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Occasionally I wandered in where I was not wanted and gave truthful answers.
Sometimes I even did it deliberately. A little disruption now can prevent disaster later.

Gentle stretch

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
— W.B. Yeats
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Snow on red rock

“In which John Green teaches you about the Indus Valley Civilization, one of the largest of the ancient civilizations. John teaches you the who, how, when, where and why of the Indus Valley Civilization, and dispenses advice on how to be more successful in your romantic relationships.”

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The Aurora Tree

I found this one on the Space reddit. I love how the photographer lined up the aurora borealis with the tree to make a magical image. Click on the picture to go to the original post.

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Watching

She's on rock near a mountain lake. I don't know anything else.

I wonder what she's looking at.

I’m a naturist in both senses of the word. Life doesn’t always need clothes. I admire the human body. I hope you can too.

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Deep water

Blog rolls and other creatures

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Flower petals in the bath

The armband caught my eye. But the flower petals and the red hair helped.

I’m a naturist in both senses of the word. Life doesn’t always need clothes. I admire the human body. I hope you can too.

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In the sea

Group skinny dipping. Just some folks having fun.

I’m a naturist in both senses of the word. Life doesn’t always need clothes. I admire the human body. I hope you can too.

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Still-life with wine

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Under the bark

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A magical morning

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
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Wading

Start cunnilingus with three to the left, two to the right, one to the left, three to the right, two to the left, and then one to the right.
— NeoWayland, Rules of Three
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Horned

Give her at least two orgasms for every one of mine.
— NeoWayland, Rules of Three
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Sometimes the morning is too early

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Built by Nature

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
— John Muir
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Looks like a shining temple

This planet is our home. Our life and hers are interdependent.
— Doreen Valiente
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Pray

Technically not nude, but close. Not sure of the date on this one. By the hairstyle I'd guess pre-WWII. It looks to me like she is gathering and preparing herself.

I’m a naturist in both senses of the word. Life doesn’t always need clothes. I admire the human body. I hope you can too.

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Very blonde

Her hair caught my attention. Not just the color, but the way it moves. Very blonde is the best description I can come up with.

I’m a naturist in both senses of the word. Life doesn’t always need clothes. I admire the human body. I hope you can too.

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Napping

The other day I was rightly criticized for not having anything but mostly young nubile females in my nude pictures. So here is a larger and older lady. You can tell she's a witch by her pendant. And since she's sleeping, she qualifies as a casual nude.

I’m a naturist in both senses of the word. Life doesn’t always need clothes. I admire the human body. I hope you can too.

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Halfway there

Literally the road between.

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Let freedom ring.

Lady Liberty and Lady Moon.

Let freedom ring.

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Facing the fire

Words matter. Actions matter more. Intentions don’t.
— NeoWayland, Rules of Three, see also Would you know?
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At the door

Honor expects three warnings before you act.
— NeoWayland, Rules of Three
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Just having fun

Test it thrice.
— NeoWayland, Rules of Three
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Goofy tongue

Change your perspective.
— NeoWayland, WebTree
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Quiet soak

Nudity and water go hand in hand. Why we ever started with swimsuits I'll never know.

This one looks vintage but I am pretty sure it's posed. For one thing that expression is unusual in pictures before about 1970 or so.That reflection is gorgeous.

I’m a naturist in both senses of the word. Life doesn’t always need clothes. I admire the human body. I hope you can too.

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Overhead river

It borders on objectification since it doesn't show her face.

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Freckles

Posed, but I like her expression and her freckles. The lady is alluring.

I’m a naturist in both senses of the word. Life doesn’t always need clothes. I admire the human body. I hope you can too.

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Autumn

Ritual, provided it uses authentic symbols, is no more or less than what H.P. Blavatsky called 'concretized truth'.
— Stephan A. Hoeller, from "The Gnosis of the Eucharist," Gnosis № 11, Spring 1989
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Redhead with a stick

Sex is nice and pleasure is good for you.
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Samhain tree

Gotta love that sky!

The original poster at the EarthPorn reddit called this an evil looking tree. I don't think it is, I think it just needs appreciation.

So here it is, a tree that looks like it should be marking the gate between the worlds.

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Great owl in flight

The guy has muscle tone that makes other guys envious.

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Proud man

“This week on Crash Course Mythology, we're getting urban. Mike Rugnetta is the man with the orange umbrella who's about to give you a free tour of mythical cities. We'll talk about a few cities that didn't exist, but we're going to focus on real cities with mythical founding stories. We'll talk about Jericho, Jerusalem, and Rome, among others.”

