A scheme to free living intelligence My brothers, mother and I are in a city. We enter a building owned by a middle-aged man. From the inside, it looks rather unremarkable, except for three interesting looking tanks in the middle of the floor. I realize in horror that each of the tanks has a live…Read More
Articles from March 2019
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Dispatches from the Underground: Deloused at the Touch of Grey
Agitation, evisceration, survival, and dividends. Stocks and bonds. We seem to have turned a corner this week; I can feel something shifting, and I’m not just talking about the fact that the weather is breaking. Today in particular I felt a lot better. But the last three weeks or so, I’ve been very agitated. Not…Read More
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The Action Unfolding with the Thought
The mind will work alongside the body. It will also do its own work outside of the body. We can get by on the disconnect most people, myself included, have with their bodies — for a while. There is a disconnect when we give way to negative thoughts and perceptions about how our body should…Read More
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Harp Lessons
The first time she saw a full-sized harp, my daughter Clover was speechless. When its owner Pam invited her to play it, she was too overcome with emotions I can’t even properly name to accept. Clover had just turned five and had received a dulcimer — her “lap harp” — for her birthday after months…Read More
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Holding Back the Greenest Spring
Cannabis, Legalization, and New Hampshire (Part 1): Back to the Roots March 10, 2019High in the New Hampshire hills Sunday morning by the woodstove, watching the snowfall here at 2000’ in the hills of New Hampshire. It’s been a long cold winter to this point. The snow fell early this year — before Thanksgiving —…Read More
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Dispatches from the Underground #2: Crossovers and Franklins
On songs and films that get beyond words, why my kid’s friends’ parents are good, turning 35, and obligatory Julius Caesar references I can’t stop listening to Help on the Way →Slipknot! →Franklin’s Tower. This is a conversation normally dominated by Franklin’s Tower, but it’s been Help on the Way that’s attracting the bulk of…Read More
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Dreamscapes: It’s Hard Out Here for a Wolf (Part 2)
I am back in my childhood home yet again, and I really need to leave and go back to the desert. I don’t tell my mother because I know she won’t understand. She drives me to a nail polish store. I enter the store, leaving her in the car, and inside the building I look…Read More
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A Wizard’s Meditation for Spring
A happy equinox and many blessings to you all May you note today the equality of light and dark,May you feel that balance for what it is: magnificent and momentary.May you have the seeds you need to plant your year,Failing that, may you find them in the days now to come.May they be healthy seeds.May…Read More
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13 Days to Glory
A wizard’s outlook for the remaining days of March Ah, March. The year’s turning point in any old boring year — and this is no ordinary old boring year. At this point, of course, we’re more than halfway through the month, so hopefully you’ve got a fair idea of what this time is all about,…Read More
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Hunting Down Old Man Winter
Devoting chunks of winter days to hunting flips the script: hunting is visceral, bloody. This isn’t about this isn’t about rest or quiet contemplation, this isn’t about a dormant period. There’s no hint of surrender to the painful days of February — hunting is vital. It’s pure action — even the image of a still…Read More