Executive Pagan

This week is going to be busy, and next week I’m traveling on business and won’t be able to blog; so I’m not going to post again until May 5th (unless something comes up that just can’t wait… and blogging emergencies are pretty rare ).

You have to be one with your whosit and do it for the joy of making it way cool. - Christopher Bingham

Interesting quiz, and fairly tough - this is is the one that has been talked about in the news recently as reflecting a general decline in Americans’ civic literacy. I think it’s a pretty good touchstone, although a certain amount of bias is evident in some of the economics questions (that doesn’t necessarily mean I [...]

I recently came across this poem/benediction by David Miley, another UU Druid blogger; I am reposting it here with permission (thanks, David!). May it move you as much as it has moved me.
There is a Sound
There is a Sound,
That supports the World.
It is tree dance
And brook babbling.
It is summer storm [...]

Here’s a very cool video of a Japanese farmer making a new shimenawa (the braided rice-straw rope that marks out the sacred in Shinto tradition) and shide (zigzag paper streamers) at the New Year

Young dogwood, flowering in the woods. The surrounding trees still mostly winter-brown, some with a bright green halo of new leaves - and the pink and white blossoms shining at eye level like the trumpet of a herald, announcing the arrival of spring.

I don’t read tarot too often - on the rare occasions I feel a need for divination, I usually use either the Homer oracle or the Limyran (Greek alphabet) oracle, although I sometimes use a tarot reading to sanity-check my results - but I do love to collect decks that I consider either particularly beautiful [...]