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A Pedagogy of Gaia by Bart Everson: “The Other Equinox” (Part 1)

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The Boy Who Didn’t Believe in Autumn The peak of hurricane season comes on September 10, statistically speaking, but the season officially runs until the first of November. Hurricane formation is driven by warm water in the mid-Atlantic and the…

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 Category: A Pedagogy of Gaia, Bart Everson, Seasonal, seasonal    

Musings of a Pagan Mythicist: “Getting Down to Earth: Caring for Compost″ by Maggie Jay Lee

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There is something deeply spiritual about composting.  For years I’ve had a compost pile, really just a refuse heap confined by pig wire.  It was almost impossible to turn or to get at any of the finished compost.  The flies…

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 Category: Death and Life, Maggie Jay Lee, Musings of a Pagan Mythicist    

Starstuff, Contemplating: “Death is Life” by Jon Cleland Host

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We are assemblages of ancient atoms forged in stars – atoms organized by history to the point of consciousness, now able to contemplate this sacred Universe of which we are a tiny, but wondrous, part. Life is Death, and Death…

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 Category: death, Death and Life, Jon Cleland Host, life, science, Seasonal, Starstuff, Contemplating    

“Entering the Isle of Birds” by Anna Walther

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During the past year I’ve been learning to identify the bird calls I hear in my backyard. Some are obvious and easy to learn; I’ve recognized the strident screeches of blue jays and grackles for at least as long as…

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“Being a Spiritual Wallflower: How Humanistic Pagans can get off the wall and dance” by John Halstead

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Even under the influence of the narcotic draught, of which songs of all primitive men and peoples speak, or with the potent coming of spring that penetrates all nature with joy, these Dionysian emotions awake, and as they grow in…

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