Nature & Paganism

Living with Ghosts
(and other reflections)

One Step Up, Two Steps Down: A Semi-Poetic Response to Nonlinear Spiritual Development

Resistant to the call, disdainful and intolerant of embarking on such a path, spirituality arrived like a sledgehammer.

Six Ways to Ground Yourself

Grounding doesn't have to be a lengthy process. The important thing is to make it work for you. Here are six techniques for you to try.

The Manse on the Hill (Weeping for Home)

Despair shifts like the tide, and I am pulled down once again by an undertow of history.

Never Let You Down

Do you remember all the sounds, when I found you by the lake, and how the water seemed to call your name?

A Valkyrie’s Love Poem for the Trees

They have destroyed your beauty, your canopy that once enfolded me into your splendor.

Ewiger Wald: The Roots of Ecofascism and My Love for the Real Eternal Forest

Given Germany’s deeply rooted connection to the woods, I had always assumed that its forests were robust and covered much of the country.

Drumpf Pronounces Death to the Earth

The fate of our planet has just been decided.

Lake Champlain in November

It’s nearly 12pm, windy and with a charcoal gray sky. The trees are bare, exposing large nests that had been carefully constructed...