I'm in a super good mood today. Ostara went very fabulously well and things are looking up everywhere, in that slow, beautiful way that spring does. With a flash of green leaves that newly bud and slowly grow larger and brighter, each in their own time, tiny centimeters every day ( Read more... )

Spring
by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Nothing is so beautiful as spring ( Read more... )

The Enkindled Spring
by D. H. Lawrence

This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green ( Read more... )

I. I did go to the Yankee Candle $1 Tarts & Votives Sale yesterday and ended up walking away with a mad grab bag of new votives. I always love sale days as they are, aside from new release days, the only time I find my way to the Yankee Candle Store. While in line a woman in front of me, also, handed me off randomly a great coupon for $10 off my ( Read more... )

I had the great honor of knowing for months in advance I would be both once again a first time participant in Third Thursday Ritual (after fourteen months away, and sixteen before that in which my graduate classes met on their night) and a heartily welcomed back member of the ritual committee presenting this for the group. And still I was moved to ( Read more... )

Friday
I ran errands in town and then went to Austin for Carly (gwenevre1) and Peter's Ostara Party that night. Where I got to meet Kat (evegryffindor) for the first time in three years of off and on talking online. Aside from a handful of disconcerting conversational revelations, the night was purely amazingness. I was glad to see Carly again, plus meeting Peter and ( Read more... )

Last night I went to the Reformed Congregation of the Goddess Third Thursday Ostara Ritual. It's an event I usually miss since Tuesday and Thursday nights fall to master's classes. But the lovely, lovely catholic university gave us a four day Easter Break and so I was blessed with getting to celebrate with my sisters for the evening ( Read more... )