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Bua Beltane Boy - Tending a May Birth-Death-Day

When the summer is bursting through in all its fine greenery, and traditional May Day festival rites are kept to welcome in the luscious fertility of this time, I am keeping a lament, for this is the time that I gave birth to death instead of new life

pilgrimage, mythology, storytellling, death doulaSerena Constance2 May 2022May Day, Birth, death, Beltane, grief, death doula, utiseta, South Downs, Sussex, Irish myths, Poetry

Drinking from the well of ancestral memory

How do we find that place of compassion deep in our soulful hearts to forgive our ancestors? For the mistakes that they made, the suffering they may have caused or endured, and for the wounds that they may have passed down to us through the generations?

history, memory, pilgrimage, storySerena Constance30 October 2021samhain, tree of life, Yggdrasil, ancestors, family history, Mayflower, Willaim Bradwell, Dorothy Bradwell, Well of Urd, storytelling