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Guidance by Word, Card, and Star

  • Reconciling Dreams and Reality IV: the Struggle for Interpretation

    This post is taken from my journal of the fifth and sixth days of my ten-day fast and meditation to gain clarity on my career path. Friday, Sept. 10, 2010 Dreams. I had three dreams. First, I was riding with some other people on donkeys through an autumn forest, looking for a monastery of some… Continue reading

  • Words of the Day: Luck, May, Me, My, Mine

    My old blog, the Word of the Day, is defunct, and I’m getting ready to take it down. Before I do, though, I’m going to repost some of the best words here over the next few weeks. Enjoy! Luck There are precious few words of completely unknown origin. This fact is a tribute to the… Continue reading

  • Reconciling Dreams and Reality III: The Dragon and the Jewels

    This post is taken from my journal of the third and fourth days of my ten-day fast and meditation to gain clarity on my career path. Wednesday, Septemper. 8, 2010 Dreams.Along with my eldest daughter’s Waldorf teacher, I am co-teaching a bunch of… 4th graders? In the dream, which appeared to be set a few… Continue reading

  • Words of the Day: Hobbit, Honest, I

    My old blog, the Word of the Day, is defunct, and I’m getting ready to take it down. Before I do, though, I’m going to repost some of the best words here over the next few weeks. Enjoy! Hobbit The word hobbit sprang without warning into Tolkien’s mind while he was grading exams. He simply… Continue reading

  • Words of the Day: Grammar, Hand, Hiawatha

    My old blog, the Word of the Day, is defunct, and I’m getting ready to take it down. Before I do, though, I’m going to repost some of the best words here over the next few weeks. Enjoy! Grammar Ultimately from Proto Indo European gerbh, “to scratch”; also the ancestor of carve, crab, crayfish, crawl,… Continue reading

  • Reconciling Dreams and Reality II: The Pool of the Moon

    This post is taken from my journal of the second day of my ten-day fast and meditation to gain clarity on my career path. Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010 Today I was feeling a little odd, or a little off, from the raw vegan fast. I didn’t have many cravings, but was often pretty hungry and… Continue reading

  • Words of the Day: Genius, Glorious, Gods and Guides

    My old blog, the Word of the Day, is defunct, and I’m getting ready to take it down. Before I do, though, I’m going to repost some of the best words here over the next few weeks. Enjoy! Genius Genius comes from Proto Indo European gen, meaning something like “produce” or “generate”, the progenitor of… Continue reading

  • Reconciling Dreams and Reality I: Balancing the Sun and Moon

    In September of 2010, shortly after making contact with the Bear guide, I was struggling to reconcile my career with my heart. This is a struggle a lot of people have, but my situation was much easier than most: I have an excellent job that I like a lot. In fact, perhaps you’re wondering how… Continue reading

  • A Conversation with iGod

    Today Ali pointed me to an interesting site which allows you to “chat” with “God”, by which I mean, interact conversationally with a computer program impersonating the supreme deity. I am not certain who is behind this sacrilege / work of art / holy relic, or how exactly it was programmed or trained; I tried… Continue reading

  • Blood and Bone

    In 2009 I almost had to choose between my fiancée and my children. I was recently divorced, and had just met an extraordinary woman; but she lived five hundred miles away.  Ali was in Pittsburgh, and I lived in Massachusetts, near my children, my ex-wife, and her fiancé.  At first I resigned myself to a… Continue reading

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Word, Card, and Star – a journey through language, divination, and inspiration. A chronicle of my search for guidance, insight, and a connection to nature and the ancient world. Along the way, I hope to discover beauty, connection, groundedness, and a sense of wonder.

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