Sunday evening I had the communal pleasure of being enveloped in the magic that is a Revels performance. This has come to be the crowning activity of the holiday season for our family, always much anticipated. The Revels are tradition bearers who bring the past to life to cast a light in the joyful present. [...]
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How can I tell you about the beauty of my creek? How can I tell you about the magic that is happening there every minute of the day and night? The mandalas that appear before my eyes, the patterns made of light and wind, water and tree? How, when two circles of ripples meet, diamond [...]
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A wonderful surprise of the annular eclipse at the new moon this month was the bounty of bright crescents produced by the moon traveling over the sun and projected on our outdoor walls as if by a hundred pinhole cameras. We were south of the path, so ours was a crescent sun rather than a [...]
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Magic is woven throughout the entire experience of Revels, but this year it manifested in the mythic form of Merlin, for California Revels visits the court of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere in the great hall at Camelot. Merlin (as performed by Kim Silverman) enchanted on the stage, and after the show, in the lobby, [...]
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In the deep thinking that goes into the imagining of a new book, I often begin with the words I want to use. Then the binding evolves from the content, as a means of best serving the words. Usually the very first practical concern I need to decide is the size. There are many other [...]
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Most of us know this little rhyme, to wish upon the first star we see at night, and if we say it with all our heart, it will come true. We learn it as children. We remember it because it rhymes. We repeat it as adults, just in case it might really be true. This [...]
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I’ve uploaded another new gallery to this site, of the three variants of my book Spelling Words. I’ve written extensively about the creation of this book elsewhere in the journal – you can follow the trackbacks at the bottom of the gallery page to read some of those posts. What I’ve probably never done is [...]
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Our cosmos danced for us as the Winter Solsice arrived, giving us on the west coast of the United States a full lunar eclipse just around midnight. My camera captured some of what I saw and felt, and also caught some extra magic that my eyes didn’t see. These photos, gained at great personal cost [...]
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The Holy Longing Tell a wise person, or else keep silent, because the mass man will mock it right away. I praise what is truly alive, what longs to be burned to death. In the calm water of the love-nights, where you were begotten, where you have begotten, a strange feeling comes over you, when [...]
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I have been thinking about circling. Last week I found myself in a discussion on a Facebook friend’s page, with someone on a very different spiritual path than mine. The friend whose page it was had quoted the Dalai Lama: “My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.” A Christian reader took issue with [...]
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