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In Limbo

I have a very close friend, an honorary brother, who has been in ICU for 109 days as of today. For the last 2 1/2 months he has been on a ventilator. I am his health care power of attorney.  This ordeal is torture but as long as he wants to try to survive this I will support him.

Image by Alexander Gresbek from Pixabay

To use a cliché, I’m on an emotional roller coaster.   He takes a turn for the worse, and I’m crushed, in tears all the time, can’t sleep, don’t want to eat or do anything other t...

Fates and Graces Mythologium: A conference for mythologists and the myth-curious

Do people look at you strangely when you mention the trickster? Does your family ignore your goddess sightings? Do they roll their eyes at your favorite phrases: imaginal realm, liminal space, follow your bliss?

Then join the Fates and Graces Mythologium! The Mythologium is a two-and-a-half day conference and retreat for mythologists and friends of myth. Think Plato’s symposium meets mythological studies. A gymnasium for the mythic mind. At the Mythologium, scholars of mythology present their w...

Rainbow Gathering(s) 2021

This year is shaping up to be multiple smaller gatherings and/or camp outs over the July 4th prayer for world peace. Some of these gatherings will have an emphasis on COVID-19 safety protocols, others perhaps not so much. Many people may chose not to gather. The idea is not to have one large gathering, but to spread points of light around the land. The pandemic is still on-going and many of us take this very seriously.

For more information, visit my gathering blog.

Tackling the Great Divide in American Culture from a Mythological Perspective

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Silver Award Winner in Kops-Fethering Book Awards

[image error]Falling From The Moon received the Silver Award in the Kops-Fetherling International Book Award for books published in 2020.

Love appears in the most unlikely places

Pandemic as meditation

I think of the pandemic as one long meditation. I am an irregular practitioner myself but the pandemic has forced myself and my own thoughts upon me. It has forced me to sit or walk quietly with my life as I have lived it in contrast to the life I had hoped to live,

The pandemic has forced me to confront the fact that I will never achieve the glories I had imagined for myself.  While I am saddened by my failures and inclined to want to give up from time-to-time, I have the good fortune of being...

Navigating the health care industry during a pandemic

In December 2019, I had an eight-hour bought of vomiting and I’m still not well.  I spent a week feel not great and very picky about what I ate (mostly ice cream thank to a neighbor who was going to the store for me). I rested, drank plenty of fluids and worked my way back up to soup and salads.  I thought I was on the road to recovery.   But my energy just wasn’t coming back.

In January 2020, I was at a full moon celebration with a doctor friend and talked to him about winter bugs going around....

GoodReads Giveaway Packaging in Progress

From March 1-30, Falling From The Moon was part of a giveaway on GoodReads.  Fifty lucky readers will have a book shipping out to them in the next few days. I’m labeling, signing books, and stuffing mailing envelopes.  Wow what a journey but so exciting to see so many copies of my novel getting out into the world.

Next up, stuffing the envelopes!

I’m jealous of young people

For the last 40 years, I’ve believed that the life I’ve been able to lead was only possible because of the work done by those who went before me. I understand my responsibility in life is to enhance that legacy and build another link in the chain that binds us all. Only history will know if I succeeded and only those that are younger than me can judge my successes and failures.

Image by Егор Камелев from Pixabay

When I was young and engaged with people older than myself, many of them had gotten ...