Tag: Nature
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The Cuckoo Calls
“The Cuckoo comes in April. He sings his song in May. By June he changes his tune and then he flies away.” That is a quote direct from the Folklore Collection available from duchas.ie. Yesterday, two lovely things happened simultaneously: first; a friend sent a recording of the Cuckoo taken in situ about 10km away…
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Soft Hearted Violet
“…Of the flower of violet and of sugar is made sugar of violets, of the same flower and of honey of violets and of the same flower and oil is made of violets. Whichever it is desired to make, put the flower in the honey, oil or sugar, leave it there for a period of…
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The Guardians of the Otherworld
All art by Andrew Ostrovsky “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.“ C.S. Lewis I recently had a conversation with a scholar of Irish mythology about the variety of strange creatures and beings which are…
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Druidry and Having an Open Heart
All art by Lana Sham “Stars are always dancing. Sometimes they dance twinkling away with the rhythm of your joyful heart and sometimes they dance without movement to embrace your heartache as if frozen sculptures of open-armed sadness.” Munia Khan Something the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids taught me was how to be more…
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The Folklore of Daffodils and the Return of Spring
“Life’s a dog and then you die? No, no. Life is a joyous dance through daffodils beneath cerulean blue skies and then, then what? I forget what happens next.” Edward Abbey I noticed that the first daffodils are beginning to emerge on our local fairy fort, Rathvilly moat, so I wonder if this is a…