Lùnastal, Midseason Holiday
Here’s a story, painted with the points provided by my family’s ancestors. Do you want to know about Lùnastal? (also known as Lammas or Lughnasadh) Look it up and they’ll …
Tag: history
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 …
A Day in the Life of Midgard
I’m in one of those thoughtful moods this morning. Loki, son and heir to the line of Ymir, first power in the universe and the substance, was known as 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 …
On a Cycle That Needs to be Broken
So I have to be brutal for a moment. We live in an abusive society. I’m sure a boatload of folks will stop reading right after that but bear with …
A Helping Hand?
What I laid out for the attendees was the foundation of a conversation: that the U.S., by its own admission, is in active occupation of 500 – 1000 sovereign nations in the continental U.S. and that the Los Angeles tribes (who are very much alive and still culturally active and yes, there’s even a tribal government) never had a ratified treaty. If you live in L.A., you’re squatting on their land.
The Professional and the Battle for Art
About a week back (more or less), I was witness to one of those curious interchanges that occasionally leapfrogs its way across social media. This one was about art. Insults …
New Short Story: “The Red Gift”
Some people spend New Years Eve alone, some with family, some in celebration with a bunch of raucous strangers. Peregrine Dunn tends to spend his time in an upscale whiskey bar. In a version of L.A. where angels actually do come down to visit on Solstice, this is probably a wise thing.