How we handle the technological changes of our era, and our ability to keep up with them, defines whether innovation symbolizes the advancement or detriment of society.

In order for democracy to work, we have to fight the impulse to surrender our power. We have to take responsibility for our own lives, individually and collectively. That means making a practice of taking back power from those who we have surrendered it to—even when believe they are using it benevolently.

The snake you mistake
For evil’s the same one
Who led us from Egypt
And freed us from Eden

The current Jack-in-the-Green is a modern iteration, but belongs to an older tradition of “green beings” that populate English folk custom. Jack-in-the-Green himself emerged as a tradition in the eighteenth century, becoming closely associated with chimney sweeps and their May Day celebrations.

How a violent 1600-year old political and religious struggle over the fate of the dead is finally beginning to end.

What is it about a wooded country lane on a warm, still morning? Perhaps it calls to that part of us that craves something new and familiar all at once. Fool vibes.

Distinguishing opinion from misinformation requires critical analysis from everyone, not just legal professionals or employees of tech companies.

The British ruling class is old, and it is clever. No one else in the world does the pomp and ceremony like us.

expand our experience with this transient light

in our eyes, undisturbed in an infinite way

feeling safe in the dark,

knowing the intimacy of each night:

black feather to the cheek.

The silver coin in my cup

is the Moon cast small.

The slight blade in my hand

is learning to plough the clay,

sowing prayer and memory.

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As I write this, Beltane is so very close. You can feel it in the land, a surge of energy bubbling up through the earth and bursting forth with tremendous beauty, a mirage of sound, colour and scent. Spring is well under way now and where I live, the land is blooming.

Join us for a discussion of Melinda Reidinger’s new book, The White Deer!

In the day, the forest and I were one. I was an animal in an animal’s habitat. In the night, I was an unwelcome human being in a bustling community of other-than-human beings.

When one is an animist, environmentalism isn’t merely about protecting the natural resources for the sake of conserving the resource to be consumable in the future. Instead, it is a way to honor the spirits. It is a way of venerating one’s ancestors.

By W. McCrae and R.G. Miga

By Kadmus

A poem from Alice Fulmer’s upcoming collection, Faunalia

Begins 15 April, 2023

Oppression takes many forms, and there is little use in ranking them. But it is possible that something we see every day looks less oppressive than something we almost never see in real life. There is oppression that becomes normalized, and we mistake that for it being “less oppressive”.