A Grove of Ashes and Aspens

  • Death of a Program: Mourning the Arts in a Time of Need

    Now Playing: At the Court of the Wild Hunt by Elvenking So, here we are once again. The start of a new academic year. This time last year, I was just starting the Music Industry Arts program at Algonquin College, and I thought it was going to be really cool to be sitting in front…

  • Am I Truly Pagan Enough? Imposter Syndrome in Pagan Practice

    Now Playing: Heavy is the Crown of Bone by Crypt Sermon So recently, a friend of mine made a comment that I found interesting and, for better or worse, kind of relatable. The sentiment was that they don’t feel “pagan enough,” and that got me thinking: what does it really mean to be “pagan enough?”…

  • Language and People: The Constraints of Society Made Manifest

    Now Playing: Gone Epoch by Elvenking Humans trying to put things in near little boxes is nothing new; we’ve been doing it for centuries and we continue to do it to this day. In some cases, this does help us understand the world in some capacity. However. It’s so rare that anything can fully ever…

  • Counter-Counter-Culture and the Rage of the Conformist

    This post was written as a collaborative post between Nu Academia (author of the first half) and Ashton (author of the second half). As such, it provides two separate, though similar, perspectives on the same topic. As others have already pointed out, to say you’re anti-antifa is (with a little mathematical simplification) to say you’re…