The Killing Ice
The story of Odin begins with three brothers going to take out a giant. What we modern folks tend to forget is that there are a lot of places in …
Category: Intersection
My Bright Full Moon
This week, a friend linked me to a song and after I heard it, I couldn’t stop crying. After that, I had to look up the lyrics and even though …
Bog-bodies? Or bog-zombies?
So, I’m reading up on ‘bog bodies’, which are basically Northern European folks from the Bronze & early Iron age. Due to specific features in bogs (highly acidic, low oxygen, …
Thematic Resonance in Civilizational Superstructure
The human story, at its base, holds a fairly simple framework. An ape-ancestor, both a puzzle-solver and obsessed with time, stumbles over persistence hunting and ends up inventing both a …
The Reality of Being “Human”
Every culture on the planet has an origin story, a way they describe how things came from not-being to being. In this, they often have a mythic narrative that also …
A little family history
I am the son of Pol ap Finnis of the western shores. I serve at the feet of the mad Dreamer poet, the trickster who here is a Doctor and …
Are ya STOOPID or just DEAF?!
When Facebook decides that “Dakota Access Pipeline Facts” is appropriate for your feed, and then posts this– THE SOURCE OF WATER FOR THE STANDING ROCK SIOUX IS NOT NEAR THE …
On the nature of power
Government works by -you- investing your time and energy in it. That can be done indirectly, by you giving something like your money to it or directly through your labor …
Tale as Old as Time
To my gaming / gamer friends: Play’s as old as the human race, likely far older. And pretty much forever, it has been about preparing youth for what’s to come …
In Blackest Night
It is the province and the responsibility of artists, in times of despair and darkness to shine a light on dark corners, and, often enough to be the light. Take …