What it Means to Be Human – Jan. 20, 2023
“I think that if we can truly grasp and believe in how fleeting this life is, how delicate, how subject to powers beyond our control, that we can begin to set our minds to a better way of living within it that isn’t tormenting itself with trying to grasp onto things that cannot be grasped… […]
Life Is Cyclical – Jan. 19, 2023
“I think what it means to be human is to live a life that’s deeply cyclical. There isn’t one path, a straight path, and certainly not an uphill path that works its way to a summit where the angels sing… My understanding now, as I get older, of being human, is that my life is […]
Time Passing – Jan. 17, 2023
“[Ritual] gives you a sense of time passing, which is really helpful when you’re struggling, because time can begin to drag, and you can get mired in hopelessness. You get a kind of marker of your progress, so the next time that something comes up in the calendar, you can feel how far away you […]
Rituals Give Hope – Jan. 16, 2023
“What Philip Carr-Gomm [the former Chief Druid of the U.K.] told me was that, in the pagan year, there is a ceremony or a ritual or something being marked every six weeks across the year. That gives hope for anybody who is currently suffering, because you are never far away from the next moment when […]
