By the time most of you read this, preparations for Winter Solstice will be underway. I already have a little tree decorated and situated in a place of honor. I think of it as a version of the ancient “World Tree”, the Indo-European axis mundi and center of...
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A severe cold snap has blanketed the country and here on the mountain we have been experiencing record cold. At night the house creaks and pops with mysterious sounds that must be cracks forming in wooden roof beams. Extra corn, old bread and seeds have been put out...
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At the last Full Moon there was a tribe of coyotes howling outside my kitchen door. I had never quite heard them like that – it was a combination of wolf howls and the gravelly yips one usually hears. They were louder than I had ever heard before...
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