“Everybody loves Nature until Nature rolls up on your ass!” –Tony Baker Something to Celebrate? As a city dweller, I ached for a connection to our Mother. Those 4’x8′ beds of staked tomatoes in the back 40 ( 40 feet, not 40 acres!)? Mother! Nature! My heirloom tea roses with the floofy French handles? An…

Although SpringHouse captured my heart and imagination immediately–leashed me to it, actually, my corporal self scrambling against its pull sometimes like a puppy on a choke chain– its effect on my life short term has sometimes felt like one of  Sam Peckinpah’s balletic death scenes–a hypnotic series of staccato body blows. Okay, that sounds melodramatic.…

Paganism–broad-tent Paganism in all its variations–is a materialistic religion. I do not mean this in the sense of superficiality’ I’m not suggesting that Pagans value feeelthy excess. Rather, on the whole, we worship What Is-– the Great Mother (Earth, Gaia, and all her other many-faceted faces), and the Great Father, too–manifesting as Sky Spirit, Greek…