Velvet Graves

Velvet Graves

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Photo of a crowd of people, many in pink hats, standingon the National Mall, with the Captial Building off in the distance. One person holds a sign that reads "Witches, we need you!"

On the Nature of Power

Inspiration, art, and the dialectic of power-over vs power-within

What I Talk About When I Talk About Magic

What I Talk About When I Talk About Magic

"Okay, but you're not actually trying to cast spells or anything...right?"

A photo showing the stage of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. Two mean sit on the empty stage, appearing deep in discussion

The Empty Space

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy...

photograph of the interior of a mutli-floor library without walls so that all the shelves for all the floors are visble at once

The Book Chooses You

My faith, built on experience, is that books come to you when you need them.

Photo of the side of a building with graffiti that uses imagery of the Maurice Sendak book "Where the Wild Things Are"

Pagan Potluck

In the very same basement where the Dead Milkmen used to play!

A sculpture of a woman who seems to leap from a balcony. To fly? To fall? It is unclear.

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She hails from the west

The Midwest, that is...