Of all the pagan holidays, I struggled with how to even observe Samhain: for one, many of its traditions are rooted in faith-based practices (i.e. believing in [insert thing here]), and second, it's a holiday of reflection and remembrance. I am not one to dwell in the past, and I have my own particular way of dealing with death (that many don't understand and find cold or callous). Regardless, as much as I came into Samhain with hardly any inkling of what to do, I devised my

Though I walked away from religion, I never became an atheist but an agnostic. There's plenty unknown about life and the universe, and I cannot say higher powers do exist nor that they don't. I'm somewhere between a Mulder and Scully: absence of proof doesn't not validate an unseen truth, nor does it prove a negative. What attracted me to paganism is not the idea of a higher power but the commitment to living the best life possible, to celebrate what I have, not what I asp

The new books I read in 2025.

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