Tag: Food

  • How Do We Stock Our Metaphoric Pantry?

    How Do We Stock Our Metaphoric Pantry?

    Last year on Lughnasad I was all worked up over food. Riffling through some old files yesterday I discovered this entry: I’m not sure there’s a way to talk about the “First Harvest” without paying mind to the fact that there is a severe drought across the land, or that in other parts of the […]

  • The Lactating Ewes of Imbolc

    I don’t know much about cows. Or sheep.   I know that cows tip (not from personal experience, though). I know that sheep are cute, and I love their hair. I was just working with some last night. I also, on occasion, like to eat a bit of both. I’m a city boy, born and bred. I […]

  • Stock The Pantry and Tend The Dirt

    We tell stories about Old Gods who governed over the fields, but we rarely step foot in the fields ourselves. In some ways, it would be more appropriate for us to worship gods who govern the produce aisle, or the food processing plants, or the deities of the drive through.