I’ve added two galleries to my website showing new artwork. These books take as inspiration poems by Mary Austin, a writer of the West from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She wrote famously and lyrically of the American West and especially the desert, first of the eastern Sierra in California, and later of northern [...]
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This year for Brigid’s Day I made Her sunwise straw cross, symbol of the turning wheel of the year. This cross has equilateral arms, woven deosil around the center upright straw. I was fortunate to be gifted with a sheaf of wheat last May, so saved it away for Februrary, knowing I would want to [...]
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Beltane, Beltane, ribbons and love, blue skies and flowers, the lusty month of May! A page from one of my journals. The bright ribbons dance ouside my kitchen door, stirred by the breezes of the coming warmth. The Lord and the Lady at May Day, the time of the Sacred Marriage to make the land [...]
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Spring is approaching. Though we may be in the depths of winter snows, today marks the beginning of spring in the old Celtic calendar. The days are perceptibly getting longer. Known variously as Brigid’s Day, Imbolc, Candlemas or even plain old Groundhog Day, the first two days of February mark the midpoint on the Wheel [...]
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All Hallow’s Eve, Hallowe’en, Samhain, Day of the Dead, All Saints Day, All Souls Day, Dia de los Muertes. Another turn of the wheel. This sabbat is felt by some to be the holiest of all, when the veil between the worlds is said to be the thinnest, when we can invite our ancestors into [...]
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A friend asked me what I brought back with me from my trip to the east coast earlier this summer. Well, the list is long, some of it mighty personal, and I have already shared some of my experience of my calligraphy master class in a previous post. But one thing that has stuck in [...]
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A lesson we can learn from our herbal friends: when under the greatest stress, we can still aspire to our better natures. This quotation was given to me to letter as my annual contribution to Edy Chan’s Heart to Heart wall calendar; a labor of love I’ve been participating in since 1994. Almost every year [...]
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Threshold. An invitation to pass through a gateway, perhaps to a new way of life, perhaps to begin a voyage, or from the known to the unknown. For me, this image represents the completion of a yearlong spiritual journey which concludes with this dark moon, and the beginning of another one, commencing with the new [...]
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Frolicking and dancing in the predawn chill, to bring up the sun and welcome in the May! And you can see how well it worked, in this loudly cheered appearance of El Sol at Beltane in the Baylands this morning. We got there in time to see the Mad Molly dancers performing their silliness. And [...]
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Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote (When April with its sweet-smelling showers) The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, (Has pierced the drought of March to the root,) And bathed every veyne in swich licour (And bathed every vein (of the plants) in such liquid) Of which vertu engendred is the flour; [...]
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