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Sunbeams

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Theodore Rubin

Editor’s Note

Reclaiming The Dark

An Interview With Starhawk

When we’re striving for all light we get away from the dark. As a witch I see the world itself as sacred. If there were such a thing as heresy in the craft, which there isn’t, that would be it — saying that you want to get away from half of what’s in the world. It’s a denial of what sacredness is. That particular metaphor, the light/dark split, is really a fundamental basis of racism in western culture. It was used very deliberately in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in the beginning of the slave trade. Part of the justification for taking the African slaves was that their color proved they were cursed by God. It has always been a metaphor used for genocide against people who were dark, against dark-haired Jews.

Sunbeams

There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

G.K. Chesterton

Editor’s Note

Oil

Friends

Following a voice, skipping stones, jogging in autumn

Sunbeams

After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

Editor’s Note

The Rising Sun Neighborhood Newsletter

I think we should have international coming out day where we gather our assorted courage and tell a few friends or the world The Awful Thing and find out — they already knew and didn’t care, they didn’t know and can’t see what the problem is, they’re shocked but get over it and are bigger in a while . . . or, or, or it’s awful to them too and we lose a friend.