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A Dream of Horses
There are moments, for each of us I think, when we come to feel utterly alone in the world. It seems an absurd notion when the vast majority of us are so packed in together that we could scarcely...
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Thunder and Lightning — a Poem for Yule
I am the wind that rattles the door in its frame. A white beard lay upon my green cloak like frost on mistletoe. A bell tolls when I pass and ravens follow in my wake. Donder and Blitzen, Thunder and...
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A eulogy gone rogue.
The first time I met John Constantine was back in the early 90‘s. I was an Art student with a crappy minimum wage job and barely enough coin in my pocket to afford something off the dollar menu at...
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In case of vampires…,
It has been a very busy week and while I really haven’t had much opportunity to keep up with current events, I did notice this entry in The Wild Hunt announcing the addition of Thor’s Hammer to the...
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The God in the Kiln
I miss the fire. There is something ritualistic about working feverishly on a project, pushing and pulling the resistant clay into the shape you envisioned, fighting against time and relative humidity...
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Lugh: A Prelude
Lughnasadh, the Celtic celebration of the first harvest, arrives this week, and I could not be more busy. It’s my own fault, after a fashion. I requested a couple days off from work this week, to...
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The Mirror
She crouched in the middle of the gallery floor and we stood outside, watching her. She clung to that spot, naked, neither posed nor at rest, her face turned away from us in base humiliation. And yet...
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Pass the Roast Beast
In June of this year Texas Governor Rick Perry and the Texas legislature passed vital legislation to ensure that school children throughout the state would be safe from the Grinch. Teachers may now...
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Way of the Warrior
I walked, recently, through an exhibit of Samurai armor and artifacts, which is currently on display at the Kimball Art Museum in my home of Fort Worth, Texas. Passing from display to display, I found...
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Monsters in the Mist?
We had only just met, when you first mentioned that book to me. I was aware of it, of course. In those days the science fiction and fantasy section of the local bookstore was like a second home to me....
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Sacred Space: Spirit in the Tree
My neighbors must think I’m crazy. I’ve been spending a lot of time in my backyard recently, staring up at the dead tree which stands at its center. Every few days, I find myself walking in circles...
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Sacred Space: By Design
I suppose one would have to say that the most important thing about progress reports is that there BE some progress to report. In the case of my backyard shrine project, there has been precious little...
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A resurrection done right?
Oh my friends, John Constantine is back from the dead! You may remember that it has been almost twenty months since they put him in the ground. By my own count it has been one-year, seven-months, and...
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We disappoint, we disappear, we die, but we don’t.
“Once upon a time, in a far off kingdom…,” Things were moving along just fine until they removed my favorite song. I mean, I understand that with the necessities of condensing two full acts of musical...
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To Live Among the Martyrs
A few weeks ago I was killing some time during a break at work, just puttering around on Facebook, when a friend shared this image…, I was pretty sure it had been faked. After all, the resolution of...
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Oh, but we do!
We were sent a message a few weeks ago. On a mountaintop in Northern Ireland, a six-foot tall statue of the Irish sea god Manannán Mac Lir was stolen by vandals, ripped away from its foundation...
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Picking up the pieces
I was pleased, earlier this week, to see a small but emphatic shout of joy ring out from certain portions of this, our internet. This, in response to a bit of unexpected good news, as word spread that...
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All Beings in Moderation
I woke up a half an hour ago, but I’m pretending to be asleep still. My eyes are closed, my face pressed into the pillow, my breathing steady, I’m giving every possible indication that I am still...
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Approaching Change
Sometimes I sit down to write these posts and I know exactly what I want to say and how I want to say it. There may be some notes I’ve jotted down, or links to some relevant website containing...
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How many more weeks of Winter?
My first sculpture, in clay, was of the groundhog. I was in the second grade. And it was awful. Why had my teacher picked the end of January to bring a couple bags of clay into the classroom and tell …...
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