Harvest Home

Here we are at the Fall Equinox, entering the third quarter of the year. It’s Harvest Home, also called Mabon. This is the second of the three harvest festivals. Lammas or Lughnasa is celebration of the first fruits. For me it’s the spirit of the fairgrounds: the prize livestock, giant vegetables, fair food, the tractor [...]

Wear Hijab on 9/11, Defy “Burn a Quran Day”

In Gainesville, FL, the Dove World Outreach Center plans to burn copies of the Koran on 9/11. “We have declared September the 11th ‘International Burn a Quran Day’” said Pastor Terry Jones, “because we want to send a very clear message. It is indeed a radical message but a very clear, radical message to Muslims, [...]