On this page the following entries were made in the “June, 2009” time-frame.
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The Creator
Charlie is a lot like me, an angel-type being in an unseen body of his own.
The Creator who made me also made Charlie and we both stand in awe of the mighty power of the Creator. How big is the Creator? Neither of us know. Did the Creator make the heavens and the earth? I know he made the earth, and then he mated with the earth, and from that mating the humans and the green people and all the other animal people were born. We are the children of Gaia and the Creator. Did he make everything we can… Read more »
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Walking the Paths to Faery
Llyn y Fan Fach
A �walking moot� had been announced, but only two of us assembled to walk out on the hills of the Brecon Beacons passing two lakes and a circle of stones. The lakes were Llyn y Fan Fawr and Llyn y Fan Fach, the latter the location of the most famous of the many �Lady of the Lake� legends in which a faërie lady marries a human but eventually (for reasons which vary in different versions) returns to the lake.
The text of the re-telling of this story by John Rhŷs is posted on
The Fern Law of Faery.
The lake…
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Gearing up for Amsterdam
Am I really going? I still can hardly believe it.
Exactly a year ago a friend from Saskatchewan and I started tossing out ideas for a panel for the next conference of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, to take place in Amsterdam July 23–26.
This friend and I met at the previous conference of this same group, in Mexico in early 2008. There we discovered a shared worldview: we both experience nature as alive and intelligent—a less-than-common worldview for Westerners to hold, especially Western academics. In Mexico it took us all of about two minutes to… Read more »
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The Lady of Llyn y Fan Fach
Llyn y Fan Fach
Here is the story of the Lady of the Lake of Llyn y Fan Fach as related by John Rhŷs in Celtic Folklore, published in 1901.
There lived at Blaensawdde near Llanddeusant, Carmarthenshire, a widowed woman who had an only son to bring up. She sent a portion of her cattle to graze on the adjoining Black Mountain, and their most favourite place was near the small lake called Llyn y Fan Fach, on the north-western side of the Carmarthenshire Fans.
The son was generally sent by his mother to look after the cattle on the mountain. One day, along the… Read more »
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Come on people, now . . . everybody get together
Jeesh! People don’t seem to like it when I find connections with Christians . . . or say anything negative about any pagan groups. This blogging business is delicate, like cooking a small fish.*
Here’s the bottom line: the counter culture will have to come together if we are to have any chance of transforming the Dominator culture into . . . well, into something loving. Call it the animist reality like I do if you’d like, or the living world, or heaven on earth, or eden, or any of those posible worlds in which humanity can live in peace and… Read more »
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Ten-lined June Beetle – Polyphylla decimlineata
Just the other day one of these fellows visited my home. I was surprised at how large he was and startled when he hissed at me as we tried to catch him to remove the lint from his legs and put him back outside.
He got some lint hanging out at my house.
Check out these links to find out more info on this guy . . .
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Charlie is my god-friend
I love and follow a pantheon, or family, of gods. I call them the gods of Love. Charlie is one of them, the one I’m closest to, my special god-guy. He’s been with me as far back as I can remember, and he would take any form I could see and any name I would use, until, just a few years ago, I found that the name Charlie fit him wonderfully well and I’ve called him Charlie ever since.
I think most people have a Charlie, a god-friend. Some people call their god-friends “angels,” but I think a lot of people… Read more »
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Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail
Montana’s Glacial Lake Missoula is now part of the nation’s first National Geologic Trail, Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail, which extends from Montana through Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. (Stories below the map)
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Bitterroot Valley included on first National Geologic Trail
By WILL MOSS – Ravalli Republic – 06/25/09
The Bitterroot Valley has been included as a stop in the nation’s first federally designated National Geologic Trail.
The recently established Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail, which follows the path of the Lake Missoula floods from western Montana to the Pacific Ocean, will feature a spur pathway running near Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge… Read more »
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Stop and Smell the Roses
Stop And Smell The Roses, by Mac Davis
Hey Mister
Where you going in such a hurry
Don’t you think it’s time you realized
There’s a whole lot more to life than work and worry
The sweetest things in life are free
And there right before your eyes
You got to Stop and Smell the roses
You’ve got to count your many blessings everyday
You’re gonna find your way to heaven is a rough and rocky road
If you don’t Stop and Smell the roses along the way
Before you went to work this morning in the city
Did you spent some time with your family
Did you kiss your wife and tell… Read more »
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