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Legends are Lessons
Last week I finally had the opportunity to see the new Pixar movie ‘Brave’. The following day while at work, a friend asked what part of the movie I felt was the most impressive. He was referring, I...
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Where were they going without ever knowing the way?
While talking with some friends recently the subject came round to the ongoing hoopla over the Mayan Calendar and the supposed “end of the world” come December of this year. While talking of other...
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Lughnasadh and the Games of Summer
There are those who absolutely live for Summer. They thrive in the long sunny days, shedding as much of their clothing as modesty (or the law) will allow, to bask more fully in the solar radiance that...
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A Matter of Temperament
A Polytheist, a Monotheist and an Atheist walk into a bar…, Okay, there wasn’t a bar involved; it just sounded more amusing that way. Sometimes at work, when time and energy allow, we find ourselves...
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An All Hallows Peeve
Every year, as the leaves begin to turn and cooler breezes finally beat back the heat of summer, we prepare ourselves for the great ritual. With the turning of the calendar from October to November,...
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Story or Storyteller
There are moments in all of our lives that are pivotal in that they change how we see and understand the universe around us. Sometimes these moments are points of great personal tragedy or triumph,...
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A Dream of Horses
There are moments, for each of us I think, when we come to feel utterly alone in the world. It seems an absurd notion when the vast majority of us are so packed in together that we could scarcely...
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Thunder and Lightning — a Poem for Yule
I am the wind that rattles the door in its frame. A white beard lay upon my green cloak like frost on mistletoe. A bell tolls when I pass and ravens follow in my wake. Donder and Blitzen, Thunder and...
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Eternal Flame
These last few days the weather has been on the dreary side, with cool temperatures and a damp to the air which hasn’t the pluck to decide if it wants to be rain or fog. In other words, it’s been...
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Unbroken Bread
The sun was low on the horizon as Diarmuid gazed out across the fields surrounding their newest hiding place. He listened intently to the rasping caw of a crow from somewhere to the north of the small...
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Mary – Quite Contrary
“It’s not that I hate the Virgin Mary, I just don’t think she deserves so much attention…,” I think we’ve all had that moment: you are standing in a public place and you hear a snippet of conversation...
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No Capes!
You walk into a room at a family gathering and you find uncle Elmo telling a joke so racist that you wonder if it’s not too late to have yourself adopted out of the family. Your boss is making sexist...
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…and the rent is due.
I would bring him bundles of rushes from the waters edge. Carry them by hand to the high place, stony Barrule, overlooking the sea. For Midsummer Eve has come and Manannán awaits his payment. Only, I...
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Lugh: A Prelude
Lughnasadh, the Celtic celebration of the first harvest, arrives this week, and I could not be more busy. It’s my own fault, after a fashion. I requested a couple days off from work this week, to...
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Walking with the Green Man
The world is dying. It’s okay. It needs to. Everything dies, and eventually, is born again. In my particular patch of the world the earliest signs have been visible for the last several weeks. The...
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Ravens Laughing
I was only a quarter of the way up the rock face when I stopped to take a rest. Sitting, slightly out of breath, on a rounded shelf of sandstone, I could see my car down below, parked by the roadside....
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Buried by Time and Wave
“The only true constant, is change.” —Heraclitus of Ephesus, 4th century BCE I am paraphrasing a bit there, I think. I know that I have the actual quote, in the original Greek, stashed away somewhere...
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Three Worlds
We reside at the juncture of three worlds. Fooled by our senses, we typically believe ourselves to be living on but a single sphere, that same familiar blue ball we’ve seen in myriad satellite images,...
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Twelve Nights – A Poem for Yule
For twelve nights long we’ve rung the bell. For more years now than men may tell. Before Saint Nick was on the scene. Before the baby Nazarene. We dressed the hearth in green and red. We kept the...
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Let me try again:
We all have rituals. They are the actions, the words and the thoughts that, through repetition, become the markers against which we judge our progress through life. Most of these rituals are just the...
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