I’m (finally!) getting a little better at noticing the mundane causes of my mood. Today I feel extremely bitter and uncaring. Eventually, I realized that I also feel very tired, and then remembered that I went to sleep later than usual, and in a bad mood. A midday nap will fix a good deal of this.
How we’re celebrating Imbolc/Candlemas
Content warning: paganism This year, a few holidays fall into this weekend: Candlemas, St. Brigid’s day, Imbolc. Maybe they’re historically related, maybe they’re not—you’ll have to look into that for yourself. Today I’ll just be writing about our plans. At some point in the past twenty years, I found out about Candlemas and the associated practice of eating crêpes (possibly because of their sun-like appearance?). That sounded good to us so we’ve been eating crêpes by candlelight every Candlemas for a few years now.
I started watching Twin Peaks a few days ago. I know, given my interests and the fact that I’m a Gen X’er, this is ridiculously late. Just finished season one.
Enveloping mist.
Bare trees bloom from the chill gray,
Lonely shapes in black.
Charles Eisenstein: “Economic growth is finding something people used to do for themselves, taking it away and selling it back to them.”
A border collie running an agility course is a being happier than which none can be conceived.
Happy 19th birthday to this kiddo!
Prayer before a fire (stealing lines from both Gandalf and Gordon White):
I am a servant of the secret fire,
The fire of creation.
All fires are the one fire,
And blessed be its flame.
Lovely night for a backyard fire
I finally read that Kingsnorth essay “Against Christian Civilization” and, yeah, it’s a banger.