Seasonings

Summer Hawthorn

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Summer. Not my best season.

While most people are thrilled with sunshine

June 10, 2024

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Equinox and Eclipse

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I am already dreading the eclipse. I am awed by it, of course. Awed that it will roll across the United States, arriving in

March 19, 2024

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Imbolc, Groundhog Day, Presentation, Candlemas …

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… Lunar New Year, Tet, days getting longer, people complaining about winter …

February 1, 2024

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Winter Solstice

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Dorie Greenspan has a classic recipe for the perfect cookie that she got from Pierre Hermé. It’s basically a French sablé but like an

December 21, 2023

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Advent 2023

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As soon as we arrived in St. Petersburg, Florida, in the early 60s, my parents went “church shopping,” visiting Methodist churches one after another.

December 3, 2023

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Seeing in the Dark

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It is said that when Druids were in training they would spend hours at a time in stone beehive huts, utterly in the dark,

December 13, 2022

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November

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Show’s over, folks. And didn’t October do A bang-up job? …. Maggie Dietz, “November,” in That Kind of Happy (The University of Chicago Press, 2016)

November 1, 2022

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Poem for the Season

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Each day, the autumn, eating a little further into the bone. … Poem Kerry Hardie. Image by Dede Hatch

September 9, 2022

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