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Fractal Yin and Yang
A guest post from my favorite almanack maker, Bill Felker. And so we see in Plants and all of Nature the Word of God. Like any Scripture, Earth’s Matter is subject to our Doubt. But to the one who...
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20 Questions About Bhakti
by Sonya Lea In January of this year, I celebrated my fiftieth birthday in India. Ten years earlier, my Zen master told me I needed to go to India. But I had resisted, mostly due to my fear of being...
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Memory Lapse, Taxonomy, the Platonic Fallacy & The Common Sense
By Bill Felker Talk of mysteries! Think of our life in nature,–daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it,–rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common...
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Late Summer
Another great essay from Bill Felker’s lovely essays about his seasonal observations in Yellow Springs, Ohio, taken from Poor Will’s Almanack. This is from August 2004: When I get up before five these...
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The Autumn of Life
by Edia Stanford-Bruce The year I turned 40, I disappeared. It had been coming on gradually, this “fading,” but I waved it away as the mere product of an over-active imagination or peri-menopausal...
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Skullduggery
by Reverend Judith Laxer I made a pact with my cat Wanda when she was about 3 or 4 years old. She was resting her head in the palm of my left hand, while I petted her from the tip of her nose to the...
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Descent: A Holy Longing
By Ruby Sara The radiators in our building came on two days ago. Their ominous and persistent tapping and clanging will now be our constant companion ’til spring. I admit to feeling a small thrill, the...
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Counting Leaves
Another great essay from Bill Felker’s lovely essays about his seasonal observations in Yellow Springs, Ohio, taken from Poor Will’s Almanack. This is from November, 2005: Thus times do shift; each...
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Who Is Santa Lucia?
By Joanna Powell Colbert By Joanna Powell Colbert One of the most charming customs of the Yuletide season is that of the Lucy Bride. She is the young woman or girl who wears a crown of candles on her...
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My Favorite Calendars
Photo by Melissa Gayle West [this is a reprise of the article I wrote two years ago, but I've added a few gems here and there, including reader recommendations] I love this time period between the end...
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20 Questions About Bhakti
by Sonya Lea In January of this year, I celebrated my fiftieth birthday in India. Ten years earlier, my Zen master told me I needed to go to India. But I had resisted, mostly due to my fear of being...
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Memory Lapse, Taxonomy, the Platonic Fallacy & The Common Sense
By Bill Felker Talk of mysteries! Think of our life in nature,–daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it,–rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common...
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Late Summer
Another great essay from Bill Felker’s lovely essays about his seasonal observations in Yellow Springs, Ohio, taken from Poor Will’s Almanack. This is from August 2004: When I get up before five these...
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The Autumn of Life
by Edia Stanford-Bruce The year I turned 40, I disappeared. It had been coming on gradually, this “fading,” but I waved it away as the mere product of an over-active imagination or peri-menopausal...
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Skullduggery
by Reverend Judith Laxer I made a pact with my cat Wanda when she was about 3 or 4 years old. She was resting her head in the palm of my left hand, while I petted her from the tip of her nose to the...
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Descent: A Holy Longing
By Ruby Sara The radiators in our building came on two days ago. Their ominous and persistent tapping and clanging will now be our constant companion ’til spring. I admit to feeling a small thrill, the...
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Counting Leaves
Another great essay from Bill Felker’s lovely essays about his seasonal observations in Yellow Springs, Ohio, taken from Poor Will’s Almanack. This is from November, 2005: Thus times do shift; each...
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Who Is Santa Lucia?
By Joanna Powell Colbert By Joanna Powell Colbert One of the most charming customs of the Yuletide season is that of the Lucy Bride. She is the young woman or girl who wears a crown of candles on her...
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My Favorite Calendars
Photo by Melissa Gayle West I love this time period between the end of one year and the beginning of a new one, when my new calendar is still empty and the old one is full of memories. I comb through...
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Pagan Lent
First published in 2002 at School of the Seasons. When I mention the word “Lent” around my pagan friends, a curious thing happens. I watch as their faces go blank, they look away as if to say, “That’s...
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