Editing texts with signs of Pressured Speech
Pressured speech is a term used in psychiatry to describe one symptom of a manic episode of Bipolar Disorder, Autism, ADHD, BPD and more. It’s when a person speaks with a sense of urgency, without pauses and often incoherently.
It's Not Too Late to Love the World: In memoriam Michael Dowd
While a lot of people listening to Michael might get stuck on the "It's too late to save the world." part of his message, that was really the just preface to his core message, which was "It's not too late to love the world."
Land: Loss and Reconnection, with Alley Valkyrie
Alley Valkyrie’s popular course starts 1 November
I Was a Fox
You'll think this a strange tale at least, and quite likely you'll think me a liar, but for several years in my youth I was a fox.
Witchcraft: A home of questioning
There is a solitary witch in every wishing well
filling bucket after bucket with life’s blood.
The Island Of The Last Nun
This sequence of poems is based on the meditative practices centred around a journey my spiritual mentor, Jayne Johnson, undertook for me. In this journey, I was taken to an island and instructed to meditate within a ruined clochán.
The Problem with the Term “Pre-Columbian”
Magnificent monuments, pyramids, architecture, crafted forests, agricultural and medicinal technologies, possibly 100 million people scattered across some 40 million square kilometers of land are all placed in the shadow of this one man. This is too unrealistic to be scientific.
Realists of a Larger Reality
The introduction to Rhyd Wildermuth’s latest book., Here Be Monsters: How To Fight Capitalism Instead of Each Other.
Curious Creatures
The folk beast is an archaic terror, and that is at least a part of its continuing power and of its continuing appeal.
Vinyl Paganism
What I call “vinyl paganism” means consciously choosing technologies that allow us to slow down, pay attention, be present in place and in our bodies, and let the more-than-human world speak to us in its own way.
Swan cubs and Trampoline
- Look, this is how quiet I can be,
the child said to a star in the sky
An Ode to the Game of Poker
The biggest obstacles to women in the poker world are: “having the money to play and the confidence in their ability to win.”
Of Chaos and Of Monsters
“Change will come even — and especially — for this order, too.”
The new author’s introduction to True To The Earth, by Kadmus