Just saying...

These are serious anthropologists!

The stars and balls got it wrong, it's just two days till Winter Solstice!

Now this is a Father Christmas I could imagine sharing some great presents with me.

I'm not sure black people would want this guy with his list of the good kids. It's more likely PC people will purchase him and make him stand in public places where blacks might see him. 

St. Patrick's Cathedral 2017 New York City

Six days till Christmas

Today's quote:

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. 

-Willa Cather, novelist (1873-1947)

Iris, goddess of the rainbow

Bertha had made a complete Iris garden.  Dozens of different varieties.  I'll share some with you today, more tomorrow.

Thought for the day:

There is nothing in your life that cannot be overcome; whatever the situation or problem, there is always a solution.

Sahara Peace Choir concert (w/addendums)

Betsy Murray and Barb Rogers at White Horse, Black Mountain, NC

 
Just to let my friends here in blogland know how very happy I am to have been part of this concert...which just finished a few minutes ago.

Stephanie Heildelman, soloist

I'm home now, coming down from the high of performance.  You should have seen me at intermission...I was flying high.  I don't need drugs!

Rehearsal discussions and some great women working together

The women who put this together were fabulous...and the owners and managers of White Horse in Black Mountain did a good job of running around doing lighting and mike and so on.

Betsy Murray, soloist

Anyway, love of the goddess was put into music, poetry and dance, as led and performed and written by Annelinde Metzner. 

Annelinde leading the choir while Stephanie sings with us

Flute by Cathy, guitar by Deb

M.C. by Nels Arnold

Deb and our very own "crone" Antiga (to whom that term is a complement)

Annelinde and Helen discuss the dancing

I'm so proud to have been part of this group praising all the aspects of goddesses, from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, Celtic, African and Sumerian roots.

I hope to receive pics of the concert itself from others soon.


 

A friend in the audience who studied music and sang in operas said this was all new to him.  I just reminded him of how many musical compositions were made in praise of the sacred.

Annelinde Metzner