Life and Death
Happy May Day! The First of May is celebrated widely and diversely. The Writers Almanac surveys the many different ways May 1st is, and has been, observed across the years. In addition to celebrating, with open heart and all my senses, the earth’s great efflorescing, I like to mark the march of seasons. (Effloresce was my word of the day today. It’s a...
We Are Made of Light..
We are well on the way to the longest day of the year… just past Beltane, the Celtic celebration of the half-way point between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice. Beltane rituals often involved fire, and invoked protection for crops, herds, people, and encouraged growth and fertility. I’m also right around the corner of my 71st...
Dance! There’s No Tomorrow!
Today is May Day, half way between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice, also called Beltane. What better way to celebrate this ebullient and delicious turning than to Dance! I started to write Dance Like There’s No Tomorrow! but then I thought better, and left out the ‘Like’, because there IS no tomorrow, there’s only today! A...
