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My office isn't nearly warm enough. At least not warm enough to be wearing a skimpy dance costume in. Even with a wrap on over it I'm still pretty cold and my feet are absolute ice cubes. I should've brought my Winnie the Pooh footies to work with me. Sure they don't go with the costume but they're warm. Warm feet = happy ebonlock.
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elo_sf. I should've put way more thought into this than I have, I mean Samhain is basically the pagan equivalent of Christmas to the Christians. It's the big holiday, well next to Beltane, and it deserves a bit of formality and ritual. I've just been such a slacker about the whole thing recently. I need to get more serious, to actually start worshipping again. Well that and really focusing on my spiritual side, it's been getting rather short shrift lately.
It's easy to do, though, especially out here. There's just so much to do and see, so much to experience, so many people to meet, it's astonishing. Which is another part of what I blame my lack of artistic endeavor on. I should make the time for it, I just don't. That really needs to change.
Well change is what Samhain is all about, change in the seasons, change in the weather, the ending of some things and the beginnings of others. It's the time of year that we remember that death is a natural part of existence, a necessary process, and something to be accepted if not welcomed.
It's also the time to put things in the past that belong there and to look ahead with renewed hope and optimism. To recreate ourselves as we might wish to be. To see those negative aspects of our existence and change them for the better. Acceptance and resolution, not exactly a terrible basis for a holiday, don't you think?
Tonight will be opera, and perhaps to assuage my guilt regarding not doing a proper circle this evening I'll say a few prayers during the performance. Silently, of course. I'll attempt to do something more official tomorrow after I get back from dinner with
elo_sf. I should've put way more thought into this than I have, I mean Samhain is basically the pagan equivalent of Christmas to the Christians. It's the big holiday, well next to Beltane, and it deserves a bit of formality and ritual. I've just been such a slacker about the whole thing recently. I need to get more serious, to actually start worshipping again. Well that and really focusing on my spiritual side, it's been getting rather short shrift lately.It's easy to do, though, especially out here. There's just so much to do and see, so much to experience, so many people to meet, it's astonishing. Which is another part of what I blame my lack of artistic endeavor on. I should make the time for it, I just don't. That really needs to change.
Well change is what Samhain is all about, change in the seasons, change in the weather, the ending of some things and the beginnings of others. It's the time of year that we remember that death is a natural part of existence, a necessary process, and something to be accepted if not welcomed.
It's also the time to put things in the past that belong there and to look ahead with renewed hope and optimism. To recreate ourselves as we might wish to be. To see those negative aspects of our existence and change them for the better. Acceptance and resolution, not exactly a terrible basis for a holiday, don't you think?