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Double moon

I've spent weeks researching, writing, and rewriting.

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The rinse

Sometimes we forget that language isn't reality

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Remember Granpa's old Royal

My biological father left my mother before my first birthday. Mom has mentioned his mother, but I've never heard her mention his father. I've never asked.

About a month after my second birthday, Mom married the only man I would call Father. And later, much later, Dad. I was very precocious. A father was a big thing to me and I didn't have one. So I called him Father. It took me years to adjust. It took him years to accept that I was trying to honor him.

Along with Dad, I got three step-sibs, an uncle, some aunts, and another grandfather. Paternal step grandfather. Grandad.

Granpa.

I already had Grandpa and Grandma on my mother's side. But I saw them often. My new Granpa lived in Arkansas. That's a fair distance from Arizona. So I didn't see him as often.

Granpa was a letter writer. He had a well-used old Royal and he would write letters all the time. Getting a letter from him was special. It just felt wonderful. Every time I got one I could just picture him at his typewriter hunting and pecking out the letters.

So of course when it came time to design my sites, I wanted a typewriter font. American Typewriter was my first choice, but the licensing is a little much. Courier worked but not as well. So I used Special Elite from Google Fonts.

I really wanted to use it in my lexicon, but it doesn't play well with other fonts. So I use Courier for the lexicon.

But the quotes from me, the NeoNotes, and now the Taproots entries, all those use Special Elite.

It helps me remember Granpa when I read those. And I want to pass those good feelings on to you..

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Standing in driftwood

Long story short, without monotheism, the meaning of good and evil aren't so clear cut. It tends to be more in the nature of "this HELPS my tribe/city/nation" and "this HURTS my tribe/city/nation." It becomes relative and based on cost/benefit. It depends more on individual judgement and less on an Official List of "THOU SHALT NOTS."

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The lady inside

Lately sex has also been one thing that drags politics into paganism. Politics corrupts, and I've no desire to see my faith or sex reduced to politics.
— NeoWayland
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Ocean swimming

“This week, Mike Rugnetta is teaching you about mythical gardens and caves, which appear in cultures all over the world. Caves and gardens can stand for different things, but in the two stories we're talking about today, they tie into the creation of the world in general, and the origins of humans in particular.”

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“Look up”

I'm pretty sure it's a initiation ritual.

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“Skyclad for Samhain in the graveyard.”

“In which Mike Rugnetta teaches you about Ma'ui, prominent hero of many cultures in Oceania, aka the Pacific Island nations. Ma'ui is just the kind of hero we're interested in here at Crash Course. He's a culture hero, he's a an adventurer, he has a divine birth, AND he's a trickster. In short, he's pretty cool, and the tasks he accomplishes in his life are great examples of how human stories can touch on universal themes.”

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Broom Ritual

I stumbled across this and thought you might like it.

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Dreamlike

The green guy just sets it off.

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Handprints

I never really have understood the whole cultural appropriation bit. Syncretism happens.

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Curvy


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In a field

The only reason I started writing about pagans and sex is because there is a strong movement to lock all that away where Respectable People Will Not Talk About the Embarrassing Stuff.
— NeoWayland
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Looking

The combination of the lady's expression and her pose sell the shot. The tattoos don't hurt either.

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Yoga

I can't even laugh at the irony anymore. These are the seeds that will destroy paganism in a way that monotheisms never could.

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Sleeping in the sunlight

Due to events of the last couple of weeks, I have rewritten my sex and sex rules lexicon entries.

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Waterfall

Sharing a shower is always fun.

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Godmask

I'm pretty sure this lady is channelling a god.

I’m a naturist in both senses of the word. Life doesn’t always need clothes. I admire the human body. I hope you can too.

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Spear

May the Gods always stand between you and harm in all the empty places you must walk.
— anonymous Wiccan prayer
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Worship

If a bible is left outside in the sun and rain it will eventually fade and decompose. A pagan's bible IS the sun and rain.
— anonymous
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Standing at the river

Far more erasure is happening at the hands of our own people than the old Christian fundamentalist crowd could ever hope to do.
— Kenneth Goze, comments from Column: the Mainstreaming of Pride
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The river knows

Nothing supernatural exists.
— J.H.
probably inspired by a Star Trek film
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That smile

I do not usually do carnal pictures. TPY is not a porn site.

But lovers are certainly everyday nudity. The smile does more to sell this.

And yes, I know it's posed. It still delivers.

