Tag Archives: Community

The Family Centered Weekend

In one of my Aunt Ruth’s recent blog posts she asked: “Do you enjoy summer picnics, with your family or community? Or am I right in thinking they are becoming a thing of the past?” Which kind of inspired me to write this entry, though I do not get to answering her question until [...]

Beltane

The last harvest was brought in and winter is past. The Sun god having spent his energies providing the light and warmth needed for crops to flourish hung low over the southern sky. The God was spent and soon died. Mother Earth also labored hard under the sun and needed rest as can be told [...]

My Friends

(Left to Right: Michael, Shannon, Ileen holding Damian, Andrea, Peter and Caswallon.)
Community is an important aspect of my spiritual self, and to that extent friendship is too. I can’t imagine life without good friends spending good times together (or supporting each other through any bad times.) I am an extrovert, I am a people person, [...]

Enjoying Life

(Photo of me from October 2002 in Sitges, the town I lived in in Spain.)
So many people inspire me to enjoy my life to the fullest, my husband, my son, my mom, my dad, my friends and family (especially my Aunt Ruth, if I have half her energy in my middle years, I will be [...]

Samhain

The Festival of Samhain was an ancient Celtic festival, falling on October 31st. A day which also marks Catholic All-Souls-Day and the secular Halloween, both strongly colored by the Celtic festival. Unlike most of the other sabbats, Samhain is not dictated by astrological events and therefor always falls on October 31st. Beltane is it’s counterpart [...]