Sometimes the line between audience and performer becomes irreversibly blurred… I am looking through a closet full of clothes that I haven’t worn in years. My mom walks up to me and exclaims, “You need to get dressed, it’s almost time for the show!” She helps me into an elegant costume that we have both…Read More
Articles from June 2019
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A Dread Unfounded (Dispatches from the Underground)
How did we do in our June predictions? Plus rituals, friends, and the Human in the East on the Longest Day Ever since word went out on the street six months ago that June and July of 2019 would be dark, treacherous, ugly months, I’ve been dreading the start of June. Imagine that — my…Read More
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How to Forage for Mushrooms and Not Die (Persephone Days)
It’s easy enough that a four-year-old can do it Even if you’re not a fan of the texture of mushrooms as food, the fungal kingdom is important in the permaculture/gardening world. Fungi help plants communicate and often provide their very lifeline to minerals, water, and other important pieces of forest life. It’s really an incredible bonus that…Read More
Medieval reality was awesome.
There is no Sucks: A Solstice Message
What sort of creature are you? What are you here to do? On the solstice, the pinnacle of our year, the zenith of the light, triumph of our sun, we are always offered a glimpse of the heights to which we might ascend. Today’s rays offer us a rare level of clarity, the kind that…Read More
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Be Careful Tonight (Dispatches from the Underground)
After all, A Midsummer Night’s Dream was a documentary Greetings, friends, at the beginning of Midsummer’s Eve — the most magical, mischievous, and tricksy night of the entire year. Need examples? Check Shakespeare’s play or, for a more modern retelling, A Midsummer Night’s Trip, a two-part podcast episode from 2017 chronicling the MIS-adventures faced by myself and my coterie during…Read More
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The Day Tony Soprano Died
Family and loss on the anniversary of James Gandolfini’s death This story was originally published on awinnerisme.com Fatherhood. For a single guy with no prospects, it sure is something I like to think about. My dad. I see the man two ways. First, in my childhood as the archetype, Jack Arnold from The Wonder Years kind of Dad.…Read More
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The Attempted Abrexi Checkmate
Hearing the dying mantra and prayer of all Time Jumpers It was several days until Gavin Delph saw the light again. Slowly and purposefully, he made his way through the serpentine tunnels of an unknown world; soaked in unending darkness, starless and bible black. He knew from the The Winkler’s map that the tunnels ran…Read More
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Dispatches from the Underground: It’s June in America
Yeah, let’s live for the wonder of it all. A reality update, a planet update, the story of a wedding, being a fake minister, and more It might seem risky to talk about it at all, even at this late hour, but let’s be honest with ourselves. We’re now fully thirteen days into the month…Read More
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The Haven at Polar Bear Rock
On the need for places of refuge at all stages of life — and beyond Growing up in New Jersey, we five kids were rather feral, often wandering our woods and exploring the nearby meadows, ponds, and streams for entire summer days. When I was about eight and late for supper, my sister and I…Read More
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The Good, the Bad, and the Twisted
Cannabis, Legalization, and New Hampshire, Part 4 May 28, 2019 5:58 PM High in the hill country of New Hampshire So far, we’ve explored the New Hampshire Therapeutic Cannabis Program in my series (Cannabis, Legalization, and New Hampshire: an exposé from a patient’s point of view). I’ve been on the outside, on the inside, and…Read More