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Blessed Beltane to you. Wake at dawn and wash your face in the dew. Light the Beltane fires and make a deep wish when you jump them. Can ...

Here's Joanna Macy saying better than I did what I was trying to say yesterday about Beltane's promise. "That's where we co...

One of my favorite poems for high summer is Mary Oliver's Little Summer Poem Touching the Subject of Faith, where she says: Every summer...

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This Friday is Arbor Day , a day set aside in the U.S. and many other places to plant, care for, and honor trees. It comes just after Earth...

May it be so for you.

My little cottage is surrounded by some (three-to-four-hundred-year) old oaks. They help me to ground; every day I run my roots down into t...

Last Spring BY GOTTFRIED BENN TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL HOFMANN Fill yourself up with the forsythias and when the lilacs flower, stir them in to...

BTW, if you haven't read Dancing in the Streets, A History of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich , you really need to add it to your ...

I have friends who are world travelers; there's so much that's wonderful about ranging all over this perfect planet and experiencing...

Mark Bittman : We’re not just buying, we’re growing | Urban agriculture is on the rise. If you’re smirking, let me remind you that in 1943,...

Four horses passed us, their riders cloaked in maroon blankets, their faces painted black. At the top of the hill of Uisneach in County West...

Here's a nicely-done article about Ontario Pagan groups and how they practice and perceive Beltane. It avoids the usual, "And the...

You know that feeling you get after dancing around a great bonfire with drums melting your bones and the stars burning in the shining black ...

On May Morning by John Milton Now the bright morning Star, Day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The Flowery...

The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit; for like as herbs and trees bring forth fr...