So this morning, in honor of Washington's actual birth date, I put on my playlist of Revolutionary War period music, starting with the "President's March", which celebrates Washington and the heroes of the Revolution. It is hard to realize how revered Washington was in this country's early days. And the amazing thing is, he seems to have deserved ( Read more... )

I'm home from Pantheacon, one of the more remarkable phenomena of the Pagan Revival--2300 people from every possible pagan or alternative religious tradition in a hotel. Kabbalism, Strega, Heathenry, Umbanda, Wicca, even the occasional mystical Christian. Pantheacon started as a local (Northern California) celebration, but these days people come ( Read more... )

Hi, folks, Lorrie here (as Diana's webmaster) with some important news:


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This past month, one of the runes we've been studying in the Rune Class is Wunjo--Joy. In one sense, it’s pretty simple. In another it’s an abstraction that’s almost impossible to define. The best image I could come up with to represent it on the altar was Snoopy doing the happy dance. In the class discussion, I tried to analyze my own feelings on ( Read more... )

The equinox is past, the fog has come back in, it must really be fall, and time to make plans ( Read more... )

So on a rare evening last week when I didn't have a meeting, I was sitting at the computer trying to get some work done when my grandson Michael asked if I wanted to participate in a one-hour lights out event. He's in an environmental emphasis program at Berkeley High, and apparently this had something to do with energy dependence. Well, I could ( Read more... )

Just wanted to let any of my LJ friends who are in my area that we're starting another round of the Rune Class this Wednesday at Greyhaven at 7:30 p.m ( Read more... )

Finally got to see /Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows I/ last Friday. I've read the book, and I was interested to see that the more relaxed pacing resulting from splitting the novel allowed more time for the actors to show their response to events. But I noticed something else as well ( Read more... )

…does not actually mean the day on which we box up all the Christmas left-overs and try to put them away, or spend the day lying about recovering from the excesses of the Jul feast.. Nor is it a day for the sport of boxing, although in some places boxing matches, among other competitions, are held. Nor, although in the British Commonwealth it is a ( Read more... )

“The Boar’s Head in hand bear I ( Read more... )