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May
So it is Mayday, an appropriate time to begin this project: the month when the faerie hosts ride through the woods and all the dryads, naiads and nymphs, all the elves of standing lakes and groves, the denizens of the ferny hollows where the trysting place is, emerge into the greening shade of the greening forest.
Then the Horned One walks a path that takes him across the fording place of the stream and stops a while to play a little on his pipe as he tastes a scent on the air.
And then there is only one path through the… Read more »
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Heading to Philly
My posting has been a little light recently due to this being the most stressful time of the year at work. Heading to Philly this afternoon for an overnight and coming back late on Thursday.
Very excited about getting to see Sharon Astyk this weekend and also a trip to forage for fiddleheads. But, until then, work calls! Hope you are all having a great week!
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Bluebells and the Nascent Summer
Bluebells after rain – have you ever tasted that experience? In a greening woodland where the floor is a thick carpet of blue is a place to be at this time of year. It’s like you’ve stumbled across some archetype of the nascent summer emerging from Spring. Sometihing which defines a particular moment in the year in all its enchanting sensuousness. And then rain … clearing to sunshine. At that moment while the wood is still wet, then is the time to step inside and be touched by something that you never quite register as a reproducable experience, that you…
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Sacred Eclology (an excerpt )
I am often critical of Paganism, for distancing itself from ecology. There is more talk about magic and occult ritual then there are deep theological and philosophical discussions about ecology. It would apear, there is a division between Modern Paganism in America and Europe. The fallowing excerpt is writin from a U.K. perspective. Anymore even the word paganism seems to drift further from being earth-centered or nature-based in practice, where some self-identified pagans, reject that aspect inplace for a humanistic polytheism, ethnic reconstructionism, or occult and new age practices. So, when I came acrost the fallowing article, I was elated… Read more »
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Firsts
It has been a good week for firsts. I had my first shooting lesson and target practice on Monday night. I shot a .22 and a 9 mm pistol. By the end of the night my accuracy had improved but still needs work.
In true Maine style we went from cold and wet to full on summer weather, currently 80 degrees here. Last night I had the first fire of the year. I love fire so much, I am a fire sign after all!, and it was great to spend the latter part of the night staring into it and… Read more »
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Food+Farm at SPACE
Haven’t been to SPACE for a while now but it looks like it’s time to go back for this series of events Co-presented by SPACE and the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association
There is plenty of info on the SPACE web site and also an article in the Portland Press Herald.
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April to May
Gwasgod praff, gwisgad priffyrdd,
Gwisgai bob lle â’i we wyrdd.
Pan ddêl yn ôl rhyfel rhew,
Pill doldir, pall adeildew –
Digrif fydd, mau grefydd grill,
Llwybr obry lle bu’r Ebrill –
Y daw ar uchaf blaen dâr
Caniadau cywion adar,
A chog ar fan pob rhandir,
A chethlydd a hoywddydd hir,
The high roads arrayed in a dense screen
He would dress them all in a web of green;
Here it comes after the frost’s threnody
A tent of leaves enclosing a new melody
Among the green leaves, birdsong is my creed
All the paths of April to May now lead
Birds fill the oaks with joyful song
And the cuckoo calls all the day long
Dafydd… Read more »
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How Locally Will We Be Eating in the Years Ahead?
How locally will we be eating in years ahead?
Published: Saturday, April 18, 2009
GREENFIELD — The breakfast of crab scallion pancakes and pork buns may have seemed exotic for the Franklin County Chamber of Commerce, but no more so than talk of which species of violets are tastiest.
Turners Falls resident Dave Jacke — who wrote two books on ”edible forest gardens” and teaches nationwide about ”fostering a different kind of agriculture” using perennials that have been long ignored as a food source — was one of four speakers on just how locally we’ll need to be eating…
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Local Tots Learn about PermaCulture
Turners tots to eat (very) local as preschool plants its own garden
TUNERS FALLS — Preschool children in ”The Patch” neighborhood will soon be getting fresh vegetables from a garden just a few feet away from their playground.
The G Street Preschool, with the help of the several area gardening experts and local businesses, is building a garden.
Besides learning to care for the garden and getting fresh vegetables, which encourages good nutrition and healthy eating habits, children will also learn about scientific methods like the process of designing and building a garden, watching plants grow and seeing how…
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A Change in the Weather
Walkway over Tregaron Bog
Sometimes changes in the weather are spooky. All over the weekend and into Monday we had sunshine and blue skies. Tuesday looked set to be the same, though with a bit more cloud. We went out to Tregaron where there is a bog that sits in a bowl of the mountains, a rare and a special landscape. Skirting the willow carr and following the line of the river, we kept to the edge of the bog, but always it was there, brooding. In one place there was a grove of dead trees, their bark mossed and lichened… Read more »
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