my time with one face of the fixed star Deneb Algedi.

"God forbid I put it down after I pick it up."

God doesn't forbid. You can.

”What’s your favorite book? How bout' the one I’m living”

every spoke on the wheel of the crossroads leads to the center, where we meet round the fire.

When I ask, "what do I need on my spiritual journey to feel supported?" I return again and again to the idea of a cadre.

A cadre: surrounded by support.

The web that holds me.

But like many elegant concepts, close inspection makes the whole house of cards fall down. If the stars and planets are acting on us, then how can the tropical Zodiac work? The signs that make it up are now quite distant from the physical stars that share their name due to axial precession.

Brain geniuses in the 1920s were sick of the Yellowstone wolves coming for their cattle. “The problem is the wolves. So we remove the wolves. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.” No. Difficult difficult lemon difficult.