Posts from ‘December, 2009’

Thanksgiving 2008 in the USA, I was on tour and I decided on the best mode of celebration for my big event in 2009. It all started with a 20 hour train ride to San Francisco.  I got on board the Amtrak Pacific Coast train service to San Francisco about noon.  I found my sleeper [...]

As those of us who reside in Winter Climes are mending the harnesses and stoking the blaze, we can find a time to pause and reflect. It is a time to let our thoughts drift and flow.  It is a time to gather closer and to communicate with light and balance. For those of us [...]

On New Year’s Eve hundreds of thousands of people around the world will be welcoming in the new calendar of possibilities with Peace Dancing. Peace Dancing is similar to folk dancing but it is done to music which is rhythmically chanting a prayer or meditation phrase.  I have also seen so very loud and high [...]

The work of this dark season of the year is centered on myth, magic, and the materials to bring that about. Sometimes it just seems like a pressure and stress, which could easily overwhelm or can just as easily delight. It is important to remember that one is creating the rituals of a cultural definition [...]