Even in my most cynical and misanthropic years, I could never bring myself to hate them Christmas lights. Just look at them!I acknowledge well that there are reasons, even if I don’t agree with them, to take shots at many of the other aspects of our varied traditions, but in all seriousness, why would decoratingContinue reading “Get in the Glow”
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Being Anti-Anti-Christmas
I keep catching myself turning into an old man. To be more specific, I keep catching myself doing and (most often) thinking things that a short time ago I would have attributed only to the mindset of a geezer. It’s worse than just being conscious of it, too. Each time I catch myself, I discoverContinue reading “Being Anti-Anti-Christmas”
Careening Toward a Solstice
This is the season of the forest fairies and the drunken wood-elves, of light and gold and burning life. I cannot overstate how much I love the month of June. These past couple of months seem to have blasted by, an edgy jumble of harsh chaos accompanied by an undercurrent of confidence that all isContinue reading “Careening Toward a Solstice”
Making Sense of 2016 (Now that it’s Finally Over
Considering the fact that we may well be fast approaching the end of civilization, if not the world, we deserve a whole hell of a lot more celebration and mirth-making than we’re getting. Collectively, we grasp for this in large part without any conscious awareness of the fact. There’s this kind of foggy block justContinue reading “Making Sense of 2016 (Now that it’s Finally Over”
Like diamond sunlight at noon: A Meditation for Today
I knew and I didn’t know My source, my backstory, my origins – I mean everything, the real answers, The Final Objective Truth of It All. But it’s never final here, In this Place Through the eyes, But it’s final and true Some Place. I catch it in glimmers, like diamond sunlight at noon, ThroughContinue reading “Like diamond sunlight at noon: A Meditation for Today”
2016 is batshit, good luck
When an associate of mine – we can call him Brother Theodore – completed a shamanic journey earlier this spring, I barely waited a token polite interval to give his brain the chance to reconstruct itself before reaching out to talk to him about it. There wasn’t anything unreasonable about this, really. The whole pointContinue reading “2016 is batshit, good luck”
Happy Winter Solstice – Love, Your Wizard
New year’s day might be a week and a half away, but the blessed sun cares nothing for our petty calendars. To the sun, the new year just started – just now. Happy 2016, everybody. Happy solstice. May your year to come be filled with blessings, May what curses come bring with them learning, May your joyContinue reading “Happy Winter Solstice – Love, Your Wizard”
A wizard’s summer vacation (Happy solstice!)
The end of the year, the beginning of winter, the year’s darkest days, the period we commonly think of as Christmastime – this is undeniably a magical time. As the cold and darkness surround us, we are warmed by our spirits and our companionship; facing the difficult days ahead, we are yet filled with mirth andContinue reading “A wizard’s summer vacation (Happy solstice!)”
Midsummer’s midpoint: looking back, looking ahead
Once again, another big solstice holiday winds down. The whole thing is very predictable – and it should be. This is, after all, a cyclical game we’re playing. The holiday approaches, I get anxious because I feel unprepared, I complain because it feels disruptive, I attempt to embrace the disruption as a necessary function of theContinue reading “Midsummer’s midpoint: looking back, looking ahead”
Solstice Sermon: Don’t show up early to be dead
The summer solstice should be a time to cast away stones – and why that’s a good thing. The seeds that were silent all burst into bloom and decay, The night comes so quiet, it’s close on the heels of the day. -Robert Hunter, “Eyes of the World” The Tao Te Ching reminds us ofContinue reading “Solstice Sermon: Don’t show up early to be dead”
Christopher J. DiLoreto 