Beltain Ramble
1 May 2007 - 14 אייר 5767 by Huw
Hurray, Hurray the first of May! Outdoor…
Etc.
I love spring. Even past the allergies, life happens. It’s warm, like a comfortable bath (it’s 30 today, without the humidity yet) and it’s riotous, like kids running out of a school at the end of the term. There are normally flowers except for the fact that the late freeze kinda killed them all off, but ok.
Glorious.
May is also the anniversary of my brother’s death - 5 May - along with his best friend, Brian, in a motorcycle accident in 1983. We’ve upped the ante a bit for spring: Brian’s father, Ed, passed away this weekend, making the beginning of spring extra painful for that family (along with 22 April being the anniversary of the death of their daughter).
Please keep them in your prayers.
There was a reason our ancestors (of Northern European sorts, anyway) celebrated rebirth rites at this season of the year. It was paired with the death rites in November. This is the other side of the coin: nothing is wasted all is gathered together. “For to your faithful people, O Lord, life is changed, not ended”. Spring is just the otherside of Fall, Easter just the other side of Good Friday. One can not be without the other: nor s one even meaningful without the other: there is no feast without the fast.
(To hear a modern song - not safe for work - based on the doggerel at which I hinted in the first line, click here)
