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Category Archives: Archery
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 … 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; its 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 pedal 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 can open us to the creative universe of the unknown. Our town bears the recent loss of a beloved friend, a … Continue reading
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Burning Leaf Moon
Twilight fell into night and a full moon rose with an amber-red glow, like firelight from a wood stove. Our mountains are burning ‘neath a sky that’s forgotten how to rain. A spring-killing drought leaves a deadly thirst among the … Continue reading
Archer’s Moon
Orion stalks a chestnut fattened moon; his bow is tuned, his arrow knocked, he watches for the wide angle that invites the shaft of Ash home to the Mark––the One which only he knows. Shire deer drag their heavy shadows … Continue reading
Autumn’s Crossing
Summer’s spell is nearly broken, as the northern earth gives up another sun. Golden Rod bids a silent farewell, while our overturned shadows trace the polar paths of winter. The Horned Owl is already making plans with the full moon, … Continue reading
The Threshold Moon
The drawn bow opens a threshold held between left hand and right; where potential trembles, an arrow rests. Can the archer hold the patient ground as the tension ripens to that undivided moment of surrender? Will he loose himself into … Continue reading
