Written for the arrival of a new colony of bees into the care and keeping of the Hrafnar Kindred, in the SF Bay Area, April 2013 ( Read more... )

It's still the second where I am!

Invocation

Sun on grass, strike the glass
Fire, burn!
Heart's desire, life inspire
Fill the quern!
Harpstrings tuned, heal the wound
Truth discern!
Flint and steel, turn the wheel
Spring, return!

JGT, 2/93

Invocation ( Read more... )

There are people without whom one would be a very different person. Leigh Ann was one of those, and not just for me ( Read more... )

In the last couple of days, time and season have been much in mind.

It is dpaxson's birthday today, and it seems appropriate on several levels that I post these meditations on her day. I love you lady. I wish I were there in person to mark my joy in your being a part of my life in a more satisfyingly personal way.

It is also leela_cat's birthday, so many happies ( Read more... )

lwood, dpaxson go read this. Be sure to read down through the comments -- there are more verses

Wanders away chortling.

If one were to map the Futhark to the Trumps ( Read more... )

What am I doing up this early? Oh, yeah. May Day, Inspiration point before sunrise, when the Morris dancers dance up the sun.

lori and I got up before 5 this morning, and she made hot chocolate (thank you!!) and we got up the windy empty road in time to get parking at the point, and not down the road. The sky was just beginning to lighten, and people ( Read more... )

Ha! I found my paper-knife! I was looking for the right place to put my Elven warrior so I can see him and yet he would not be in a place where he can get knocked about, and there, in the airy East, next to the bronze knife and parallel to the edge it was. I've been looking for it for nearly two weeks ( Read more... )