Seasonal Celebration Archives - Page 4 of 6

If Winter means death, then Autumn is the dying. In our culture, death is often synonymous with dread. Like late blight to

There is a specific slant to the late afternoon sun that floods my living room with a cast-iron butter of deeply heated light. It’s always

On the other side of the strawberry moon, after the late spring blossoms of Beltane and the thick pulses of Hawthorn blooms arises

I walked through the warm woods barefoot to the cleft of hill overlooking the stream. Following the old worn way through the trees,

Today the world is lost to its own thought. This morning found the last russets of maple leaves scattered beneath the trees and tonight

It is late October, and the peak of the Equinox has come and gone. The fields are golden with constellations of butter-colored squash and

This past weekend I let myself be free. At around 2:00 o’clock in the afternoon on Friday I pushed all my lingering work in a drawer,

This year’s spring has been a revelation, sweet and slow. The mountains here held winter much longer than usual—we’ve even seen April

February is the only month in our calendar year when we are encouraged to not only celebrate, but explore love. It is a time of both