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Continue reading →: Craftiness & Green Thumbs
The past couple of weeks have ended up being somewhat all-consuming, leaving little time for blogging. Still, things are going great in the garden, and I’ve hit a nice rhythm for my creative side as well. Soon, there will be community compost bins, as the nocturnal skunk-and-coyote picnics have been…
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Continue reading →: Bee Rosary
While not as impressive as my festival drum, I’m extremely pleased with this little rosary for the Bee Tribe. It’s nothing more than glass and silk, but it’s simplicity makes it very pleasant to use. It also has a good weight to it. I love the hexagonal-faceted beads, which bear…
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Continue reading →: Festival Drum
So, following on the heels of my Holy Days post, the major project that I’ve been putting together as a sort of finale for my work with the Boar Clan has been a map of sorts. It’s a temporal map, recording all the various ways I keep track of time…
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Continue reading →: Holy Daze, er, Days
As far as the Holy Days are concerned, I find them falling into three categories: seasonal celebrations, lunar celebrations, and dates chosen for some other significance. Like most folks of a Paganish persuasion, I follow the Gardner/Nichols eight-fold calendrical creation for the major seasonal festivals. I like the structure it…
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Continue reading →: Planting and Astrology
I spent the weekend helping finish up the cultivating, weeding, and planting of the field beds in the community garden. One sunburn and 66 tomato plants later, I’m really proud of everything we managed to accomplish. Even though I didn’t plant much more than a handful of cucumbers and melons…







