Hecate

Sobeit has up a great post today about the need to consult our landbase when we make important decisions. In all [E]arth traditions there i...

Just the first few minutes of so much empty space allows my breath to sink deeper into my belly, my spirit to expand. My INTJ self looks a...

Blogger is having, as we used to say, "issues," so if posting is a bit light for the next few days, it's not only because G/So...

Witches don't proselytize and I am, if you wake me up at 2:00 am and ask me what I am, a Witch. And I don't proselytize. I have a Pi...

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...

Richard Louv notes: For decades, our culture has struggled with two addictions: to oil and to despair. But what if our lives were as immers...

Being a grandma and a Witch isn't exactly a well-covered topic, not in today's world and not w/r/t young children. That's all I...

I completely lifted this from Margaret Roach 's A Way to Garden . I've done all of these and more. You? Why Did My Plant Die? You ...

As a part of my daily practice, I ground and make contact with the cold, red, Virginia clay upon which my little cottage is built. I twine ...

Last night, looking to delay for a moment the inevitable pre-bedtime bath, G/Son wandered into my ritual room and picked up the fairy door o...

Since he started Montessori school this Fall, G/Son has been making really big strides in learning to read and in learning about math. (A f...

The newsletter from G/Son's Montessori school (sent via paperless e-mail, the better to be shared w/ loving Nonnas!) has a wonderful art...

It may be a little late for this , but I'm willing to try anything. On Inauguration Day, 2009, G/Son and Nonna watched Preznident Obama ...

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This is, I think, such a hopeful and optimistic speech. A wonderful antidote. It's worth listening all the way through.

The other week, when we were at his favorite nature center, G/Son & I saw a display about this book . Who knew that an investigation int...

One of G/Son's first activities when he gets to Nonna's house is to check out the fairy door on the old maple tree in the back yard....

The anniversary of my mother's death occurred a few weeks ago, and I think G/Son had heard his 'rents mention it. He and Son were o...