by Juliet Batten | 21, Oct, 2015 | Seasons Newsletter
We are approaching Whiringanuku, Beltane, Flowering and Sap-Rise, (on October 31): the festival of regeneration. And I’m reposting my message from last year, for there’s no regeneration in the death imagery of Halloween, which spills out of the shops... 
by Juliet Batten | 8, Oct, 2015 | Seasons Newsletter
What has a sick child to do with the growth rings on a tree? When my seven-year old granddaughter arrived for her much anticipated sleepover, the first thing that happened was that she threw up. Her mother quickly said, ‘I’ll take her home.’ Sizing up the...