I’m a naturist in both senses of the word. Life doesn’t always need clothes. I admire the human body. I hope you can too.

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Beads

I don't think our worship belongs enshrined in some fantasy setting.
— NeoWayland, Bringing it home
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I love a lady with a guitar

Could this have been from a themed retreat?

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Fairytale path

She's enjoying the flowers.

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A walk

I have a bunch of pictures that I want to start using on this site.

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Shiprock

The first couple of dozen times a nude, pretty woman is presenting herself, it's artistic.

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Another swimming hole

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
— John Lubbock
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Out of the fog

This is a great example of ALMOST showing you something.

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Bubbles

Yes, it's probably posed. What can I say? I'm a sucker for a pretty lady. I'm also a sucker for the outdoors and blowing bubbles.

This is a great example of ALMOST showing you something. You know she's nude but you don't actually see anything questionable.

I’m a naturist in both senses of the word. Life doesn’t always need clothes. I admire the human body. I hope you can too.

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Shower

“This week, we're headed north. To check out the gods of the Northmen. Or the Norse. That's right, we're talking Thor, Loki, Freyr, Freya, Odin, Frigg, Baldr, and Tyr. And Fenrir. And the Frost Giants. There's a lot to cover here, and it's going to be fun. Watch this prior to Ragnarok, as this video probably won't be available after the end of the universe.”

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Shaft of sunlight

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst and meanwhile, do everything you can to make things better.
— Jim O'Neil
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Who's a good boy?

Thinking by blogging

They want to know why they should even consider your faith when their faith is absolutest.

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Lady in violet

This dryad is an excellent symbol of spring.

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Some mornings it's too much to bear

Notice how the mythological elements are barely there

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Sleeping

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
— Abigail Van Buren
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Tunnel of trees

The leaping dance and the look on her face make it perfect.

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Dance

Sometimes, the heirs of dreams do better than the heirs of blood and bone.
— NeoWayland
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Wet

Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
     — Harry Browne
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Elf touched

This is a work of art.

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Seaside

Thinking by blogging

It's snowing right now.

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Young couples

Many think they want fun when they want a relationship.

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Sometimes humans are silly

div class="blentry">Just a picture to brighten your day

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“The sunset lighting up the side of this cliff in Iceland”

Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.
— Nora Roberts
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“Moon rise coinciding with sunrise at St. Mary's Lake - Glacier National Park”

You have to enjoy the peanut butter sandwiches. You never know where your next one is coming from.
     — from the private journal of NeoWayland, 14Jan2013
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“Thor's Well on the Oregon coast”

Thinking by blogging
I'm not allowed to share her story while she still lives, but my mother was amazing.
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“Arches National Park, Utah”

Corrected web address

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“Majestic Monument Valley”

If that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find without.
— Doreen Valiente
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“Reflections in snowy Sedona, Arizona”

These older blog entries have been reformatted and entered into the current directories

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“Tide pools at low tide after sunset”

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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“Eternal winter twilight - Norway”

Yep, that's the Grand Canyon.

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Guitar

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
— John Muir
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Reader

I am certainly against Nazism, supremacist groups, and misogyny. I just think they SHOULD be heard, if for no other reason than they can be laughed off the stage.

As loudly and as enthusiastically as we can.”
— NeoWayland
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Snack bar

If you look hard enough for a given pattern, you'll almost always find it somewhere. The "Law of Fives" isn't about the structure of the universe, it's about your perception of the structure of the universe.
     — NeoWayland
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Hippies? Not quite…

Pagans aren't people of the book, we're people of the library.
— Steve Posch
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Kissed by the sun

The blue sets this lady's skin tone off so very well. The ankle bracelets help too.

I'd say she's a child of the sun.

I’m a naturist in both senses of the word. Life doesn’t always need clothes. I admire the human body. I hope you can too.

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Inside a tree

Nobody ever got smart reading just one book.
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Raven pendant

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.
— Julian Clary
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On the road

Don't laugh…

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What about you?

I love pictures of Lady Liberty.

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Lady with torches

I love good space pictures.

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“Milky Way over the Mojave Desert”

Notice how the emphasis on bulk lines hints strongly at both motion and emotion.

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Riverbed

Growing up in the desert, you appreciate a good rain.

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Staged

Messy, very sexy, and Female.

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Red Gaea

The air is still humid from last night's never-storm. No rain, but plenty of lightning and thunder around midnight.

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The hat sells it

The rock formation caught my eye.

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Daylight ring dance

From the hairstyle of the brunette lady on the right, I'm guessing that it happened in the late 1960s.

