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Winter’s Elixir
An amphibic chorus has erupted from our slumbering wetland borders––Spring Peepers at night, and Chorus Frogs at day; their cold waterbeds a-tremble like mercury beneath the generous light of this high lunar cycle. Daffodils verge on early golden detonations, while … Continue reading
Thresholds
From the ancient lore comes a tradition of stepping across doorway thresholds with a deliberate mind. The forefoot advances with unformed anticipation, while the aft briefly lingers with grateful regard. Grace resides in the pause between, a blessing from an … Continue reading
Posted in Archery, Insight, Solstice, Thresholds, Winter
Tagged alchemy, Archery, Georgia
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Legacy
We’ve been several years sharing archery inspired by Old-World traditions, but have remained keenly aware of a deeper lore embedded in the ground beneath our feet. A beloved teacher once remarked that memory is retained in the crystalline structure of … Continue reading
Anchorpoint
The oaks are shedding visionary poems again; this one has an ambitious project.
Pearls & the Golden Ring
In our August days, the afternoon Cicada buzz––the sound of southern heat––fades into twilight enchantments of the Katydid rattle. Rattles rattling through late summer nights cooling, then break into the wake of the silence––the dew-heavy webs strewn across meadow’s morning … Continue reading
Posted in Archery, Art, Eclipse, Insight, Mythic
Tagged Archery, Moon, Solar Eclipse
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Mother of Bows
A new student recently brought us a fine expression of traditional East African archery; it’s a bow crafted by a man of the Hadza people. The elegance of its effective simplicity, along with the deep cultural traditions which these people … Continue reading
New Earth
In the lore of America’s First Nations is the story of Earth Diver, a mythic precursor of our local Crayfish. Narrations tell of an age when the need arose for new land to appear above the primeval sea, but where … Continue reading
Winter Solstice
Leaning into Winter’s gate, night overcomes our day. The intimacies of light which we huddle around, can burn in three degrees, but in crossing the threshold we turn inside out and lift the Capricorn sun back home to our zenith. … Continue reading
Posted in Archery, Solstice, Thresholds, Winter
Tagged Capricorn, Hermes, Midnight Sun
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Jeremy’s Garden
Tended by a devotional heart Your tender-strong hands Wrestle beauty from The blistered earth A Joseph lifted from The deep well of knowing Set dancing as leaf and petal Pollen-drift and broken stone Hear … Continue reading
Chosen Arrow
While losses to our orbits of family and friends seem to shrink our world of known relations, sometimes it opens us to the creative universe of the unknown. Our town bears the recent loss of a beloved friend, a son … Continue reading
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