This week I found myself considering ceremonies, a subject close to my heart.
For decades I have been interested in how we celebrate across the globe. What, as a culture,
we pause for, remember and reinvigorate. It seems that ceremonies and gratitude are intimately linked.
"the spirit of the land"
walking the ground
witnessing the natural rhythms
i celebrate the spirit native to this land
connected through time
i feel the long, living thread of the ancestors
who also celebrated the procession of the seasons
our ceremonies acknowledge a sacred reciprocity
between the land and its people
in the spirit of gratitude
flora, fauna, mineral - ecologies of all ilk
become animate, by the simple prayer of:
I see you! I thank you! I wish you well!
we connect to the weave that sustains all,
to origin and continuity, into the Great Mystery
"reinvigorated by ceremonies"
