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Roles — and how we use them, misuse them, abuse them, take them up, take them on, and lay them aside (or don’t) — have been on my mind and heart recently. My husband and I have moved on from the clothing part of ‘tidying up’ to sorting books. We are not yet finished with …
On narrow, one-track English, Irish, Scottish, and Orcadian roads, there are passing places: small semi-circular areas cut into the hedge or berm, where one vehicle can pull to the side to allow an on-coming vehicle to pass. There is a gesture of thanks that goes with this — the on-coming driver uncurls the fingers of …
I remind myself it is Imbolc and Imbolc is the season of new beginnings and new ideas, new perspectives, new awareness. Imbolc is a renewing opportunity to learn the spiritual, emotional, psychological, basics all over again. This is a good thing, because… …it’s a trick and a half to walk around in England at the …