Well, dear readers and friends, the collapse is well underway. It is hard to even recognize this world we live in from before the pandemic. I look at the headlines today, and many of them sound like the science fiction …
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Herbal Releasing Ritual for Samhain
Samhain is marked on my landscape by a hard frost–usually occurring in the last two weeks of October. As I wrote about last week, we had our first freeze just this past week and it is the most profound shift …
A Druid’s Guide to Dealing with Climate Change: Addressing Deep Emotions and Grief
Fear. Anxiety. Grief. Helplessness. Despair. Feeling overwhelmed. Hopelessness. Powerlessness. Anger. Numbness. Displacement. Disconnection. Sadness. These feelings are some of the common ones that people experience today with the pressing and growing concerns about climate change, the age of the Anthropocene, …
The Tears of the Earth: A Hike on Sólheimajökull Glacier
It was our final day in Iceland before returning back to the US. We so many great experiences visiting this country of beautiful extremes, but more than anything, what we wanted to see on our last day was a glacier. …
The Silence of the Hive
What you quickly learn as a beekeeper is that the sound of the hive matters. When you first get into a hive, if the hive is in good health and has all of its needs met, the hive is generally …