moon song








ceremony charles eisenstein



Since my time at the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland in 2015, I have been walking deeper in to the spirit of things.

This essay by Charles Eisenstein is a beautiful call to cultivating ceremony.




blessing


I heard the lost words spell songs in a live performance in Birmingham in February.

It was magic.

Below is a video of the blessing song:





carrie tree water song







power full






francis weller, the hands of grief and gratitude


I have been reading a beautiful book called, 'The Wild Edge of Sorrow, Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief'.
Below is a lovely clip of the author talking about the five gates of grief:





To speak of sorrow
works upon it
moves it from its
crouched place barring
the way to and from the soul's hall.


Denise Leverton poem as quoted in "The Wild Edge of Sorrow"



for the dreaming







remembering sun







midsummer fire












compassion and wisdom


Powerful words for navigating challenging times from Joanna Macy:






the craft of kindness





"Being kind and not mean would change the world a lot!"   Campbell (12 yrs) 




soft











elder


I am starting to explore the Tree Ogham and one of the trees is the gorgeous Elder. A song for the Elder was one of two songs I learnt at Findhorn last year and here is one part of the song described beautifully by the co-creator:





yoiker and landscape


I heard this beautiful programme on Radio 4 recently as part of the nature series, it is available, along with other programmes in the series, through iplayer:





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