Marking the date
Aug. 9th, 2008 03:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
air_n_darknessThis? This will be amazing.
I have only attended one Festival of Souls celebration with Summerland Grove. It was highly enjoyable and there is something quite intoxicating about being part of a circle that numbers a hundred or more. It just wasn't...me. I'm not big on crowds anyway, and my own practices...they do not trend toward the same vein. So attending again just hasn't been huge on the priority list.
But at the very least I will be there onSaturday Friday night. Mallorie was-no is- part of my family of choice, and through her I extended that family. Even now, she continues to influence my life in minute ways.
This memorial fire dance Fire & Strings will be doing will not be about mourning, but about celebration and honor. Because she does deserve such. No one is perfect; Mallorie had many faults and bore stigmas of her own choosing up until the end of her days. It is easy to be angry, to dwell on what should, could, or would. Anger can be cleansing. But anger left to simmer and ferment robs us of our life.
I have been through this cycle before. It is difficult to move on. But in the end, we choose to be stagnant and give up, or we choose to move past and grow.
So I'll be there. I'll walk the candle labyrinth and then watch the dancing flames as they pay homage to my all-too-human friend, to her triumphs and her stumbles, her smiles and her tears. I will be there. I will laugh and cry, and I will know that she is not lost.
I have only attended one Festival of Souls celebration with Summerland Grove. It was highly enjoyable and there is something quite intoxicating about being part of a circle that numbers a hundred or more. It just wasn't...me. I'm not big on crowds anyway, and my own practices...they do not trend toward the same vein. So attending again just hasn't been huge on the priority list.
But at the very least I will be there on
This memorial fire dance Fire & Strings will be doing will not be about mourning, but about celebration and honor. Because she does deserve such. No one is perfect; Mallorie had many faults and bore stigmas of her own choosing up until the end of her days. It is easy to be angry, to dwell on what should, could, or would. Anger can be cleansing. But anger left to simmer and ferment robs us of our life.
I have been through this cycle before. It is difficult to move on. But in the end, we choose to be stagnant and give up, or we choose to move past and grow.
So I'll be there. I'll walk the candle labyrinth and then watch the dancing flames as they pay homage to my all-too-human friend, to her triumphs and her stumbles, her smiles and her tears. I will be there. I will laugh and cry, and I will know that she is not lost.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
Friday, love, not Saturday.
Date: 2008-08-09 09:29 pm (UTC)and I hope you can come on Saturday, as well, as two of my favorite performers will be singing with me.
Re: Friday, love, not Saturday.
Date: 2008-08-09 09:30 pm (UTC)Fixing!
no subject
Date: 2008-08-09 10:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-10 05:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-10 04:07 pm (UTC)She and hers became very dear to me and I still find myself wondering how they are.