“What if,” I say idly, “I started celebrating Christmas again, but in an Arthurian sort of way?” “Camelot is the Christian wart on the face of pagan England,” my husband grumps.
Living
Notes From Swannanoa – Part IV
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It has been 88 days since Helene. Some days, it feels like years since the flooding, mudslides, and high winds forever altered Swannanoa’s landscape and the lifescapes of the people who live here. On other days, it feels as though it were surely only yesterday that she tore through these mountains.
Culture
Researchers claim building Stonehenge involved Neolithic politics
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New research on the origins of Stonehenge suggests that building the monument may have had political as well as religious motivations for unifying the people of the region.
Living
Queer Solstice Tidings: interpreting the Holly King and Oak King as lovers instead of rivals
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It is my belief that modern queer practitioners have a responsibility to reinterpret, and even to create anew, myths and practices that enable us to more deeply connect to spirit in a way that affirms our sexuality, rather than ignoring it.
Europe
Bright Forest Longing
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The woods around my home in Arctic Norway were few and far between, mostly small birches barely taller than your average adult. Here in Åland, I met with real woods: tall bone-white birches, spruce, thick pines, bushy walnut groves. This vibrant life was everywhere, and all the while I was searching for graves.
Living
Where Do We Want to Go?
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December is a month of holiday festivities, near-nonstop sales advertisements, and many religious observations surrounding light. In the Northern Hemisphere, as we venture faster than dropping temperatures to the longest night and shortest day, it is only natural to think of the coming year and ask: where do we want to go?