It’s the night before the most important US Presidential election of my lifetime.
The entire world has a stake in the outcome: a decent and adequate leader with sound values and qualifications versus a mad, incoherent, hateful man obsessed with prosecuting his grievances and who has surrounde...
Happy Hallows, everyone, and may your celebrations be all the things listed in the title!
I’m off to go walk in the old rural cemetery…
I improvised this guided meditation for the Atheopagan Saturday Zoom Mixer’s Hallows ritual on the theme I wrote about here, and people liked it so I thought I would write it down before I forgot it.
First, get comfortable. Take a deep breath and feel that life-giving oxygen like a wave runni...
I am fascinated by the tradition of the sin-eater.
Found in several European cultures but primarily known from southern Wales and parts of England adjacent, the tradition is that after someone dies, their body is laid out with food atop its chest or on a sideboard next to it, with a small co...
So it’s Harvestide, the season of the autumnal equinox. The time of gathering in, looking back over the year, celebrating what has come.
It’s been a remarkable year for me, after a couple of very, very lean ones. This year, I took over as Interim Executive Director at my job at the new year; ...