Gentle stretch
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.”
Read More...The Aurora Tree
Watching
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.
Deep water
Flower petals in the bath
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.
In the sea
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.
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.”
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
Horned
❝Give her at least two orgasms for every one of mine.❞— NeoWayland, Rules of Three
Sometimes the morning is too early
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
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.”
Looks like a shining temple
“This planet is our home. Our life and hers are interdependent.”
Pray
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.
Very blonde
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.
Napping
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.
Let freedom ring.
Facing the fire
❝Words matter. Actions matter more. Intentions don’t.❞— NeoWayland, Rules of Three, see also Would you know?
At the door
❝Honor expects three warnings before you act.❞— NeoWayland, Rules of Three
Just having fun
❝Test it thrice.❞— NeoWayland, Rules of Three
Goofy tongue
Quiet soak
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.
Overhead river
Freckles
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.
Autumn
“Ritual, provided it uses authentic symbols, is no more or less than what H.P. Blavatsky called 'concretized truth'.”
Redhead with a stick
“Sex is nice and pleasure is good for you.”
Samhain tree
Great owl in flight
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.”
Read More...Double moon
Remember Granpa's old Royal
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..
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."
Read More...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.❞Read More...
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.”
Read More...“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.”
Read More...Broom Ritual
Handprints
I never really have understood the whole cultural appropriation bit. Syncretism happens.
Read More...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.❞
Looking
The combination of the lady's expression and her pose sell the shot. The tattoos don't hurt either.
Read More...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.
Read More...Sleeping in the sunlight
Godmask
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.
Spear
“May the Gods always stand between you and harm in all the empty places you must walk.”
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.”
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.”Read More...— Kenneth Goze, comments from Column: the Mainstreaming of Pride
The river knows
“Nothing supernatural exists.”probably inspired by a Star Trek filmThat smile
Monday, 16Jul2018  Filed in: GalleryI 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.
Beads
Monday, 02Jul2018  Filed in: Gallery❝I don't think our worship belongs enshrined in some fantasy setting.❞— NeoWayland, Bringing it homeI love a lady with a guitar
Monday, 02Jul2018  Filed in: GalleryFairytale path
Wednesday, 06Jun2018  Filed in: GalleryShiprock
Wednesday, 30May2018  Filed in: GalleryThe first couple of dozen times a nude, pretty woman is presenting herself, it's artistic.
Read More...Another swimming hole
Monday, 28May2018  Filed in: Gallery“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.”Bubbles
Monday, 21May2018  Filed in: GalleryYes, 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.
Shower
Monday, 14May2018  Filed in: Gallery“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.”
Read More...Shaft of sunlight
Monday, 16Apr2018  Filed in: Gallery“Hope for the best, prepare for the worst and meanwhile, do everything you can to make things better.”Who's a good boy?
Monday, 26Mar2018  Filed in: GalleryThey want to know why they should even consider your faith when their faith is absolutest.
Read More...Lady in violet
Wednesday, 21Mar2018  Filed in: GallerySome mornings it's too much to bear
Sunday, 18Mar2018  Filed in: GallerySleeping
Monday, 19Mar2018  Filed in: Gallery“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.”Tunnel of trees
Wednesday, 14Mar2018  Filed in: GalleryDance
Monday, 12Mar2018  Filed in: Gallery❝Sometimes, the heirs of dreams do better than the heirs of blood and bone.❞Wet
Monday, 05Mar2018  Filed in: Gallery“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.”Read More...
— Harry BrowneYoung couples
Monday, 05Feb2018  Filed in: GallerySometimes humans are silly
Thursday, 18Jan2018  Filed in: Gallerydiv class="blentry">Just a picture to brighten your day
“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.”
“Moon rise coinciding with sunrise at St. Mary's Lake - Glacier National Park”
“Thor's Well on the Oregon coast”
“Arches National Park, Utah”
“Majestic Monument Valley”
“If that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find without.”
“Reflections in snowy Sedona, Arizona”
These older blog entries have been reformatted and entered into the current directories
Read More...“Tide pools at low tide after sunset”
“Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.”
“Eternal winter twilight - Norway”
Guitar
“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.”Read More...
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.Read More...
As loudly and as enthusiastically as we can.”
Snack bar
Hippies? Not quite…
“Pagans aren't people of the book, we're people of the library.”— Steve Posch
Kissed by the sun
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.
Inside a tree
Raven pendant
“I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.”— Julian Clary
What about you?
Lady with torches
“Milky Way over the Mojave Desert”
Notice how the emphasis on bulk lines hints strongly at both motion and emotion.
Read More...Red Gaea
The air is still humid from last night's never-storm. No rain, but plenty of lightning and thunder around midnight.
Read More...The hat sells it
Daylight ring dance
From the hairstyle of the brunette lady on the right, I'm guessing that it happened in the late 1960s.
Read More...Old Man of Storr
❝Everything is connected. Nobody sees all the connections. There's always stuff you don't know.❞
— NeoWayland
In the forest
I was coming off a long time of being militantly solitary and I relished the fellowship I finally allowed myself.
Read More...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
Softly, gently
“Allowing harm to continue unchecked is not 'harming none'. Rather, it harms everyone.”— Doreen Valiente
Proud
“Film Review: Eugene Brave Rock Speaks Blackfoot to Wonder Woman in DC’s Best Film Ever”
Read More...With friends
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
Nearly a cauldron
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.
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
Fire dance
Poetry in the bath
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
In the garden
Vintage archery
Casual friends
Nude by the statues
“The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.”— D. H. Lawrence
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.
Northern lights
Another Sheela na gig
This is not the Earth Day I celebrate.
My entry on Earth Day and politics.
Naked ritual
Margot Adler • Before birthday
Lived 16Apr1946 to 28July2014 (68)
American author, journalist, lecturer, Wiccan priestess and radio journalist
“A foggy Irish forest.”
Morning canvas
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
Just a glimpse
Another tree of life
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
Inspiring space
“Sex is one of the nine reasons for incarnation. The other eight are unimportant.”— George Burns
Lady Liberty
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
He stands there curious
Train
So it's with shorter hair and hot chocolate that I anticipate this High Holiday.
Read More...Handsome fellow
Asperitas
“There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.”— Lord Byron