Some people (the Dalai Lama comes to mind) seem to go through this temporal existence instantly aware of each lesson that comes to them. Others of us stumble around for decades wondering why we keep bumping into the same sharp objects in the dark until we finally awaken to the possibility that it might be …
My mother’s birthday is June 19 – she would have been 85 this year – but her favorite day of the year was the Summer Solstice. On that day, she would traditionally drive to somewhere she could see the sun set into the ocean, and she would drink a champagne toast to the light. One …
Beltane is the season in which the Christian feast of Pentecost falls — a feast filled with tempestuous wind and sparkling fire. The Christian church inherited Pentecost (which simply means “the 50th day” ) from Judaism, where the 50th day after Passover is now more commonly called Shavu’ot (or the Feast of Weeks). In Judaism, …