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Come All Ye People Come – Tonight Is the Second Candle

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For some of us, our love of the world is so passionate that we cannot ask it to wait until we are enlightened. ~ Joanna Macy, World as Lover, World as Self Tonight we celebrate the second Sun Day of our Advent Solstice Sun-Wheel prayer circle. Advent simply means the coming of. So every Sun … Read more

Not Wordless. Instead, Let’s Call It Word Wednesday.

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(click for a more readable version). Here’s the thing. Words matter. So, we are NOT going to call these insane thugs by the name of our beloved Queen of Heaven anymore. And we are not going to use the word Islamic in association with them because what they are doing is, in fact, an abomination … Read more

An Email to Nowhere. Please Help.

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The latest update on my sorry saga with Facebook is here if you want to read it. If not, I don’t blame you. Believe me, I would much rather focus on more important, empowering topics. Thanks for your ongoing interest and support. It truly means the world to me.     Just this very afternoon, … Read more

Vows to Brighid

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Blessed Woman, come to me Woman of the Fires, Woman of Poetry Blessed Woman, come to me Woman of healing, Woman of skillful means. ~ Song to Brighid, from the Alexander Carmichael Carmina Gadelica as arranged by Lisa Thiel Today we celebrate the beautiful gifts of the saint and Divine One, Brighid. For many, many … Read more

Blessings of Solstice Eve – Welcome, Mother Night

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Deepest Dark Blessings to you and yours! It is the Eve of the Winter Solstice. This is the great celebration of Mother Night. As far as we know, our ancestors did not have atomic clocks or satellites to help them dissect Time to the nanosecond. Instead, they had to figure by their keen observation, by … Read more