Summer Soltice
Next week I will be a re-enactor for the Dunkirk Historical Society's tour of historical buildings. I'm going to be portraying an Episcopal minister. Try to picture me as a hellfire and damnation preacher. :) Wednesday morning, a few of us got a brief tour ourselves, to familarize us with our roles.
Tour Guide: I love this next church, they have a stained glass window of a penguin!
Re-enactor 1: Why a penguin?
TG: It's supposed to be a symbol of Christ.
Re-enactor 2: A penguin???
TG: Jesus sacrificed himself for us and in the middle ages they believed that a penguin sacrificed itself and fed its young with its own blood.
Me: Ummm, perhaps you mean a pelican?
Tour Guide: Oh yes! That's what I meant! A pelican!
I have to admit I really like the idea of the Order of the Penguin. :D I want to make a favor, a penguin vulning itself proper, with three ice cubes gules. :D
In the early evening, some Wicca-friendly friends of ours held an open circle. It was a very low-key soft-core ceremony. No candles. Not quite a drawing of quarters although the four compass points were mentioned. And definitely no sky-clad. Naturally, it was also a pot-luck. I am incredibly jealous. In the few hours I was there, I spotted a hummingbird (I was too far from the feeder to identify specific species), starlings, cowbirds, an entire flock of goldfinches, red-wing blackbirds, purple martins (new this year, after multiple years of empty houses), blue jays, bluebirds (eating mealworms), several rose-breasted grosbeaks and a scarlet tanager. More birds than I see in a week on our property and we live just about a mile away.
Tour Guide: I love this next church, they have a stained glass window of a penguin!
Re-enactor 1: Why a penguin?
TG: It's supposed to be a symbol of Christ.
Re-enactor 2: A penguin???
TG: Jesus sacrificed himself for us and in the middle ages they believed that a penguin sacrificed itself and fed its young with its own blood.
Me: Ummm, perhaps you mean a pelican?
Tour Guide: Oh yes! That's what I meant! A pelican!
I have to admit I really like the idea of the Order of the Penguin. :D I want to make a favor, a penguin vulning itself proper, with three ice cubes gules. :D
In the early evening, some Wicca-friendly friends of ours held an open circle. It was a very low-key soft-core ceremony. No candles. Not quite a drawing of quarters although the four compass points were mentioned. And definitely no sky-clad. Naturally, it was also a pot-luck. I am incredibly jealous. In the few hours I was there, I spotted a hummingbird (I was too far from the feeder to identify specific species), starlings, cowbirds, an entire flock of goldfinches, red-wing blackbirds, purple martins (new this year, after multiple years of empty houses), blue jays, bluebirds (eating mealworms), several rose-breasted grosbeaks and a scarlet tanager. More birds than I see in a week on our property and we live just about a mile away.