Prayer to Brighid
“Goddes of the Flame,” digital collage by Angela Raincatcher, 2007. O holy Brighid of the Eternal Flame You who inspire the hearts and minds of the poets, warriors, and healers, You of the flaming hair and starry cloak, We honor you and give you thanks. You breathe the words that evoke beauty, honorable deeds, and [...]
What is magic?
What is magic? The young child asks. Imagine, if you will, a scintillating light wandering through all time and space, linking my heart to you heart, to the heart of our cat, to the heart of the pine tree, to the heart of a virus, to the heart of the homeless man across the street, [...]
Things I Hate
Stephen Harrod Buhner, in Ensouling Language: On the Art of Nonfiction and the Writer’s Life, says “Everything you hate is everything you stand against. It is everything that you oppose, that you write to change, that you want to be a part of changing, that you must participate in changing in order to respect yourself. [...]
Breaking the Bonds
As part of the 2011 Brigid Poetry Festival, I am posting a poem I wrote a couple of years ago as my grandmother was dying. Geburah: Breaking the Bonds A growing tumor in her brain breaks down the walls between life and death between form and force between here and gone As she falls down [...]
Invocation to Kali
Kali is destroying old boundaries by Alicepopkorn / CC BY 2.0 Invocation to Kali Penetrate me, Kali Move through my every pore Consume me in thy fire Until I am no more. Melt down my skins of iron That shield me from my wounds Break my bones of falsehoods That would support me to my [...]
Deeper at Artomatic: Tammy Vitale
Tammy Vitale’s inspiration comes from many places — her own restlessness and boredom, the nature of the materials at hand and a drive to learn how to work with them, her dreams, and other artists’ work. After I saw her work at last year’s Artomatic, I’ve been wanting to connect with her. Being an introvert, I [...]
Deeper at Artomatic: Alyson M. Olander
Artomatic opens tomorrow and I’m imagining a series of post about artists whose work is informed and inspired by their spiritual journeys and interactions with the sacred all around them. Artists who dive deep into their souls and bring up images and visions to share of their journey. Artists who intentionally bring a spiritual dimension [...]
Ambivalence of Lammas
For many people, Lammas is a time of celebration of the first harvests. For me, this time of year is a struggle, especially with the blast furnace heat and/or oppressive humidity of the last three places I’ve lived (Oklahoma, Houston, and DC). In August, I feel like someone forgot to close Balor’s evil eye after [...]
Everybody Wordle!
From Wordle: From What’s up with this aura fluffing thing? From Prayer to Hanuman. I think this one is my favorite. From Dedication to Bridghid
Signs from the Gods
An email I received from this blog has sparked my thinking. A young person asks about the significance of signs found in the natural world. I was looking out from a bedroom window and saw some ravens. For some reason, I counted them, and there were nine. Again for some reason, I felt that this [...]
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