And Heavy Mortal Hopes…
1 So I admit it. I let the food run low for Disko and Fortnight over the weekend. It looked like there was just enough Science Diet to make it […]
Spiritual
My Monday Wipeout
[Through back-channels I heard the story of a Canadian boy who may have been studied in Toronto in the 1990s. He had some disability, possibly Downs Syndrome, and it was […]
“Letting Your Spirits Catch You,” Part 1
I mentioned the wonderful little party I attended last week at the home of Owen O Suilleabhain. I was there just long enough to meet everyone and hear the young […]
The January Curse
[The idea that any person or family could be cursed by a single month is one thing. The chance that there could be any validity to it is another. From […]
The Elfin Ring
(A Reflection from December 2012) 1 In many parts of the world it’s been believed that we share the earth with natural presences often envisioned as small, magically powerful, humanlike […]
A Dance for Dorothy
It’s time to bid the earthly farewell to Dorothy Louise Clough (August 1, 1923-December 5, 2017). She was one of the grand dames of East Aurora and a matron spirit […]
Shelter
[There’s the old tale about the man walking on the beach where countless starfish have been pitched up by a wave to dehydrate and die at low tide. He spends […]
Bacchus at Halloween
People can talk to you all they want about the old meanings – the spiritual significance – of Halloween/Samhain/the Celtic Day of the Dead. Intellectual understanding is a lot different […]
King Number One
Either I mistake your shape and making quite, Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite Call’d Robin Goodfellow… William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Halloween for most of […]
Magnus and the Hidden People
Traditions about races of magical, more-or-less human beings – fairies, leprechauns, Little People – exist in the folklore of many parts of the world. If the average person has an […]