December 22, 2019
Our family had a sacred ritual we practiced every Friday night while I was growing up. We traveled to a video store called Movies and Sounds and paid homage to the higher forces that fired...
February 4, 2019
The theme for the month of February at JCF is love, and February, with Valentine’s Day at its heart, is certainly the month to celebrate love. But there is another event every February that Americans...
October 28, 2018
[caption id="attachment_16932" align="alignright" width="300"] A Noh theater mask of the oni Hannya (image by Tommaso Meli; used through a Creative Commons license)[/caption] “Who was that Masked Man?" A childhood memory, televised in black and white––yet...
June 20, 2017
It is high summer in the Catskill mountains of New York where I live: green, lush, blooming, sparking with life. It’s an enchanted time. Every morning I walk my dogs in our meadows and life...
May 16, 2017
What is myth... and why should anybody care? What do you think? I ask this because that one of the most marvelous ways to play with mythology is to assess our own answers to this question. And...