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	<description>I am glad to the brink of fear</description>
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		<title>blessed Lughnasadh</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Lughnasadh poem from Anne Morrow Lindbergh - Praise life-Praise life- Before the fall Of winter&#8217;s knife, They stand and call, O man, praise life. The bee who goes To the aster knows December&#8217;s fear; The butterfly On a daisy&#8217;s eye, That death is near; Flies in the sun, That summer&#8217;s done; Ripe berries wait [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nettle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=761428&amp;post=608&amp;subd=nettle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>drum and splash 2010. best be ready when the horned one comes.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend, I went to my third Drum and Splash at Four Quarters Farm. One of my big life themes for the past year has been learning to live on my own. For all that I like to think of myself as an independent person, the fact is that I don&#8217;t run off and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nettle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=761428&amp;post=599&amp;subd=nettle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This being human is a guest house</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 05:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This being human is a guest house Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still treat each guest honorably. He may [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nettle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=761428&amp;post=590&amp;subd=nettle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The bond of Love, heavy with Fire</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 18:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am finding myself in the odd situation of having almost nothing to blog about. Not because there’s nothing going in with me but because none of the things that I have going on are things I feel OK about talking about in this public way. I could talk about that one thing – but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nettle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=761428&amp;post=585&amp;subd=nettle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spoutwood 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 23:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got back on Sunday from two days at the Spoutwood Fairie Festival. It was a good time, as expected. Just the right amounts of silliness and beauty, in appropriate proportions. The best part of the festival was of course meeting old and new friends. I went with my friend Maebius and his family, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nettle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=761428&amp;post=581&amp;subd=nettle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Imagistic religion, mystery cults, festivals</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anthropologist Harvey Whitehouse writes about what he terms imagistic vs. doctrinal religions. I&#8217;ve come across the terms lately when reading about the practices of Hellenic mystery cults. The doctrinal mode of religion is characterized by a top-down hierarchy, involving regularly repeated daily or weekly rituals, written texts, standard teachings, and lower levels of emotional arousal. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nettle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=761428&amp;post=573&amp;subd=nettle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We aim to help</title>
		<link>http://nettle.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/we-aim-to-help/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday, I woke up to a beautiful spring day with nothing in particular planned. This is the first time this has happened to me since, well, last spring, so during my morning meditation I found myself thinking about what I wanted to do with my day. The thought came unbidden, “I should go to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nettle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=761428&amp;post=569&amp;subd=nettle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Equinox 2010: Opening up in sweet surrender</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An open heart is a tangible thing. There are people who walk around with their hearts wide open, all the time, and as long as they are healthy about setting boundaries, this open-heartedness can be felt and enjoyed by anyone who is paying attention. Love is healing and the ability to openly, honestly love anyone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nettle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=761428&amp;post=565&amp;subd=nettle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>indulging in brazen gazes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rob Brezsny says of my upcoming week: &#8220;It&#8217;s time for you to stop specializing in furtive glimpses and start indulging in brazen gazes. You&#8217;re ready to phase out your role as a peripheral influence and see if you can be more of a high-intensity instigator and organizer. Yes, Cancerian, you&#8217;ve earned the right to claim [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nettle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=761428&amp;post=559&amp;subd=nettle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feet on the ground, part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Just as I predicted, the question of “what does it mean to be Earth-based, anyway?” is loping off on me as I cling on and try to rein it in. I’ve been reading and thinking about your comments and comments I&#8217;ve gotten elsewhere, about the speakers I heard on Thorn’s podcast (my love for Orion [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nettle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=761428&amp;post=553&amp;subd=nettle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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