Category: Shamanism
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Interbeing: A Late Summer Walk
Today marks something close to the mid-way point between the solstice and equinox. It’s about six weeks to the official start of autumn. The sun still rises early, but we’ve noticed darkness now falls earlier each evening; by 8:30 in the evening the stars are out. Looking up last night, we noted the moon seemed…
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Ceremony
As I sit down to write, a thunderstorm hangs on the horizon. Slowly the mountains fade from view, and the rain and the lake become indivisible. Its tea time, and the pot is on the stove. Now the rain, not yet heavy has overtaken the house. Now, the rain has quickened, soon to be torrential.…
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Ancestors, Spirits, and The Land
I like to sit with the changing seasons. Today, a lovely summer day, cool and bright, the trees are showing just a hint of the reds and other colors to come. Still, the vista is dominated by a wide range of green. We are grateful for so much: one another, rain, friends, the presence of…
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The Presence of the Spirits
It’s Sunday. As I write a thunderstorm is approaching. It looks like the heart of the storm will pass to the south. We are just past Mid-summer here in Vermont. The summer has been cool, with brief spells of heat. If we were less connected to the world we would assume normalcy. Yet we are…
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