Sigils For a Waiting World Part Two
Perseverance Over the course of the next few months, I’ll be sending out sigils to help us navigate these times. These sigils can be used...
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T. Thorn Coyle
- Aug 6
On Lightening Up
And Listening to Wasps and Bees I periodically pause, tune in, and pull a rune to ponder. Off and on lately, I’ve been getting Ansuz. It...
T. Thorn Coyle
- Jul 9
Marley's Hot on the Box
On Art, Joy, and Rebellion I was singing Stevie Wonder’s Master Blaster yesterday, and a friend said, “I haven’t thought about that song...
T. Thorn Coyle
- Jun 18
A Walk in Soft June Rain
In the midst of the hustle, and the worry, and the pain, how often do you pause to breathe and feel moisture on your skin?
T. Thorn Coyle
- Jun 11
The Gift of Asking
Gratitude comes
In small doses.
Ordinary encounters...
T. Thorn Coyle
- Jun 4
Corn Chips Give Me Brain fog
And Why I Wear a Mask Part One: I have a chronic illness. Thankfully, it's under control, or mostly, at any rate. It went undiagnosed for...
T. Thorn Coyle
- May 28
Stories Matter
"Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it." — Lloyd Alexander As a child, I was a voracious reader. Still...
T. Thorn Coyle
- Feb 19
Crows and Other Gifts
On Making Connections in a Hurried World This is a meditation on gifts and the web of interaction that keeps us all connected in this...
T. Thorn Coyle
- Jan 30
Stephen King is Wrong
and so are some of my friends “…when books are run out of school classrooms and even out of school libraries as a result of this idea,...
T. Thorn Coyle
- Nov 20, 2021
Omelas Is Here: On Kyle Rittenhouse, White Supremacy, and Us
“It was not then a question of crime, but rather one of color, that settled a man’s conviction on almost any charge.” — W. E. B. Dubois...
T. Thorn Coyle
- Oct 23, 2021
Decisive Details:
on communicating what matters Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson once wrote: “What the eye does is to find and focus on the particular...
T. Thorn Coyle
- Sep 11, 2021
The Long Haul
on life in a rolling disaster Writing mentor and friend Kristine Kathryn Rusch wrote a recent Patreon blog about the need for creative...
T. Thorn Coyle
- Jul 24, 2021
Creative Generosity
Art, Generosity, and Life Art is not a competition. Art enriches us all. Life is not a competition, either. I’ve been working my way...
T. Thorn Coyle
- Jun 26, 2021
Who Benefits?
On Commerce, Politics, and Art Part One: Politics (from Greek: Πολιτικά, politiká, ‘affairs of the cities’) is the set of activities that...
T. Thorn Coyle
- May 8, 2021
Who You Are: On Honesty, Process, and Life
Who are you, right now? What is your life like? What do you want, need, and desire? “Don’t compare your insides with someone else’s...
T. Thorn Coyle
- Apr 10, 2021
Be Here. Now
On Impatience, Injury, and The Practice of Presence I used to say that the universe conspired to have me in airports constantly because I...
T. Thorn Coyle
- Mar 6, 2021
On the Bust of York
Or, Why Art Matters Not all pilgrimages involve ordeals. Sometimes, all we have to do is decide something is meaningful enough to trek up...
T. Thorn Coyle
- Feb 20, 2021
The Ice of Change
On Runes, Solidarity, and Not Being Okay “what didn’t you do to bury mebut you forgot that I was a seed” — Dinos Christianopoulos,...
T. Thorn Coyle
- Dec 27, 2020
Clearing the Old Year
I wanted to end 2020 by talking a bit about space clearing. We’re going to start with this meditation about clearing the space closest to...
T. Thorn Coyle
- Dec 2, 2020
What is Perfect, Anyway?
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of...