(Content warning: death, grief) One of my favorite quotes I’ve heard Reverend Carl give is from educator and activist Parker Palmer: “There are two ways for the heart to break: apart into many shards like a fragment grenade, or open into greater capacity so we can hold life’s inevitable tensions creatively, not destructively.” My father,…
Tag: solstice
One perspective common to most of the belief systems that fall under the umbrella term of Paganism is a desire to connect more fully with the natural world. There’s a recognition among most Pagans that Western culture, as a whole, has slipped too far from the cycle of the seasons and the interconnected web of…
Learning about the history of a word tells us a lot about that word’s meanings over the years. The word “bear” comes from a proto Germanic word meaning “brown thing.” The word “wreath” comes from the word “ridan,” meaning “to twist.” The word “Yule,” the old name for the Winter Solstice, comes from the old…
I recently accepted an invitation to become part of the writing rotation for the The Frederick News-Post ‘s ‘Words of Faith’ section – a column written by local leaders of various spiritual paths in the Frederick area. This is my first contribution to the column. Bright summer is upon us, and the change of seasons…