Author: Geoffrey Dice
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The Door Remembers
Manitoba, Age Verification, and the Witness at the Threshold Part I of the series The Age Gate and the Minotaur A child opens a phone and stands before a door no adult can honestly call harmless. The screen is not only a screen. It is a door: to friendship, to shame, to sex education that…
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What Is A Profane Song?
A profane thing is not only a blasphemous thing. It is not only a vulgar thing, a dirty thing, a joke told too loudly beside the altar, a prayer with mud on its boots. But it is not less than those things either. A profane thing is also a thing left outside the temple doors.…
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Ēadiġ is Dæġ
A Pagan Spring Hymn for Ēostre and Ing Frēa Ēadiġ is Dæġ is a modern Old English devotional refrain meaning “Blessed is [the] day.” This spring hymn celebrates the return of light, warmth, and greening life after winter, drawing on Old English language, seasonal devotion, and a pagan sense of sacred renewal. The hymn may…
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A Myth of Spring
In another time, in the age of wonder, before stories became histories and before mysteries became laws, the Green Mother brought forth a child beloved by leaf, root, river, and hidden road. She was called the Daughter of the Meadow, for wherever she walked, the sleeping world stirred toward colour. Some knew the Green Mother…