Posts Tagged ‘elders’

Elders, Revisited

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

It has been over two years since my first post about elders. And now, handily, Brendan Myers has posted a lovely article on the same topic over at the Wild Hunt blog. Not only that, but he’s also taken up the issue of what to do when you have no elders around to learn from. [...]

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How to Diss an Elder, the Dead, and Everyone Else

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

As it happens, this trifecta of disrespect is not all that difficult to accomplish. This is after all the feast of Samhain, when opportunities to ritualize bad manners abound. At Samhain the veil of etiquette is thin, as we all know, and the living and the dead co-mingle like ants around a sugar skull.

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