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Lovers of the Land: Living with Ecological Grief Part 2
A look at the way we think about our relationship with the land, and how reconsidering this relationship might be helpful.
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Feb 14 min read
When Nature is a Mother: The Sacred Mile Project
We forget, in all our idealizing of Mother Nature, that mothers can - sometimes, must - be fierce.
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Michelle
Jan 14 min read
Every Mile is a Sacred Mile (Sacred Mile Project, Week 1)
Welcome to week one of the Sacred Mile Project. If you don’t know what The Sacred Mile Project IS, you can read the introductory post....
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Michelle
Dec 28, 20239 min read
Introducing the Sacred Mile Project
Join me in a project to get closer to the land you call home.
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Michelle
Sep 25, 202314 min read
Wallowing and Worshiping: Living with Ecological Grief, Part 1
This series of posts is an expansion on an article I wrote for Hagstone Publishing’s Stone, Root, and Bone . Some portions of the posts...
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Michelle
May 18, 20233 min read
Wonderful Weirdos: Meeting the Leopard Slug
I’ve had a brutal cold for a week now, gone through an entire box of tissue and spent way more time in bed than I like (and I like a LOT...
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Michelle
Nov 27, 20225 min read
But Do You Love Them? Polytheism and Sacred Animals
Crows seem to be very popular in the pagan and polytheist world right now, simultaneously serving as sacred companions to many ancient...
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Michelle
Nov 25, 20223 min read
Writing About Plants: Bloom Times
A common mistake many authors make when writing about plants has to do with when they bloom. I've seen Queen Anne's lace described as an...
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Michelle
Nov 4, 20223 min read
Meeting Rosemary: The Plant Spirit Ally Challenge
I have to admit I was underwhelmed the first time I met rosemary. Maybe because I met them at a plant nursery, and the only rosemary...
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Michelle
Nov 2, 20224 min read
Meeting Western Red Cedar: The Plant Spirit Ally Challenge
As many of you know by now, I’m going through the Plant Spirit Ally Challenge in a slightly different way than the first time. I plan to...
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Michelle
Oct 15, 20224 min read
Five Tips on Writing About Plants
If this post looks familiar, it should! It appeared on the Hagstone Publishing website a few years ago in a slightly different form. Many...
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Michelle
Oct 9, 20223 min read
Do You Have a Plant Ally? The Plant Spirit Ally Challenge is Coming Back
I used to have a little publishing company called Hagstone Publishing, and back in May of 2019, Hagstone ran a 30 day Plant Spirit Ally...
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Michelle
Oct 5, 20224 min read
It's Enough to be Invited In: Animism, Agency, and Expectation
It’s just a little pocket of a park, tucked between some houses and a middle school, kind of hard to find unless you spot it on a map and...
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Michelle
Nov 18, 20217 min read
Unequal Exchange: Reciprocity and the Land
Over the past three years I’ve been courting the spirits of the wetland park near my home. This park is one of the most betwixt and...
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Michelle
Jul 8, 20194 min read
Do You Know Dandelion?
I’ve been reading - and talking - a lot about plant blindness lately, and how sad it is how many adults can’t even identify more than...
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Michelle
May 16, 20192 min read
In the Garden: Flower Season
There have been so many changes since my Good Bones post back in March! And flower season has begun in earnest. The lilacs at the end of...
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Michelle
Apr 18, 20192 min read
In the Garden: Dandelion Season
Dandelion season is here! And this means while other gardeners are shaking their heads and reaching for their herbicides, I'm outside...
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Michelle
Apr 4, 20194 min read
You Breathe Out, She Breathes In: A Plant Meditation
Learning to communicate and make magic with plants doesn't have to be a difficult or complicated process. Many plants are eager to form...
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Michelle
Mar 21, 20193 min read
The Beauty of Elemental Thinking
Elemental correspondences are some of the first topics covered in most introductory pagan texts. I love the elemental system: it's a...
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Michelle
Oct 19, 20181 min read
Friday Flora, Foggy Flora
We're finally settling into our new home, and life is beginning to assume a steadier rhythm after two whirlwind months. This morning I...
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Michelle Simkins
polytheist . writer . maker . witch
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