Ostara... still.
4/4/21 16:08 As I said before, two weeks of celebration seems excessive and my bathroom scales will agree with you, but here we are, still celebrating spring.
It's here in earnest now, birds nesting, hares hopping, leaves bursting out more each day. We have our painted eggs on a willow branch this year with its fluffy catkins all puffing up and blooming overnight. We had son one and his girlfriend here yesterday to share a meal and some conversations -very lovely to see them. We ate hot cross buns and daughter in law to be showed us a game they play in Lithuania with their coloured boiled eggs which I think I have seen one of my sister-in-laws play too where you challenge your neighbour and rap the top of your eggs together - the one one that survives unscathed goes on to play the next tablemate. It was very sweet and I won!
We have been out a few times this weekend and it feels like the world really is waking up this Ostara after a year of lockdown. People are smiling, working in their gardens or on their properties, running and cycling. It's waking from a bad dream or it's coming out of hibernation. Either way it is a chance to think how you will continue now you have experienced what our carelessness and thoughtlessness can cause. Our greed and our lack of foresight caused Covid to be the terrible affliction that it was - and in some ways our actions caused it. Do we thank our lucky stars we survived and carry on as before or do we use the fear and loss, and the time we spent waiting to decide to do this better now. I hope we can agree that the price we paid was a high one and it could have been made less had we not abused our 'top ape' status.
Tomorrow is the last day of the Easter holiday and we will be going to Sussex to see our parents. It has been such a long time and I'm excited and concerned to see how they have fared. We will be planning to Beltane (although they don't know it) and for a trip to Pashley Manor to see the tulip festival I hope.
Bright Blessings.
It's here in earnest now, birds nesting, hares hopping, leaves bursting out more each day. We have our painted eggs on a willow branch this year with its fluffy catkins all puffing up and blooming overnight. We had son one and his girlfriend here yesterday to share a meal and some conversations -very lovely to see them. We ate hot cross buns and daughter in law to be showed us a game they play in Lithuania with their coloured boiled eggs which I think I have seen one of my sister-in-laws play too where you challenge your neighbour and rap the top of your eggs together - the one one that survives unscathed goes on to play the next tablemate. It was very sweet and I won!
We have been out a few times this weekend and it feels like the world really is waking up this Ostara after a year of lockdown. People are smiling, working in their gardens or on their properties, running and cycling. It's waking from a bad dream or it's coming out of hibernation. Either way it is a chance to think how you will continue now you have experienced what our carelessness and thoughtlessness can cause. Our greed and our lack of foresight caused Covid to be the terrible affliction that it was - and in some ways our actions caused it. Do we thank our lucky stars we survived and carry on as before or do we use the fear and loss, and the time we spent waiting to decide to do this better now. I hope we can agree that the price we paid was a high one and it could have been made less had we not abused our 'top ape' status.
Tomorrow is the last day of the Easter holiday and we will be going to Sussex to see our parents. It has been such a long time and I'm excited and concerned to see how they have fared. We will be planning to Beltane (although they don't know it) and for a trip to Pashley Manor to see the tulip festival I hope.
Bright Blessings.