April 8, a Red-Letter Day!
Monday, April 8 will be a day that a lot of people will remember as the Solar Eclipse of 2024. With the path of totality passing over a region housing more than 31 million, it will be a shared experience that many will hold for the rest of their lives.
I with I could be one of them. We’ll have a partial eclipse here in California, but the path of totality is far away and I can spare neither the time nor money to get there right now. Too bad, because the next North American total solar eclipse won’t be until the 2040s. I’m likely not to be around by then.
What I get as a consolation prize, though, is that also on April 8, my new book will be released. ROUND WE DANCE: Creating Meaning Through Seasonal Rituals has been long in coming, but it’s finally going to be here!
If you happen to live in the San Francisco Bay Area, I hope you will join me for a book release party in downtown Oakland, at the kinfolx community space on Telegraph Ave. The party will be on Saturday, April 13, from 3-6 pm. I’ll be reading from the new book and signing books for guests.
You can order the new book at any bookstore, or at Powells.
And be sure to get eclipse glasses for looking at the Sun–you can suffer severe and permanent eye damage if you look at the Sun without them.
Photo by Jan Haerer on Unsplash
Mark Green
Author of ATHEOPAGANISM: An Earth-Honoring Path Rooted in Science and ROUND WE DANCE: Creating Meaning Through Seasonal Rituals, Mark Green is the initiator of the Atheopagan path and editor at the Atheopaganism blog. He volunteers as a staffer to the Atheopagan Society Council to support the growth of Atheopaganism throughout the world. In his home of Sonoma County, California, in the occupied ancestral lands of the Southern Pomo and Coast Miwok peoples, he is best known as an environmental activist and founder of Sonoma County Conservation Action, the largest environmental activism group in his region. He continues to work in the conservation sphere, focusing particularly on protection of natural landscapes on California's federal public lands.
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Rosa
Thank you for all you do!! You gave my beliefs an actual title!!