Musings of a Quaker Witch (Pagan Quaker)

Shall I tell you about the holiness of every day, of the sacredness of each of the four seasons? Shall I tell you about how tracking the sea...

Today is the longest night and shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. What time did the sun rise where you are, and what time ...

How many of us are sad to learn of Nelson Mandela's death is likely not countable. We all die. Death is part of life.  Mandela died a...

What is something you have learned from Nelson Mandela?

Dear F/friends, This is combination minute/epistle from the recent gathering of the Quaker Concern Around Dying and Death .  Please feel f...

Beloved Friends for LGBTQ Concerns, 
The theme of our Midwinter Gathering, “Radically Inclusive Beloved Community,” guides our efforts to...

Blessed Samhain to you! Whether you are Pagan or not, feel free to share:  Who are your beloved dead whose memory you are honoring...

Edinburgh Solstice Choir Book your place now!  The Edinburgh Solstice Choir is in preparation to sing in the 3rd Annual Edinburgh ...

In my last two labyrinth posts, I talked about the process of realizing we could build a labyrinth in the workshop at Gathering ( here ),...

In March, Madga Pescenye at AskMoxie wrote a lovely, and important, piece about helping our kids navigate the world -- "Let's talk...

I posted recently about the labyrinth my workshop built at FGC Gathering this summer .  I promised I'd post a detailed how-to; here it i...

Thank you so much to everyone who volunteered to test this pattern for me! The draft pattern as a .pdf file is available at http://stasa.n...

Is there a spiritual practice you'd like to be doing regularly, but that you find you aren't quite managing to do? I am putting to...

I am having so very much fun singing with the Edinburgh Complaints Choir, part of the Edinburgh Arts Festival. I signed up because I have...

At Friends General Conference Gathering this summer, I was scheduled to facilitate an updated version of my workshop "The Goddess Is ...

Minute of Exercise from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Annual Sessions 2013: On 7/25/13, approximately 60 people met to respond to the Trans...

It seemed like an odd time of year to be thinking about death. It's spring; life is bounding forth.  It's Beltane, a welcoming of ...

First off, yesterday was Beltane and I was somewhere warm.  That was wonderful.  (What's "warm"?  Er, 15 C / 59 F.  My, how my...

At 9:30 tonight, it was not yet fully dark, and the sky was an amazing deep, bright color, somewhere between deep turquoise and indigo.  W...

I wrote this for my friends on Facebook.  And then people kept asking me if they could share it.  I am honored.   Also, I am grateful to m...