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Fruitful February 2024 Almanac Dear Friends, Spring is coming.  Though it’s yet mid-winter, Earth is waking from her winter somnolence and quickening the ever-ready forces of Nature.  Daylight, which bottomed out just six weeks ago at the Winter Solstice, is … Continue reading →

January 2024 Almanac, Year in Review Keep some room in your heart for the Unimaginable  —Mary Oliver Dear friends, It’s winter, and night outpaces the day.  Winter is a season of stillness, dormancy, and hibernation, the life force retreating within … Continue reading →

Dreaming December Almanac It isn’t more light we need.  It’s putting into practice what light we already have.  When we do that, wonderful things will happen within our lives and within our world.  –Peace Pilgrim Dear friends, The Winter Solstice … Continue reading →

Nurturing November Almanac The true life of the bowl began the moment it was dropped. –Ancient Kintsugi quote We’re halfway to the Winter Solstice and all is going to ground, temperatures sinking, darkness pressing, daylight draining as the sun’s stipend of … Continue reading →

Opportune October Almanac It’s as if we’re always preparingfor something.  The endless roll of the earthripening us.             From Late August, by Mary Chivers We are entering October—a time of harvest which brings the last year’s cycle to a close.  … Continue reading →

September Almanac All that matters is that you are making something you love, to the best of your ability, here and now. ― Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being It’s coming up to the Autumnal Equinox, and … Continue reading →

 Ardent August Almanac Love is still the only revenge. It grows each time the earth is set on fire.     –Ayisha Siddiqua, excerpt from “ON ANOTHER PANEL ABOUT CLIMATE, THEY ASK ME TO SELL THE FUTURE AND ALL I’VE GOT IS … Continue reading →

Judicious July AlmanacI know so many people desperate to make a difference now, to turn things around NOW.  It’s hard to say, but it’s possible we’re part of a bucket brigade here; you got the bucket from somebody else and … Continue reading →

Genial June Almanac Dear friends,  June marks the transition from Spring to Summer.   The Sun, the source and substance of life itself, is high overhead, beckoning us to expand, to engage with life’s abundance, and above all, to keep going.  … Continue reading →

Mighty May Almanac Dear friends, We’re halfway to the Summer Solstice and everything, everywhere is exploding with fertility, new growth, and sparkling aliveness in North Carolina.  We have gotten through the eye of Spring’s needle.  The specter of withering night-time … Continue reading →