literature

  • A Smudging of Articles and a Ghost Poem

    It’s Halloween and instead of talking about the ghosts running around in my head, and around my house. I want to share a few articles that explore the topics of the dead, ancestors, devotion, and also a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Honoring the Ancestors of the Dead. A beautiful and poignant essay on the…

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  • I have recently received Camelia Elias’s book on the Marseille Tarot, Towards the Art of Reading, and am finding myself mentally, spiritually and emotionally invigorated and engaged with the cards. For a while now I have been grasping at the images in the cards and making meaning as I go along. The approach she propounds…

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  • For those that have stumbled upon my blog in the past, you may have read my first literary journey post. In this particular post I want to share aspects of what ritual means to me. My basis for this exploration stems from Peter Brook’s book on theatre, The Empty Space. The Holy Space and Ritual…

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