Blessed is the gift of the Summertime, just now departed… Hot, Sticky sweet, Humming and buzzing with life And the ripening… Summer love. Summer breezes. Summer nights. Summer vacation. Peaches. Flip-flops. Beaches. Fat, red tomatoes. Hummingbirds. What are you most grateful for when summer comes? Has summer changed for you over the years? For instance … Read more
Blessed Mother Goddess, Queen of Heaven, She of Ten Thousand Names. Star Goddess. Mama Gaia. My Lady of the Green Wood. Brighid. Danu. Hecate. Minerva. Kuan Yin. Yemaya. I give thanks and praises to you this day for your presence in my life and my heart. I give thanks for your many gifts to us… … Read more
Blessed Mother Goddess, Queen of Heaven, She of Ten Thousand Names. Star Goddess. Mama Gaia. My Lady of the Green Wood. Brighid. Danu. Hecate. Minerva. Kuan Yin. Yemaya. I give thanks and praises to you this day for your presence in my life and my heart. I give thanks for your many gifts to us… … Read more
… Starting with the Springtime, For the gift of the seed in the ground That bursts through the cold, dark soil; For the renewal of life and the return of the Green; For the sweet calling of birds; For the birthing of young; For fragrant blossoming of buds That burst forth into bloom… Spring may … Read more
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. — G.K. Chesterton After centering and invoking the One(s) to whom we wish to address our prayer of thanksgiving (and I very much welcome and encourage your ongoing discussions of how you do this), we start … Read more
Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness. — Jalal ad-Din Rumi Holding the beginning bead, in this case, my bisque Goddess image given to me long ago by Susan Baylies, I breathe. Find stillness. Begin. “Blessed Mother Goddess, Queen of … Read more
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and … Read more
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. — Thornton Wilder With this week’s New Moon that follows the celebration of the First Harvest, we now transition into the Fall quarter of the year. “Fall?!?” you say. I know, I know. Here in North … Read more
A painting is never finished — it simply stops in interesting places. — Paul Gardner Today, we bid goodbye to the work begun at Imbolc, 2009, working our way through The Artist’s Way. I leave you with some final thoughts. First, as we have admitted by now that we are recovering artists, we are urged … Read more
The Shortest Day by Susan Cooper (author of The Dark is Rising) And so the Shortest Day came and the year died And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world Came people singing, dancing, To drive the dark away. They lighted candles in the winter trees; They hung their homes with evergreen; They burned … Read more