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Sometimes friends see you more clearly than you see yourself. A few months ago, John Halstead wrote about my particular brand of small-p, backyard paganism in a post so flattering of my approach that I was embarrassed to read it. It was a profound gift, to have my practice reflected back to me. There’s precious […]

Sunflowers are blooming, dragonflies are hunting, and cicadas are droning where I live. Sunflowers blooming in my home garden Farmers’ markets are full to bursting with tomatoes and other early summer delights. WeatherBug lights my phone up with heat advisory warnings on the daily now. Ah, summer in Austin. When it’s still beautiful but beginning […]

In a culture of life: We would cooperate with other nations to mitigate the effects of climate change, in order to protect our descendants from its consequences. We would not factory farm other animals for food. We would protect the integrity of Earth’s waterways, because water is life. We would beg for forgiveness we clearly […]

I’ve had neither time nor energy to do focused spiritual work since Spring Equinox, much less write about it. Both personal and professional life have felt overwhelming in recent weeks. Personally I’ve been attending to ongoing recovery from family-of-origin issues; adapting to the parenting tasks at hand, as my children grow and develop into tweenagers; […]