“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. However, knowing this, one must attend to medical practice not primarily to plausible theories, but to experience combined with reason. For a theory is a composite memory of things apprehended with sense perception.” — Hippocrates, Rhetoric and Kairos: Essays in History, Theory, and Praxis ... continue reading...
Autumn Equinox (Southern Hemisphere)
This is what I know, Mysterious Ones.This is what you are telling meAnd this is what I will tell you:The Earth prepares for a great change,Light and Dark were equal this week, but that will not last.The Earth makes its way around the SunAnd takes us with it into the year's dark half.We travel with it,Not in calm resignation,But with wild anticipation of what dreams may be dreamtIn the night of the world. May they be good dreams. A Book of Pagan PrayerCeisiwr Serith Equinox Blessings ... continue reading...
A Little Inspiration
Autism is a dynamic disability, one of three that I have (endometriosis, arthritis). A dynamic disability is one with symptom severity that changes– sometimes with triggers and sometimes without. As a result, I really struggle to relate to my body as anything other than a prison. Michaela Macha’s “Prayer to Frey, God of the Body”, […] A Little Inspiration I'm really interested in practices that help us embrace our embodiment in a world that is oriented towards people who are able-bodied, and ... continue reading...
Equinox blessings
The Seasonal Moment of Equinox @ EarthGaia (as our Planet may be named[i]), will occur March 20th at 21:24 UTC (that’s “Universal Time” as it is named – measured at Greenwich England). Equinox is a moment of balance of dark and light for the Planet, when the dark and the light in the South and in the North of our Planet are of equal length – for a moment. From this moment on, the Southern Hemisphere will tip into increasing dominance of dark after the dominance of light for six months ... continue reading...
Blackberries & Perscribed Burning (an allegory for cancer & chemo)
Blackberries & prescribed burning This is written for G, who starts chemo tomorrow. I'd also like to dedicate it to all who deal with fire: emergency services operators, and both professional and volunteer fire-fighters. Let's talk about how important language and allegory were to me in navigating my experience of cancer, treatment, and convalescence. Background Communication My goal was to communicate publicly about this in a way ... continue reading...
We are the Ancestors
"I have read somewhere of an old Chinese curse: 'May you be born in an interesting time!' This is a VERY interesting time: there are no models for ANYTHING that is going on. It is a period of free fall into the future, and each has to make his or her own way. The old models are not working; the new have not yet appeared. In fact, it is we who are even now shaping the new in the shaping of our interesting lives. And that is the whole sense (in mythological terms) of the present challenge: we are ... continue reading...
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