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Old Man of Storr

Everything is connected. Nobody sees all the connections. There's always stuff you don't know.
     — NeoWayland
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Casually

It's not overwhelming, it just seems like it.

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In the forest

I was coming off a long time of being militantly solitary and I relished the fellowship I finally allowed myself.

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Gather

“All Women are Goddess and deserve to be Cherished, unless they prove otherwise.”
— NeoWayland
All Men are God and deserve to be Adored, unless they prove otherwise.
— Juliaki
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Softly, gently

Allowing harm to continue unchecked is not 'harming none'. Rather, it harms everyone.
— Doreen Valiente
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Proud

“Film Review: Eugene Brave Rock Speaks Blackfoot to Wonder Woman in DC’s Best Film Ever”

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With friends

Thinking by blogging

I love watching ladies sunbathing in the summer. It's purely sexual.

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Just pooling around

Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.
— C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
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Nearly a cauldron

Okay, so it's not exactly pagan and it's very nearly pornographic, but I really liked the image. I can almost picture a cauldron there.

Can't you?

Unless it's actually part of a ritual, I try to avoid carnal photographs at TPY. This isn't a porn site. I'm a pagan who believes in every day nudity.

I’m a naturist in both senses of the word. Life doesn’t always need clothes. I admire the human body. I hope you can too.


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Picnic

Lotan often used the southwestern desert and Arizona in particular.

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Fire's warmth

But we are the Blessed, the God-touched, the ones who walk between the worlds. I honor my Gods as Elder Relatives, not as saviors or rulers of my soul. It's the difference between fear and love.
— NeoWayland, Of gods and men
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Fire dance

Eakins explored nudes in much of his work.

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Poetry in the bath

Just look at those amazing clouds.

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Swimming

I made a tiny piece of the planet something that it wasn't before.

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An amazing place that proves Divinity

However heroic the virtues of the saint may be, the scoundrel has a bit of the hero in him too.
— Richard Smoley from “Choose Your Saints Wisely”, Gnosis № 24, Summer 1992
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In the garden

I'm guessing that this is 1930s European…

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Vintage archery

I wonder what she's thinking.

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Casual friends

Despite the rumors, the Great Rite doesn't happen all that often.

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Nude by the statues

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
— D. H. Lawrence
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A selection of bolines




Bolines can be fancy, but I think they sum up what can be wrong with today's paganism. It's about the flair rather than the practicallity.

This pocket knife is very similar to the one I carry. It's simple, inexpensive, and doubles as an athamé and a boline. It blends in and raises no questions. I can carry it easily in my pocket as I hike or tramp.

You don't always have to work with the fancy stuff. The best symbol of a thing is the thing.













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Northern lights

This particular photo was taken on the customary Earth Day at Valdez, Alaska.

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Another Sheela na gig

This is not the Earth Day I celebrate.

My entry on
Earth Day and politics.

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Smile

I need to be aware of them, but I don't need to track them in detail.

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Naked ritual

Margot Adler • Before birthday

Lived 16Apr1946 to 28July2014 (68)
American author, journalist, lecturer, Wiccan priestess and radio journalist

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“A foggy Irish forest.”

It's as if many American pagans pretend that the roots don't exist.

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Morning canvas

We pagans have become the worst that we saw in the People of the Book.

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Nude Skull

Our energy fields often look like mosaics of pieces from family, friends, co-workers, people seen on TV, or even random strangers encountered on the street.
— Rebecca Wilson from “The Art of Psychic Healing”, Gnosis № 34, Winter 1995
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Just a glimpse

Very intriguing design

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Another tree of life

I really love pictures of the Moon

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Earthrise

May the nourishment of the earth be yours,
May the clarity of light be yours,
May the fluency of the ocean be yours,
May the protection of the ancestors be yours.
— anonymous
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Overlook

Outdoor ritual area

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Inspiring space

Sex is one of the nine reasons for incarnation. The other eight are unimportant.
— George Burns
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Just plain fun

She keeps the Great Secret

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Hidden but still grand

The Pagan Vigil Reader is my new aggregator

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Lady Liberty

Plus he’s having way too much fun.

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Speculate this

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
— John Muir
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He stands there curious

I identify with bears

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Train

So it's with shorter hair and hot chocolate that I anticipate this High Holiday.

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Handsome fellow

Elections bring out some very idiotic behavior

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Asperitas

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
— Lord Byron
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“Knife?”

Notice the relationships

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Gallery

I think it’s time to go the the Kaibab

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