Here is a photo of last year’s emerging snowdrops. I took the photo on March 7, 2010. And here is a photo, taken today, of the spot where those snowdrops appeared last March. What do you think? Do they have a chance? Will they continue to sleep beneath the snow and ice until [...]
Written on Christmas Eve, 1513 I salute you. I am your friend, and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not. But there is much, very much, that, while I cannot give it, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts [...]
For those interested in myth, metaphor, and meaning, above and below are links to the movie Mythic Journeys I mentioned in my last post. The stop motion “Bone Orchard” part of the film was screened at the event I just attended; to see the rest, I purchased the 2 DVD set. The imagery is beautiful, [...]
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 [...]
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood…
Today a Religious Naturalism email list sent the poem The Enigma We Answer by Living (reprinted at the bottom of this post) by Alison Hawthorne Deming , which was featured on the Panhala website. What does nature compel you to do? My father was compelled to chase butterflies, moths, and other insects. As a child, [...]
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.
