Then and now....morning, 14 November 2014...a mirror to 11.14.2018 (Note for followers of these posts: the promised continuation of September's "Entering Autumn...", further tales of the Ghost Ranch gathering, will follow this post.....Life happens!) .....but nonetheless, "The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. / Don't go back to sleep" And the first secret of …
On Saturday sixteen friends and neighbors - Earth Pilgrims, all - gathered here at Lightspring Glen to give thanks for Summer's blessings and welcome the new season. And as was true for the Barn Christening in June, many more attended in spirit, so we were a lively crowd. As the westering Sun settled gracefully behind …
Continue reading Entering Autumn – the Door is round and open…
Addendum, 7th September The note posted a month ago re. "this blog is under construction" is being belatedly addressed due mostly to the brim-full weeks since my wish to at least post something before the adventure of my Summer got underway this eve of the Leo Solar Eclipse! Placeholders were Mary Oliver's poem and photo …
Continue reading Blackberries and Butterflies – August’s Blessings to September’s Song
The calendar reports that this is the 12th of June. Summer Solstice, the mid-point of the year's Wheel, is only eight days away. In today's bluest of blue skies, the midday Sun is nearing its zenith with the just-about-new Gemini Moon close behind.....tomorrow it will be exact. Bird-life is bustling all about, the Starling fledglings …
We are nine days into April and today's temps, promised to soar into the low 40's, are a much yearned for, very long-awaited warm-up and hopeful heralding of Spring's full arrival. By this date each of the four previous Aprils, I've already thrilled to the Spring peepers' evening chorus here at Lightspring Glen. This year …
The day of Hearts and Cupid arrived this year with a wintry flurry of events, some cosmic and some chillingly earth-bound. The Aquarius New Moon / Solar Eclipse occurred the day after Valentine's Day with Chinese New Year close on its heels welcoming the Year of the Earth Dog. But on 2018's Day of Love …
Continue reading Persistent Hope: Valentine for Mother Earth, 2018
In just a few days' time, the re-birthed Light of Winter Solstice will be a month in its growing, each day now lengthening by a little over one minute. The first New Moon of the year will reign in tomorrow's daytime sky, the Capricorn New Moon. Holiday celebrations are now tucked away in our memories. …
Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~ After a warm and pleasant Fall that lingered long past its usual departure, the …
Earth Pilgrim report: It is more than a considerable blessing to live on these seven acres tucked into the northwest corner of the Catskill Mountains. With a conscious shift of my focus the too-often thunderous cacophony of the news-of-the-world can be muted to a tolerable rumbling. Here this late Summer's important news is how …
In the dark and drear of January, it's summer days like this we dream of..... Chalice Pond is a serene mirror of the woods here at Lightspring Glen, a gentle breeze is adding just the coolness needed for the day's low-80s, (with the humidity blessedly comfortable so far ) fair-weather cumulus clouds are sailing their …
Golden Spiral Journey 