Another post from the Dept. of Post-Collapse Studies. The icicle doesn’t fall far from the eave.* Click on the photo below to read the beautiful accompanying blog post. * If you missed it last year, please visit my post about my love of building snow houses as a child.
Today my daughter and I returned from another realm, where we spent a weekend immersed in myth, story, music, and art. Here are photos taken just before the Good Faeries Ball (I recycled my Halloween costume for this): And just before the Bad Fairies Ball: We also attended panels of writers and artists, including Brian [...]
Bittersweet berries, from the vine on my front porch. Beautiful! But they have their shadow side. Bittersweet is an invasive plant. It is work to keep it out of flower beds, and it tends to climb trees. That’s its nature. So we wore crowns of bittersweet, and we thought about the shadow parts of our [...]
The critters below were watching me warily from the undergrowth as I walked the paths near John’s Pond. One can never be too careful when walking in the woods.
Today on an NPR blog I read about a symposium (at Concordia College in Minnesota) regarding “re-enchantment.” The posting caught my eye because “re-enchantment” is one of my forms of sacred play. From the College’s website: Awakening to Wonder: Re-enchantment in a Post-Secular Age Sept. 14-15 The symposium will explore the role of wonder in [...]
After several days in the woods with more than a dozen women, I’m slowly adjusting to the indoor world. The rooms seem cramped and stuffy, but I suppose that shouldn’t be surprising, after living outdoors for a few days. There were many memorable moments. One of my favorites was watching a huge flock of hundreds [...]
Earth, air, fire and water today. Watching the little fishies, the granddaughters, splashing, swimming, playing, immersing themselves in coolness and fun. Soaking it in – the sky with wind-blown clouds, the sandy shore, the strong summer sun, and precious water. We are made of cycling earth, air, fire, water, constantly renewed. No wonder beach play [...]
