Chas S. Clifton

The Last Bobcat Where Nature Meets Culture—Plus Wildfire, Dogs, Environmental News, and Writing with a Southern Rockies Perspective.

One of my volunteer gigs is hauling (sometimes capturing) injured raptors for the Raptor Center, collecting orphan fawns & other critters for rehabbers, and sometimes releasing them in the wild. Yesterday's run was especially bittersweet: www.southernrockiesnatureblog.com/2025/11/the-...

Is this another example of the journalistic stance that everything fun is somehow racist?

I have no idea. They never email me.

I think the first Holmes story that I read was "The Red-Headed League." Did they televise that one? Not as scary as "The Hound."

True, the mindful part. And I see that (on that site) my daily-driver Pelikan is now $175 or so.

OK. I did not realize that British troops were involved in that area, thought it was purely Italian. But I see now that they were sent in even before the Italian collapse at Caporetto. Interesting.

In Italy? They were part of the Allies in World War One.

Thunder Perfect Mind A magazine for the Great Mother

I pledged to this one: www.kickstarter.com/projects/thu...

Wow, but I looked at the price. That's out of my "You might leave it on Amtrak" bracket.

The English writer Michael Harrison started that "vaginal application" story in the 1960s. It was purely his fantasy, as far as I can tell.

I thought that the fees were fairly high.

"Ritual, Personhood and the New Animism: Essays in Honour of Graham Harvey" is a new collection honoring a major scholar of animism. A must-buy. equinoxpub.com/projects/rit...

This is AI fakery. I want a genuine 11th-century aerial photograph.

If a park ranger at Yellowstone tells you not to step off the boardwalk at the geyser basin, is s/he "acting like a policeman" or keeping you from being cooked alive? I taught 100-400 level writing classes for years -- I get the "find your voice" rhetoric -- but you have to do the work yourself.

The return of the strong gods? | Francis Young | The Critic Magazine In the fifth century AD, as the last of Rome’s old patrician families fought a losing battle for the continuance of pagan rites in the face of the rise of Christianity, they claimed that abandoning…

I wrote about the rise of paganism in Latvia: thecritic.co.uk/the-return-o...

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Photo of three Amanita muscaria mushrooms.

‪Chas S. Clifton‬
It's funny how Amanita muscaria has gone from scary to therapeutic. I saw the needle start to swing in the late 1990s, and now if you're not using it, are you really fungi-maxing? Links to upcoming online conference below & in comment.https://www.facebook.com/amanitaonlinecongress

Historic First: Legal Hellenic Polytheist Marriage Ceremony Held in Cyprus — A Milestone for Mediterranean Paganism - Europe, Paganism, Religion, The Wild Hunt, World Witchcraft & Pagan News - A historic first: a couple married at the Temple of Zeus in Cyprus in a Hellenic polytheist ceremony—the first of its kind legally recognized in Greece—marking a powerful ste...

A historic first: a couple married at the Temple of Zeus in Cyprus in a Hellenic polytheist ceremony—the first of its kind legally recognized in Greece—marking a powerful step toward restoring ancestral faith and identity across the Mediterranean.

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Might be worth grabbing. I need to read it and find out.

You might consider placing inverted commas around "wrote."

Honest, I never worried about that, leaving rebuttal to scholars such as Mark Williams. (This book is about Ireland, but he knows his Old Welsh.) www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv...

But back when I thought I was a poet and sought a spiritual path with room for such things in it, Ch. 1 made me a Pagan.

Only the first chapter really matters. The rest is RG setting puzzles for himself and trying to solve them.

What does this do to enrollment in the concrete-industry management program? Will there be enough majors to keep it alive?

A Heathen Marine Vet Overcomes PTSD with Psilocybin A recent episode of the Dale Stark Show, hosted by a former A-10 “Warthog” pilot turned regenerative cattle rancher and podcaster, focuses on the work of Clay Martin in using psilocybin…

A former Marine scout-sniper and now Heathen priest discusses his "ministry" of using psilocybin to treat vets with PTSD w/ insights on how US Religious freedom has evolved. There's a lot of getting-to-know-you chat up front; the second half is more interesting.
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One issue is that Wiccan circles do not scale-up well. Get more than 20 people, and the energy tends to be "floppy." So it's necessary to change gears, focus more on processions and theatrical offerings, maybe.

YouTube video by That 90's Witch Sabina Magliocco on That 90's Witch

"What happens when a folklorist and anthropologist turns her academic skills on the Pagan community of San Francisco in the 90's and early 2000's? An epic book called Witching Culture gets written!" youtu.be/MrcLcnLdkU0?...

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I feel seen.

Some people water their oyster clusters for that reason.