I feel like a migrant myself this equinox. I didn’t have far to travel, a few kilometres, but still an undertaking in the city where I live: to downsize, pack up, move a decade-plus life, unpack again. I’m still settling in, still getting to know new neighbours, new gathering places. I keep happening upon hidden […]
View Post In the spring of 2019 I visited Agrigento in Sicily, a huge, ancient pilgrimage site of Greek temples. It was only at the end of the first day that I came upon the ruins of temples for Demeter, Persephone and Dionysus, what the sign called “the chthonic deities.” I felt a spirit there […]
“If you want peace, work for justice.” Pope Paul VI, 1 January 1972, World Day of Peace War in spring seems antithetical, a jarring contradiction of realities. While birds are returning north to nest (I saw my first geese on March 6th) in many places the world’s armies are sending out “drones” on attack missions. […]