One of my favourite parts of spring is our garden.  When we lived in the country, we had a large yard filled with gardens that had been developed by my parents for over twenty years.  We moved to town a few years […]

I snapped the above photo a few weeks ago, pausing briefly on the side of a walking trail.  Back then, the days were getting really warm for the first time this year (I recall setting out in the morning wearing […]

“There are no truths, only stories.”     — Thomas King

My last two posts here (“Recovering What Has Been Lost” and “The Power and Transformation of Opening to Love”) constitute what I think of as “my story” – […]

Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it.

– Katherine Anne Porter

This month has been a busy one: spring has sprung in earnest, and we have been hard at work preparing […]

“The one who came farthest to my lodge, through deepest snows and most dismal tempests, was a poet. A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for […]

“Every day and every night
That I say the genealogy of Bride,
I shall not be killed, I shall not be harried,
I shall not be put in cell, I shall not be wounded, …
No fire, no sun, no moon shall burn me,
No lake, […]

A dear friend recently asked me what it was that I had let go of in the past that I still needed.  What was it I had left behind, forgotten, only to move on into the future, with something missing that I still […]

I began this series of posts because I thought it would be a great way to get back into the routine of blogging.  I was just coming off a period of writer’s block with regards to blogging, and having a series of […]

It is in the sound of the evening birdsong, in the rustle of immense trees swaying in the wind, in the ephemeral colours of the sunset, in the dark depths of the sea, in the airy heights of the mountains, in the […]

Lately we’ve been going for walks in the evenings, right after supper.  Walking in the evening provides the perfect ending to the day: the physical activity, while it is not too strenuous, refreshes and clears the […]

Is it so small a thing

To have enjoy’d the sun,

To have lived light in the spring,

To have loved, to have thought, to have done?

– Matthew Arnold

John writes about the faith of spring, and realizes […]

As much as I would like to simply hoist on my backpack and wander off through the hills with a trusty staff in my hand, poetry on my lips, and fire in my head, this simply isn’t that practical.  For one thing, I […]

You know how it goes, you start out with all these good intentions, you start developing new habits, writing in your journal everyday, exercising and meditating, but then one day you just don’t feel like it. […]

The state of liminality is the state of being in-between, of being neither this nor that but the transition, and perhaps the connection, between two (often seemingly opposite) states.  Twilight is a liminal time […]

Slowly, slowly, spring is arriving.  It never seems to arrive all at once, and, despite what the calendars often say, there is no real “first day” of spring.  Rather, this time of year is in a gradual […]

So often I have set goals for myself – lofty visions of where I wanted to be at a certain time of my life, certain tasks to accomplish, etc.  Sometimes, I have achieved these goals.  Many other times, I realized […]

What advice can one person lend another, as we all walk on our own unique paths?  And especially, what advice can I, as inexperienced as I am, offer to anyone else?  For now, perhaps only this, the few small […]

Modern Druidry is a strange beast.  A religion for some but not all, it may perhaps be better described as a spirituality, philosophy, or attitude, a certain quirky way of looking at the world.  It embraces […]

One must live in the middle of contradiction because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.  There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.  You continue to live […]

Solitude is essential to me.  I need to have time alone, away from other people, away from the computer and the television and the radio and even away from my beloved books.  These times of solitude, silence, and […]