On being grateful…

…it wouldn’t be a fruitful first week of gratitude if I didn’t say how much I appreciate having friends. And not just “friends,” but, more specifically, girlfriends, like girlfriends you can call to share a bump in the road, and they drop everything and appear at your front door in minutes. With wine — which you …

Why does violence in a sacred space feel so very wrong?

Mike the Heathen sends this, “Violence and Sacred Space” at The Wild Hunt. The piece includes this: …Pagans can respect the sacred nature of a Christian church, even if they don’t follow the religion; and vice versa, a Christian can recognize the sanctity of Wiccan circle or Heathen temple. “The intrinsic lines” separating the sacred …