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Loreena McKennitt: Huron ‘Beltane’ Fire Dance (Live)

The festival of Beltane is celebrated on May 1 in the Celtic tradition. It is marked as the midpoint between spring and summer.  Starting the night before, fires were lit and it was a time of celebration, with dancing around the fire, invoking this as a time for renewing fertility and abundance, as crops were planted.

When I listen to Loreena McKennitt, I can envision the ancients dancing around the fire to music much like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNknNe3JWH8

Enjoy…

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DIY Bird Station

Last Spring I put together this DIY Bird Station in my perrenial garden…

I took an old chair that I found at a thrift store that was missing it’s seat and attached an in-expensive pagoda shaped bird feeder to the chair with jute twine. The top of the bird feeder has a little twist on and off action which prevents squirrels from getting it open. (more…)

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Re-Inventing the Self

I’ve been in Eastport, Maine now for almost 5 months. I realized the other day in musing about my first winter here that I had gone from the frying pan (Los Angeles) into the freezer, by moving here right before winter started.

Now that I am settling in here and have survived my first Winter, I am so looking forward to Spring and Summer. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what I want to do with the next part of my life, and although I have lots of ideas, there has been nothing tangible yet, though I am confident at the right time, the next aspect will appear.

I guess you could say I am re-inventing the self. What’s next remains a mystery…

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