves You think you see me running through the misty air, but then…
Tree Spirit
Little figure in the bark Whisper to me Like the rustle Of leaves in the wind… Eyes of the tree Speak unto me Of all the many Lifetimes you’ve lived… Your deep, Secret wisdom Can…
Riding with the Hunt
The leaves above me rustle and whisper, glints of golden sunlight filtering through an opulent canopy of orange and gold. Now and then, a creature scurries by in the undergrowth and fallen leaves.…
Storytelling: A Ritual of Change
It seems that, while last semester’s coursework and circumstances brought me to think a lot about the notion of home and identity, this year is, instead, placing a focus on story telling. It could, perhaps,…