Tag: Winter Solstice

• Advent: Holding Fast to a Good Dream for the World

  Today dawned chilly and bleak, with a skiff of snow on the garden walkways. Now the clouds are thinning and there is the promise of sun late in the day. The calendar page has turned and we find ourselves firmly in December. The birds and squirrels have made themselves at home at the feeder, and…

  Michael Watson PhD

  December 4, 2016

  native american, spirituality

  Advent, Andrew Jackson, Dreamtime, Native American, Trail of Tears, Winter Solstice

• Paris In Winter

  

  Yesterday, while at the university library, I chanced upon a lovely book of prose and watercolors with the beguiling title, Paris In Winter. In its pages, the author, David Coggins, takes the reader through several winter vacations in the great city. Along the way we discover that David and his wife, Wendy, have been traveling…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 25, 2016

  Arts, Stories, Travel

  Arts, David Coggins, Paris in Winter, stories, Winter Solstice

• What Coyote Might Teach Us

  Yesterday we took down most of our Christmas decorations, including the small Nativity set which consists mostly of an array of animals, both wild and domestic, that surround a manger and child. The idea behind the tableau is the ancient circumpolar Indigenous knowing that the animals welcome us at birth, and support us throughout our…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 5, 2015

  Climate Change, First Nations, Stories, Teaching

  coyote, Native American, Shamanism, Winter Solstice

• Christmas

  Christmas Day. I’ve been in bed with a virus for the past couple of days, so I probably should not have been surprised when I awoke this morning at 3:30. (My nose looks a lot like Rudolph’s.) Eventually I got out of bed and wandered through the dark house to the sun room, where I…

  Michael Watson PhD

  December 25, 2014

  Healing, Shamanism

  ceremony, Chanukkah, Christmas, Winter Solstice