This evening begins the ancient Celtic festival of Imbolc, February 1. According to tradition, it is the time that snakes emerge from their holes to test the air, and first plowings can begin. That may be true in Britain and Ireland, but here in New England we still...
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Poem for Trump America is better than this We do not want to turn away refugees from war torn lands America is better than this We do not turn our back on the Earth and her creatures America is better than this We affirm that all human beings...
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In Celtic tradition it isn’t summer until the hawthorns bloom. Keeping to schedule, the local hawthorns bloomed mid-May. We had a terrible ice storm a few years ago and my Irish hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) raised from seed I brought back from Uisneach in county Meath, finally recovered enough...
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