Category: Shamanism
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Summer Questions
We are now into July and the volume of birdsong has decreased markedly. The cardinals continue to sing throughout the day as they defend their territories and the robins chime in occasionally, but the overall soundscape is much quieter. The days are long and hot, abet largely without the suffocating humidity that has characterized recent…
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Dreaming Into a New Home
Well June has begun much like May ended: wet and cool. We had a thundershower overnight and more rain is forecast for this afternoon. The mosquitoes have joined the flowering plants in an orgy of proliferation, so that a trip outdoors to view the beauty, or to work in the garden, has a very real…
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Passover
We took the opportunity on this warm late April day to have our first real walk along the lakefront. The lake is deep and wide and holds heat in the autumn and chill in the spring; today it proved true to form. Still the strong April sun kept us warm.
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Intersectionality, Shamanism, and Disability
This morning is a wet, gray, damp fleece of a morning. I awoke, in the middle of the night, to the sound of sleet and freezing rain striking the skylight; I could hear the intermittent “pings” even without my hearing aids. Now the world wears an icy coating, although the temperature has risen and as…
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