A Pagan's Blog

One of the greatest things about traveling are the new discoveries I make along the way.  When I was in Kansas an old friend gave me a wonderful CD by Celia.  Some of you already know about her, I’m sure.  But I didn’t. Here is one song that reduced me to tears.  Even when I…

Books exploring the philosophical implications of science by contemporary scientists tend to fall into two categories: those that assert and explore the implications of scientific reductionism and those that explore the implications of quantum physics.  Neither is directly relevant o a Pagan world view, and both can be used to attack it.  Now Stuart Kauffman’s…

I had planned a post on a wonderful book for today.   But Barack Obama has pushed it to another day.  Tonight Barack Obama joined George Bush in our growing national pastime of escalating military adventures without a clear reason for doing so. What a disappointment in a man who has promised so much and delivered…

Spending Thanksgiving in Lawrence, Kansas, was not a good way to get much writing done for this blog.  Between seeing my family, from brothers and sisters-in-law to their kids and their kids’ kids, plus other wives, cousins and their succeeding generations was delightful and exhausting at the same time.  Add to that finding the time…

From someone whose only wisdom in this case was to listen to a friend. About a year ago my friend Michael convinced me to get an external hard drive for back up.  Without that back up, when my hard drive crashed last week a major pain in the neck would have been a catastrophe, with…

One of the nicest things about Pagans is that in general we do not get into hot arguments about theology.  What unites our smaller communities are common practices, not common beliefs.  We are little worried if others are not Wiccans or Heathens or Celtic Reconstructionists or devotees to Orishas or whatever, because we do not…

Yesterday a poor crashed hard drive was removed from this computer, and a new super duper one installed in its place.  The good folks at MacAdvantage said I had replaced an economy car with a Hummer.  Most of the rest of the day went to fixing the rough edges of the transplant – like getting…

I found a way in to post – courtesy of the error I made on my last blog post.  I’ll correct it  when I leave Maine.  But again, that post that should have been there is here.  Enjoy   It’s an Open Thread for now.  I take off for the West Coast tomorrow.  Business as…

Courtesy of Balloon Juice, a very nice piece by Faun.

I spent all of yesterday crossing the country from California to Maine.   I’m taking advantage of a free ticket I got from being “bumped” on a flight months ago in order to be at my godson’s birthday party up mid-coast way. I got up a lot earlier than I like to get the flight, and …

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