Beneath the Surface

Winter Finding is tomorrow; as always, we'll honor UllR and Skadhi; there's at least one person planning to hunt this winter, so we'll include the weapon blessing. We have had some cold weather but it's been pretty warm the last few days, which doesn't feel quite "right" for this festival, but we've had warm ones before, it's just not what I'm used ti.

Made a chocolate chip cheesecake, hope it turns out well.

Tonight Read Window is on, a favorite movie (and my second-favorite Hitchcock, after Rope), so I'm watching it. I don't consider myself a Jimmy Stewart fan, particularly (my earliest memories of him are his appearances on the Carson Tonight Show, reading poems about dogs or some such thing) but I do tend to like the movies he's in, so there you go.

Tonight I got to see two Poirot movies on A&E. That's four hours of Suchet's Poirot. Yeah, I'm a sucker for mysteries, old ones or British ones. It's a happy thing :).

Finished my first read of Kerenyi's Dionysos this weekend. I say "first read" because it's going to take at least a few more to get through the layers, Kerenyi is like that. Learned quite a bit I didn't know.

We're trying to reschedule Winter Finding due to folks' different schedules, looks like it's going to be in mid-October, so we'll probably shift Winternights into November. A little late but that's not really a problem, I know I don't personally feel tied to traditional dates, and we've never held either on what might have been more traditional anyway. To some extent we have kind of continued to adhere to the usual neopagan year as far as spacing of festivals. Well, Yule goes when Yule goes. Midsummer is at Midsummer. The rest is trying to have them not too close, not too far apart.

We had our Winter Finding yesterday; it went well, one might even say smoothly (as we are an occasionally anarchic kindred, that's saying something :)). Eight people attending. Thanks to the Vans for our good harvest this year and farewell to summer; welcome to Skadhi and UllR (and winter!); blessings for luck and safety on those who intend to hunt this season.

And food, lots of food. Always lots of food.