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Beltane 2013 – union and loneliness
Beltane fell on a Wednesday this year. It’s my favorite holiday, but even though it is a holiday of union, this year it leaves me feeling rather lonely. On Sunday I’d intended to rise early and make the trip across the river … Continue reading
Posted in gender and sexuality, my glamorous life, politics, race and class, religion and spirituality, writing
Tagged beltane, bisexuality, boston poetry, cambridge, cambridge ma, community, current events, glbt, human rights, loneliness, on being a queer poet, paganism, poetry, politics, queer, relationships, religion, society, union, unitarian universalism, workshops
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the plant reaches toward the light
marigold meant for marriage by the front door — for luck – grows leggy and strange in its pursuit of the light that falls just short of the door it blooms barely marigold but still blooms tiny yellow hearts at … Continue reading
Posted in gender and sexuality, my glamorous life, poetry, religion and spirituality, wheel of the year
Tagged aloe plant, army guy, bisexuality, blooms, boston, domestic partnership, doom, earth-based spirituality, gardening, high summer, lesbian marriage, love, marigolds, marriage, men, nature, plants, poetry, poetry - mine, religion, shacking up, shade gardening, spirit, spiritual practice, summer, summertime in boston, sunlight, sunlight of the spirit
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Virtue (draft 2)
virtue used to be the force that drove the green fuse through the flower used to pulse with its own power used to drive the edge of the knife through the waiting flesh faded to smooth brows and veiled heads … Continue reading
Posted in poetry, religion and spirituality
Tagged history of the english language, obedience, pap, poetry, poetry - mine, religion, semantics, virtue
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Samhain and the shedding skin
Of all our holidays, Samhain is the most obviously pagan in its origins. Halfheartedly assimilated by Christians as Halloween (or “All Saints’ Day” for the truly pious), the focus on the underworld — on death and dying — is hard … Continue reading
Gratitude — and why do you hate Jesus?
I go in and out of the habit of posting gratitude lists on this blog. I usually include the word “gratitude practice” in the title of these posts, but I wonder if perhaps that sounds pretentious. People refer to a … Continue reading
Book Review: Sword of the Lord, by Andrew Himes
With his newly released book Sword of the Lord: The Roots of Fundamentalism in an American Family, Andrew Himes creates a history that is both well-researched and deeply personal. It’s a history that’s about more than dates and place-names. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in religion and spirituality, reviews
Tagged andrew himes, books, christianity, fundamentalism, history, religion, reviews, sword of the lord
Interview with Andrew Himes, author of Sword of the Lord
Publishing houses have been complaining about losing money since the dawn of the printing press. For about that long, authors have been complaining about how hard it is to make it into print. Many more authors make it into print … Continue reading
Posted in blogospheric, events, religion and spirituality, reviews
Tagged andrew himes, book reviews, books, history, interviews, religion, reviews, spirituality, sword of the lord
Posted at Standing Loud: Loudness and Lovingkindness
A woman named Calliope invited me to join a group blog called “Standing Loud: A place where a loud, proud woman can speak her piece.” On Friday I published my first article on the topic of Loudness and Lovingkindness. Please … Continue reading
Best answer to tensions between Muslims and Christians ever
I declare that I do not give a damn about sheep or fish, Arabs or Christians, the East or the West, Carthage or Rome, [...] Jerusalem or Sodom, Cairo or Saint Petersburg, Saint John or Judas, foreskin or anus, virgins … Continue reading
Posted in gender and sexuality, religion and spirituality, reviews
Tagged islam, on being a woman writer, religion, sexual politics, sexuality
Mother Lil’s Jesus
“Try my Jesus,” she said. “My Jesus is your Jesus.” She had the warm, rounded curves of a mature Jamaican woman. She wore white — white tunic, white pants, a white head wrap. Her name was Mother Lil. When I … Continue reading
Posted in religion and spirituality
Tagged catholicism, christianity, jesus, memoir, ministry, obatala, oya, paganism, religion, santeria, spiritual practice, syncretism, unitarian universalism, withcraft, yemaya
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