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Throughout the ages Of Iron, Bronze, and Stone We marveled at the night sky And what may lie beyond. We burned offerings To the Elemental Ones, Made sacrifices For beauty, peace, and love. We are the children of the sun. Children Of The Sun Dead Can Dance, 2012 From the mountains of South America, to the steppes of central Asia, to the islands of the Pacific, to the forests of Africa, to the plains of North America. In every place in the world where humans have ever settled o

By Steve Six weeks ago, we honored the passing of the winter, and joined in happy celebration of surviving another season of darkness, enduring to begin a new year together. And, what only the very youngest and most innocent did not know was that soon enough, the time of pure celebration would pass as well, and the turning of the Wheel would bring us once again to the threshold of duty. For how is it that we endured this year, if not the success of the harvest of last year? A

By Steve A gentle, mild warmth beams through the trees to a land blanketed in bright green grass. Birds sing all throughout the forest amid the fragrance of new blooms. Indoors, the fire burns in the hearth, as it has for months, but nobody is huddled around it. They cannot remember the last time they feared the ice, the cold, the emptiness of the frozen land. The daydreams through Winter have now become the reality of this day... It is a new Spring. Ancient peoples who under