{"id":12189,"date":"2021-04-13T20:03:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T02:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12189"},"modified":"2021-04-13T20:03:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T02:03:34","slug":"this-sounds-like-a-druidic-homily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12189","title":{"rendered":"This Sounds like a Druidic Homily"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lilac bud. (Pueblo Nature and Wildlife Discovery Center)<\/p><\/div>\n

I was reading the online version of the Pueblo <\/em>(Colorado) Chieftain <\/em>this afternoon and happened onto this article provided by the Pueblo Nature and Wildlife Discovery Cente<\/a>r, formerly known more prosaically as Pueblo Mountain Park: “Nature’s Classroom: Imbolg, Time of Germination<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

The park has a long and interesting history. I have mentioned it before in connection with its Yule Log tradition.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Yule log celebration is\u00a0 Pagan-ish for sure. So is this Imbolg column. You could have told me that I was reading one of John Beckett’s Druidic homilies,<\/a> and I would have believed you.<\/p>\n

Homily: a short commentary on a sacred topic \u2014 something less formal than a sermon.<\/em><\/p>\n

Especially when the writer moves from observing nature “out there” to personal transformation.<\/p>\n

Again, the trees are giving us an ample lesson and functional metaphor for our own new growth and blossoming. Perhaps you are working to lose weight, or to strengthen underused muscles, or to heal some aspect of your body or psyche. These things take time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It sounds to me like creeping Paganism. Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was reading the online version of the Pueblo (Colorado) Chieftain this afternoon and happened onto this article provided by the Pueblo Nature and Wildlife Discovery Center, formerly known more prosaically as Pueblo Mountain Park: “Nature’s Classroom: Imbolg, Time of Germination.” The park has a long and interesting history. 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