Musings on Vocation
As a teacher and student, I like to start my explorations into a topic by defining my terms and looking into the origins of key words. I won a season of Lincoln-Douglas debates on my defining “revolution” to exclude the American Revolution, thereby not allowing my opponents to justifying their arguments using that war. Mean? [...]
What’s up with this “aura fluffing” thing?
It happens often enough to comment upon. Some unsuspecting newcomer attends a Becoming event or stops by our booth at Pagan Pride Day and is asked if they want their aura fluffed. You can imagine their surprise, and sometimes horror. They may have heard that Becoming is a “well respected” group in the DC Pagan [...]
In the hospital waiting room
Sitting vigil with the ill or dying or their family is an awesome task in the original sense of the word. It is a sacred and frightening and joyful and uncomfortable and intimate honor and duty. I hope that these words and ideas are helpful to you when you find yourself sitting in a hospital [...]
Perspectives, Flame Wars, and Divinity
There was an amazing exhibit at the US Botanic Garden, titled sLow Life, that featured time-lapse photos and videos showing how plants move and respond to their environment, when from our human perspective plants are relatively static. This got me thinking about how our perspective really determines our experience of the world. So much of [...]
Death: the great adventure! No refunds
I woke up from a dream this morning in which I was visited by a young woman and her family to talk about the death of her husband and to plan a memorial service for him. The woman primarily needed someone to listen to her as she worked through her emotions surrounding his death and [...]
The Sea
I belong here and nowhere and everywhere I am the sea that rises up and takes back Sides are being taken and lines are being drawn I wash over opposing armies indiscrimately I am the sea that rises up and takes back Hate and love, right and wrong, life and death These mean nothing to [...]
Prayer to Hanuman
Om Shri Hanumate Namah Greetings to you, Lord Hanuman! You are the Remover of Distress. You are the Lord of the Senses. You are an ardent listener, always so keen to listen. You are a Great Warrior, capable of supporting all. You are the sentry at the door of the Divine Abode. Swift as thought [...]
Divine Nature/Nature of the Divine
Thoughts spurred by a a tsunami and cyber-citizens across the globe On December 28, 2004, the Guardian, a British newspaper, ran an essay by Martin Kettle asking how can a religious people explain the deaths of thousands caused by a natural disaster. In his article Kettle mused on the difference between the explanations given by [...]
Homage to the River Anahnanah
The river for herself The river as herself without human reference without outward justification her purpose known to herself her path known to many The river is a boundary impossible to cross without sacrifice. The river is a fount of bounty for those who ask. The river is a road to the underworld. The river [...]
Death is a healing
Death is a healing torn and tired spirit stretched impossibly over worn, fragile flesh tears shed and wounds scarcely healed white scars; red eyes smells that live forever scents no one else notices pungent in the pinched room electronic bleeps keep time with the labored heart a torturous tarantella a ghost fist loosens its grip [...]
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