Good Omens
January 22, 2021
Inauguration comes from the Latin augur: “one who sees favorable omens for success”. (The word auspicious comes from this as well.) In Ancient Rome the
As Above, So Below
January 14, 2021
The turmoil and uncertainty we’re feeling isn’t just a reaction to what’s happening in the world. It’s a two-way street we’re on; a symbiotic, interdependent
Sharon Blackie
January 9, 2021
I’ve been a member of Dr. Sharon Blackie’s online program, This Mythic Life, for almost a year now. Each month, Sharon writes on mythic themes
Wise Elder
December 11, 2020
She told me she was 2300 years old. I told her she didn’t look a day over 2250. She said cool never heard that one
The Haunting of America
October 26, 2020
Though Halloween evolved from All Hallows Eve, a Christian holiday honoring the dead saints (hallows), its origins lie in the much older Celtic festival of
Animal Senses
September 21, 2020
I began to become convinced that this way of seeing is our most ordinary, normal, human, way of encountering our world; that in the absence
How to Save Democracy #03
September 18, 2020
Make It Personal Do you know any nonvoters or undecided voters? Times are tough and there are a lot of disenfranchised and overwhelmed humans out
How to Save Democracy #02
September 16, 2020
Vote. No matter how futile it all feels, we have to vote like our lives depend on it because our lives absolutely depend on it.