good chocolate, and many other good things
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chelidonFair warning, this is mostly chatty domestic stuff.
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lylythe_strega just gifted me with a bar of NewTree chocolate (they make all sorts, and this one is the lavender variety), and oh, gracious, it's good. Highly recommended. This, after feeding our caffeine habit with Vietnamese iced coffee using the condensed Frangelico white chocolate cream sauce reduced down from the leftovers of the white chocolate fondue I made last night for the household Brigid's observances (ritually appropriate "white food," as well as being a convenient rationalization to try out the "fondue fountain" I got for Yule). Pure caffeinated bliss. At this very moment I'm thinking my mouth must have done something very, very good in a past life.
My partner is thinking of putting NewTree chocolates on everyone's pillows for the April Magickal Arts Restorative. Another good reason to come (only 5 spots left...), but if ya do, try to be surprised by the chocolates on your pillow, okay? ;>
Speaking of Imbolc, it was so great last night to have my six-year-old son fully participating in the work and the play with the rest of us. He helped with the smudging, helped me with the Lugh invocation, and no great surprise, he did a totally great Time invocation all on his own, bringing down his Thomas the Tank Engine pocket watch to help with the work. He has an amazing intuitive grasp of this stuff, so many fewer layers of filters and expectations to work through. We had a fun talk over the cheese fondue about the holiday, why we celebrate and what it all means, and a great little theological vignette during the annointing when his response to being told "thou art god" was "but I'm not a god." Trying to explain something to a six-year-old in a minute or less is an awfully good way to figure out just how much you really know something. I am loving this.
Around the Casa, Saturday will be a day and night of fun and music-making with family and friends, and Sunday I get to co-teach the first Rites of Passage class with my favorite teacherly co-conspirator, the ravishing Claudia Manifest. This marks the beginning of the second year of a regional Reclaiming teacher training process we've been helping to facilitate, and I am really looking forward to working with the Athena and Arachne story for the first two classes -- that one always brings up such great work around appropriate pride vs oversized ego, respect and reverence vs knowing one's power, right-sizedness, mastery, gratitude and just plain common sense. And, perhaps most important of all, actions, responsibility and consequences. Good for anyone, but perfect for training current and future teachers.
Monday the shell finally goes up for the house addition -- all of the material came in yesterday, with a good show for my son of a telescoping-arm forklift. As much as I'm looking forward to office space with a real door, it's also going to give more comfy sleep-space for guests, always a good thing. Part of the work in March will be outfitting the barn to accomodate another 12-15 people comfortably.
This day has brought us more warm March-like weather and still more rain, rain, rain, and the warm snap will last through the weekend, but we're promised a return to winter next week. I sure hope so, I haven't gotten out to ski once this year yet -- just plain pathetic. My son, however, is learning to ski just fine. Before long, he'll be daring me to follow him off cliffs, no doubt, that is, if he deigns to ski with Dad at all...
Midwinter Brigid's blessings to you all, and may your weekend be full of much bliss and relaxation! (as usual, the cats clearly point out the lessons to be emulated...) ;>
My Lovely Housemate
lylythe_strega just gifted me with a bar of NewTree chocolate (they make all sorts, and this one is the lavender variety), and oh, gracious, it's good. Highly recommended. This, after feeding our caffeine habit with Vietnamese iced coffee using the condensed Frangelico white chocolate cream sauce reduced down from the leftovers of the white chocolate fondue I made last night for the household Brigid's observances (ritually appropriate "white food," as well as being a convenient rationalization to try out the "fondue fountain" I got for Yule). Pure caffeinated bliss. At this very moment I'm thinking my mouth must have done something very, very good in a past life.My partner is thinking of putting NewTree chocolates on everyone's pillows for the April Magickal Arts Restorative. Another good reason to come (only 5 spots left...), but if ya do, try to be surprised by the chocolates on your pillow, okay? ;>
Speaking of Imbolc, it was so great last night to have my six-year-old son fully participating in the work and the play with the rest of us. He helped with the smudging, helped me with the Lugh invocation, and no great surprise, he did a totally great Time invocation all on his own, bringing down his Thomas the Tank Engine pocket watch to help with the work. He has an amazing intuitive grasp of this stuff, so many fewer layers of filters and expectations to work through. We had a fun talk over the cheese fondue about the holiday, why we celebrate and what it all means, and a great little theological vignette during the annointing when his response to being told "thou art god" was "but I'm not a god." Trying to explain something to a six-year-old in a minute or less is an awfully good way to figure out just how much you really know something. I am loving this.
Around the Casa, Saturday will be a day and night of fun and music-making with family and friends, and Sunday I get to co-teach the first Rites of Passage class with my favorite teacherly co-conspirator, the ravishing Claudia Manifest. This marks the beginning of the second year of a regional Reclaiming teacher training process we've been helping to facilitate, and I am really looking forward to working with the Athena and Arachne story for the first two classes -- that one always brings up such great work around appropriate pride vs oversized ego, respect and reverence vs knowing one's power, right-sizedness, mastery, gratitude and just plain common sense. And, perhaps most important of all, actions, responsibility and consequences. Good for anyone, but perfect for training current and future teachers.
Monday the shell finally goes up for the house addition -- all of the material came in yesterday, with a good show for my son of a telescoping-arm forklift. As much as I'm looking forward to office space with a real door, it's also going to give more comfy sleep-space for guests, always a good thing. Part of the work in March will be outfitting the barn to accomodate another 12-15 people comfortably.
This day has brought us more warm March-like weather and still more rain, rain, rain, and the warm snap will last through the weekend, but we're promised a return to winter next week. I sure hope so, I haven't gotten out to ski once this year yet -- just plain pathetic. My son, however, is learning to ski just fine. Before long, he'll be daring me to follow him off cliffs, no doubt, that is, if he deigns to ski with Dad at all...
Midwinter Brigid's blessings to you all, and may your weekend be full of much bliss and relaxation! (as usual, the cats clearly point out the lessons to be emulated...) ;>
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