Yesterday began the nine-day Feast of Arts, Works & Healing. It's a feast closely associated with Brighid, a Celtic Fire Goddess.
Brighid's Fire is the fire of INSPIRATION...the inspiration that moves one to write music or poetry or sculpt in some medium or other or form some other work of art.
That fire is TRANSFORMATIVE; it is taking raw materials (some of them of the physical world, some not) and making something new, that didn't exist before.
That fire is HEALING and PURIFYING; it burns away disease and impurity and makes way for something fresh and new.
Daily life is immersed in this fire and I hope to post things here that sing of that fire.
Monday, February 2, 2015
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Ordinary Time
Back to ordinary time.
10 years ago today, I lost my father - and 103 years ago today, my grandfather was born. So for me, 29 January is a sort of an "alfhar" feast day, a feast of my fathers, at least on the paternal side of my family. My mother's father was born 26 March 1910 and died 23 March 1999.
Given that I'm American, I do have a Father's Day in June wherein I can remember all the male ancestors in my family line - and I have to admit, I know very few of them. Sad but true.
Sunday begins the nine-day Feast of Arts, Works & Healing! :)
10 years ago today, I lost my father - and 103 years ago today, my grandfather was born. So for me, 29 January is a sort of an "alfhar" feast day, a feast of my fathers, at least on the paternal side of my family. My mother's father was born 26 March 1910 and died 23 March 1999.
Given that I'm American, I do have a Father's Day in June wherein I can remember all the male ancestors in my family line - and I have to admit, I know very few of them. Sad but true.
Sunday begins the nine-day Feast of Arts, Works & Healing! :)
Monday, February 6, 2012
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Feast of the Arts: Baryshnikov & Hines WHITE NIGHTS
No particular reason I chose this other than these two men are/were such great dancers. Of course, Gregory Hines is no longer with us, which is very sad, but we can celebrate the great dance he shared with us throughout his life, such as in movies like White Nights.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
Feast of the Arts: BEETHOVEN'S 6th SYMPHONY
This is the movement that appeared in the movie "Fantasia" but I wanted to find something different to post here for the Feast of the Arts. Supposedly Beethoven himself was a tremendous nature lover, and it was nature itself that inspired this piece.
I'm hoping I'll be able to squeeze into these few days everything I'd like to post, to celebrate the arts, the creativity and inspiration that sometimes saves our lives and uplifts our souls. There's SO MUCH out there!!
Thursday, February 2, 2012
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