I went to two Winter Solstice celebrations this year.
On Friday December 19, I went to the Solstice Service at the Universalist Church. They told a story of The Sun Cow and the Thief. The only reference to it I could find online was at this link, which is the transcript of a sermon given at a Unitarian/Universalist church at some point: http://uubedford.org/spirituality/sermons/815-qeverywhere-there-is-lightq-or-qlet-go-of-the-cowq.html The story was told with an impressive mask on the person playing the thief. The Sun Cow was a cardboard cutout. The service included singing, a 12 minute meditation in the darkness, and then a big sun made of twinkle lights.
On Saturday December 20, I went to a Shamanic Winter Solstice Blessing which is put on every year by Jaime Meyer. http://www.drummingthesoulawake.com/12th-annual-winter-solstice-blessing.html I've been before and will go again. I brought my drum and drummed along with all the drumming drummers, and experienced a trip into a sacred space. I also bought some delicious toffee from a vendor who was set up there. (http://www.wintergoddessfoods.com/) I have plans to go to one of Jamie Meyer's drum circles, since I discovered that they are in the neighborhood once a month.
In a completely and utterly different vein of things, I'm currently giving Mind Bomb by The The a re-listen, since it blew my mind when I was a teenager. I still think it's a great record.
Monday, December 22, 2014
Friday, December 19, 2014
December 19, 2014
Wednesday I only left the house once to go to the store for 10 minutes. That meant that I was extremely busy with work, since I was telecommuting all day, but I managed to find time to bake a loaf of homemade sourdough bread and make open face artistic grilled cheese sandwiches on them.
Even if I'm stupid busy working from home, I am still able to multitask in the kitchen, which is nice. My bread turned out awesome, and since my shopping trip involved some pancetta, the grilled sandwiches were quite fancified.
Thursday I made it out for an evening commitment I have that day of the week, which was nice. I put in an 11 hour day though, which was less nice.
Today is Friday, and usually on Friday's I like to make a pizza. Today is no different. Next Friday, I plan to make two pizza's because there will be guests. My hope is that I will not be too busy with work to interact with my guests, but even if I can't interact with them, feeding them is the next best thing.
Even if I'm stupid busy working from home, I am still able to multitask in the kitchen, which is nice. My bread turned out awesome, and since my shopping trip involved some pancetta, the grilled sandwiches were quite fancified.
Thursday I made it out for an evening commitment I have that day of the week, which was nice. I put in an 11 hour day though, which was less nice.
Today is Friday, and usually on Friday's I like to make a pizza. Today is no different. Next Friday, I plan to make two pizza's because there will be guests. My hope is that I will not be too busy with work to interact with my guests, but even if I can't interact with them, feeding them is the next best thing.
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Making an Effort
In an effort to stir up some of my own creativity and give breath to a part of my brain that gets often ignored, I'm going to take a stab at updating my blog again.
I will be perfectly fine if nobody notices.
I just noticed my last blog entry was dated February 13, 2013.
Since then, I've entered a relationship, we live together and bake together and cook together and are silly together. Emotionally and spiritually I feel like I have that thing that nobody said existed. More about that in another post I think .
Since then, work has become very busy and I no longer have had the time to keep my exercise routine. I haven't been running in awhile. I don't like this. I like to be active. I have dreams about running. Then again, I have a lot of dreams. I remember at least one dream a night. I usually forget by the end of the day, but some memorable ones stick for years.
I spend so much time dealing with my day job (which has turned into a day and night job) that I feel like I don't have a whole lot left. I suspect that feeling is not accurate, in fact I'm counting on it.
This Friday I'm going to a Solstice celebration at the Universalist Church, and this Saturday I'm going to a Shamanic Solstice Blessing. I'm looking forward to the second one more than the first because I've been to that one before and I know what I'm in for, and it's awesome. Anything involving drumming resonates with me. I love that feeling when there is a huge room full of people drumming drums, and a heartbeat of sound emerges from the chaos. It feels like the string that connects us to the energy of All That Is.
I am going to make an effort to post in this thing each day, just to write something besides a Facebook status update.
Ciao for now.
I will be perfectly fine if nobody notices.
I just noticed my last blog entry was dated February 13, 2013.
Since then, I've entered a relationship, we live together and bake together and cook together and are silly together. Emotionally and spiritually I feel like I have that thing that nobody said existed. More about that in another post I think .
Since then, work has become very busy and I no longer have had the time to keep my exercise routine. I haven't been running in awhile. I don't like this. I like to be active. I have dreams about running. Then again, I have a lot of dreams. I remember at least one dream a night. I usually forget by the end of the day, but some memorable ones stick for years.
I spend so much time dealing with my day job (which has turned into a day and night job) that I feel like I don't have a whole lot left. I suspect that feeling is not accurate, in fact I'm counting on it.
This Friday I'm going to a Solstice celebration at the Universalist Church, and this Saturday I'm going to a Shamanic Solstice Blessing. I'm looking forward to the second one more than the first because I've been to that one before and I know what I'm in for, and it's awesome. Anything involving drumming resonates with me. I love that feeling when there is a huge room full of people drumming drums, and a heartbeat of sound emerges from the chaos. It feels like the string that connects us to the energy of All That Is.
I am going to make an effort to post in this thing each day, just to write something besides a Facebook status update.
Ciao for now.
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