Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. ~ Garrison Keillor And going to bløts no more makes you Heathen than standing in a garage makes you a car. Showing up is a start, but then what do you do with the experience afterward? Did […]
Pollack saw miracles in the world, and she was someone who taught other people to see them. Most famously, she did this through the Tarot; she was a world-renowned expert on the cards, consulted and cited by authors like Alexander Chee and Neil Gaiman. Her book on the Rider-Waite, 78 Degrees of Wisdom, is the […]
Today in “Heathener Than Thou”, let’s look at the practice some heathens insist one must do if one is a “real” heathen: eat Ancestrally, aka, only eat what a Viking Era Scandinavian would have eaten. Setting aside that “ancestrally”, while technically correct, grates on the ears, let’s look at “eat as your ancestors did”. I’m […]
I am fortunate that my work commute is about 15 minutes each way, made in the comfort of my car. As I drive, I see people walking, some carrying bags of groceries or baskets of laundry, sometimes pushing a child in a stroller, sometimes carrying bags and pushing a stroller, and possibly with a furred […]
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 – 7pm Pacific, presented by Bird & Beckett Books & Records, San Francisco, CA WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY “Don’t Hate the Media, Become the Media! How Your Local Story Can Inform The World” A live streamed and in-person event with Lisa Loving, author of Street Journalist: Understand & Report the News […]
