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“What do you have to say for yourself?”
Within seconds of this video finishing she made a half-assed attempt to jump on the handle from my knee - simultaneously falling into and knocking over the basket - sending all the sweet woodruff into the air in a flailing effort to show-off perch for a camera that wasn’t even on.
At the Minoan site of Akrotiri, which was devastated by the Thera eruption in the mid-second millennium BCE, the Minoan ‘Spring Fresco’ (c. 1600 BCE) features blooming lilies and dancing swallows
...the part that has me going 😑😑😑 is that he picked up whatever this is from a friggin' nurse at a friggin' pharmacy.
Great art thou, O Lord, and marvellous are thy works: no words suffice to sing the praise of thy wonders. For thou by thine own will hast brought all things out of nothingness into being: by thy power thou dost hold together the creation and by thy providence thou dost govern the world. Of four elements hast thou compounded the creation: with four seasons hast thou crowned the circuit of the year. All the spiritual powers tremble before thee. The sun sings thy praises; The moon glorifies thee; The stars supplicate before thee; The light obeys thee; The deeps are afraid at thy presence; The fountains are thy servants. Thou hast stretched out the heavens like a curtain; Thou hast established the earth upon the waters; Thou hast walled about the sea with sand. Thou has poured forth the air that living things may breathe. The angelic powers minister to thee; the choirs of archangels worship thee; the many-eyed cherubim and the six-winged seraphim, standing round thee and flying about thee, hide their faces in fear of thine unapproachable glory... By the elements, by the angels and by men, by things visible and invisible, may thy most holy name be glorified, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and to the ages of ages. Amen. -- Prayer at the Great Blessing of the Waters (Feast of Epiphany)
Spent this past week preparing a ~birthday party for two~ for my husband, and on the eve of his birthday (yesterday) it became clear that he's caught another variant of covid. 🙃
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Indomitable. Only a few signed + numbered copies of her remain available at my web shop.
There are four major Sviatyj Yuri [Saint George] feasts in my devotional year: two official (observed by the Orthodox church), and two unofficial (observed by myself).
Sviatyj Yuri opens and closes the gates of summer. His official feasts are positioned at the start of significant seasons - summer (early May), and winter (early December) - making him, in my eyes, a solar-powered spirit. It’s with that understanding I also perform a St. George slava [veneration] on the summer and winter solstices.
May 6th is Yuriev Den Vesenniy [Saint George’s Day in the Spring] in the old calendar still utilized by Ukrainians and the Orthodox Church. December 9th is his winter feast - “Yuri’s day in the fall”.
By the time we reach early December in northeast Scotland the sun’s radiant face has turned away, and summer’s gate has been firmly shut. The days ahead are long, dark, and bitter. Candles - miniature reminders of the sun’s glorious strength - are lit, and are kept alive through various winter rites until summer’s gate begins opening again at spring’s great thaw.
see also: #saint george
Using a cardboard box to make smoked garlic 🧄 Here’s how I made a DIY smoke for my veggies...
see also: #project
glowing is her bonnet - glowing is her cheek - glowing is her kirtle - yet she cannot speak. – emily dickinson, ’glowing is her bonnet’
Bewitched by the pink glow of stolen stars.
see also: #columbine, #plant crime
Spent this past week preparing a ~birthday party for two~ for my husband, and on the eve of his birthday (yesterday) it became clear that he's caught another variant of covid. 🙃
On St. George's Eve, before sabbat, I harvest homegrown and locally foraged May greenery to create a special summer salad for Cow.
Once displayed on the altar the two carefully arranged edible bouquets form St. George's Grove.
see also: #altar, #saint george, #summer
Don’t be fooled, this bird’s in post-meltdown mode after I refused to the light a jack-o-lantern in the middle of the day.
see also: #peckman
Meadow Buttercup (Ranunculus acris), FOUND. [1 of 2]
At the beginning of my devotional year I pull two sets of cards.
One set focuses on native species of plants, trees, and animals that were sacred to my husband’s Scottish ancestors (my annual ‘year with…’ project), the second set comes from a pack of wild flower-themed playing cards - native, naturalized, and invasive species - that I’m meant to find during my various outdoor expeditions (my annual 'draw-and-seek' hunt).
It’s a game, really - definitely not as serious as my plant, tree, and animal for the year - but it pushes me to explore, and helps align familiar appearances with unfamiliar names (sometimes vice versa).
see also: #buttercup, #divination
From v. v. v. formal Vampire Goth to v. v. v. casual Pajama Goth within two decades. 😆
(Even if I don't break out any eyeliner today I'll still be top-tier goth in my corvid-stained The Sisters of Mercy t-shirt, random white polka dots and all.)
see also: #clothing
Various Artists: Unknown Gothic Treasures [UK Edition]
"Unknown Gothic Treasures is a series of music mixes that focus on obscure and underrated gothic records from the 80s."
01. Fish - Cocks 02. Apocalypse Jive – The Outcome 03. Chatshow - Kings Of Confusion 04. Igor’s Night Off - The Other Side 05. Stunt Kites - Deity's Lament 06. The Second Coming - Faithless 07. The Psylons - Run To The Stranger 08. Black September - Rainbow Kiss 09. Riprize - Bewitched 10. Brothers Of Craig - Tossing & Turning 11. Sins Of The Flesh - Let Me Tear Your Flesh Apart 12. The Fifteenth - Marble Shire 13. Screaming Trees - Incinerator 14. Rebel Christening - Desire And Glory 15. Jake The Pilgrim - She Sinks Down 16. Ravencathaus - Sleep 17. M4 Alice - Shiloh 18. The Devil Nation - Vice And Virtue 19. Communal Drop - Guilt
