The Chicago Trib. has up the usual sort of review one could expect of an Alternative spirituality festival.

Want to know who else is celebrating this winter? Here's another: "Spider Woman and Lord Ganesh. Bonfires and meditation. House-cleaning and purification rituals. Tea cakes, rice balls and sacrificial boars."

To add to the expanding list of positive treatments of Paganism is this thoughtful article on aging and death in the Pagan community.