Winter Begins and Ends

SUBHEAD: A challenging winter bookended by two special moons. Let's hope this spring ends like a lamb.By Juan Wilson on 21 March 2011 for Island Breath - (http://islandbreath.blogspot.com/2011/03/winter-begins-and-ends.html)Image above: Full moon with rainbow halo similar to moon observed in the wee hours of 3/20/19. From (http://www.angelvillanueva.com/en/photography/index.htm). The winter of

Praying For Peace•Promoting War

SUBHEAD: If some misinformed fool attempts to point out the consequences of consumerism, shrug him off as a terrorist.By Guy McPherson on 23 December 2010 in Nature Bats Last - (http://guymcpherson.com/2010/12/praying-for-peace-promoting-war)Image above: Imperial Stormtroopers arrest Santa, Emperor to take over Xmas. From (http://gizmodo.com/tag/santa-arrested-by-imperial-stormtroopers).A

All I Want for Xmas Is the Truth

SUBHEAD: Scholarly research provides us with some important ideas about the holiday season.By Peter M. Nardi on 20 December 2010 in Miller-McCune -(http://www.miller-mccune.com/culture-society/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-the-truth-26260)Image above: Detail of "Adoration of the Shepards" by Anton Raphael Mengs (circa 1750). From (http://www.abcgallery.com/M/mengs/mengs.html).By now, if you hear

And to All a Good Night

SUBHEAD: Merry Christmas everyone, and to all a jolly week of schmoozing, boozing, gifting and grifting.By James Kunstler on 20 December 2010 for Kunstler.com - (http://kunstler.com/blog/2010/12/and-to-all-a-good-night.html)Image above: "Twas the Night BEfore Chrsitmas". Illustration by Eundelom, circa 1953. From (http://www.countrymusicislove.com/2009/12/1-day-till-christmas.html).At this time

Bridging the Transition

SUBHEAD: The strategy of staged disconnection is not catabolic but metabolic; it taps into existing resource flows before shortages become severe.By John Michael Greer on 15 December 2010 for Archdruid Report - (http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2010/12/two-lessons-in-practical-ecology.html)Image above: A bridge disappears into the distance in the Coasta Rican Monteverde Cloud Forest. From

Twas the Evening of Samhain

SUBHEAD: A poem inspired by "Twas the Night Before Christmas" honoring Samhain in the context of Halloween.Image above: Trick or Treaters at the door. From (http://media.photobucket.com/image/trick%20or%20treat,%20doorway/rosliothman/Selingan/halloween2.jpg).By Cather Steincamp on 31 October 1999 -(http://www.twpt.com/samcatalyst.htm) 'Twas the evening of Samhain, and all

Frost on the Pumpkin

SUBHEAD: Halloween is the end of the warm times and the beginning of the cold. The harvest is in. Let's hope it is enough.Image above: Frost on the pumpkins. From (http://timehaven.us/).By Juan Wilson on 28 October 2010 - Halloween is upon us. A time of ghosts, witches and pumpkins. Celebrating it is an ancient tradition in our culture reaching back before Christianity to the ancient Celts and