holding patterns, and life moves on
Apr. 14th, 2007 03:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chelidonThe last month or so I've been living way too much life to write about it much -- more on that later. For now, though, we're getting ready for the big Magical Arts Restorative here next week, with 25 or so lovely people (including some of you!) descending on the Casa to spend 3 days and nights creating, learning and sharing songs, chants, rhythms, movement, ritual, dance and, I hope and expect, a great deal of good, juicy fun. Our dear friends Willow Kelly and Crow will be coming out to teach, along with myself and Jude, a local friend and talented community and camp teacher. My Ravishing Partner and one of my Lovely Housemates will be laying out sumptuous feasts for the senses, and it will be a joy to share the house and land with another group of dear friends, colleagues and practitioners of the creative and magickal arts. I always love teaching things like this, because I learn so much.
And it looks like we'll probably be mostly indoors due to weather, which is fine (there's always a warm hearth!), but I have to say that I'm getting rather tired of waiting for Spring to arrive. Well, it did arrive, but then after a few short weeks went away again, and we've been waiting patiently for several weeks now for it to return. Talk about changing regional weather patterns! We didn't have any real snowfall until mid-February this year, and now in April we've had three weeks in a row with a storm dropping 8-10 inches of snow. It's like the whole calendar got shifted forward in time a month, and we're actually in early March. Still, I can't complain too much -- unlike in the South, we haven't lost any crops, though some early planting is a little behind schedule. The native trees, shrubs and plants here are wise from long experience, and only the brainless exotic ornamentals were caught with their buds out. It is odd, though, and kind of surreal looking out of my window on April 15 and seeing snow drifting lazily down onto a white landscape. Hopefully, mud season (the second time around) will pass quickly, and we'll be back into flowers and blooms.
This Arts event is special, because we were going to do it at this same time last year, but had to postpone while my Ravishing Partner went through diagnosis, surgery and treatment for thyroid cancer. A year later, we've just passed through a bad scare where testing showed additional lymph node involvement and spread, but after a humongous amount of healing juju and further tests, all is well, the latest tests are conclusively negative, the doctors don't understand how it happened, and that is just fine. To be sure, being where we are instead of where we thought we were a month ago is the very biggest blessing in my life right now.
One thing is certain -- life sure is full of surprises. Anyone who is bored probably hasn't been paying attention. And I can tell you we're not sitting around and waiting for Spring, or life, to happen -- it's all around us, right here and right now, and we're sucking down every delicious drop.
And it looks like we'll probably be mostly indoors due to weather, which is fine (there's always a warm hearth!), but I have to say that I'm getting rather tired of waiting for Spring to arrive. Well, it did arrive, but then after a few short weeks went away again, and we've been waiting patiently for several weeks now for it to return. Talk about changing regional weather patterns! We didn't have any real snowfall until mid-February this year, and now in April we've had three weeks in a row with a storm dropping 8-10 inches of snow. It's like the whole calendar got shifted forward in time a month, and we're actually in early March. Still, I can't complain too much -- unlike in the South, we haven't lost any crops, though some early planting is a little behind schedule. The native trees, shrubs and plants here are wise from long experience, and only the brainless exotic ornamentals were caught with their buds out. It is odd, though, and kind of surreal looking out of my window on April 15 and seeing snow drifting lazily down onto a white landscape. Hopefully, mud season (the second time around) will pass quickly, and we'll be back into flowers and blooms.
This Arts event is special, because we were going to do it at this same time last year, but had to postpone while my Ravishing Partner went through diagnosis, surgery and treatment for thyroid cancer. A year later, we've just passed through a bad scare where testing showed additional lymph node involvement and spread, but after a humongous amount of healing juju and further tests, all is well, the latest tests are conclusively negative, the doctors don't understand how it happened, and that is just fine. To be sure, being where we are instead of where we thought we were a month ago is the very biggest blessing in my life right now.
One thing is certain -- life sure is full of surprises. Anyone who is bored probably hasn't been paying attention. And I can tell you we're not sitting around and waiting for Spring, or life, to happen -- it's all around us, right here and right now, and we're sucking down every delicious drop.
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Date: 2007-04-15 04:42 pm (UTC)You picked a lovely time of year to come, though. There's nothing like the Grove in early May. Have a fantastic time!
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Date: 2007-04-15 05:35 pm (UTC)(or come to britain....)
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