Yay, fun!

[featherynscale]

Despair is such a winter emotion - keeping it around into spring is sort of the psychic equivalent of wearing white after Labor Day. Yeah, there's a war on, the markets are shit, nobody can get a job and nobody who has one likes it, just like last week, but somehow it feels like the tide is turning. We can't choose what happens to us, but we can choose how we react to it.
And it's in me to work for balance. Despair and pain demand from me defiant joy - no good to sink to the level of the dismal muck around you.
With that idea as my banner, I spent the weekend celebrating. Drinking, dancing, films, good company, experimental cooking, boys in drag, generalized partying, many fine things.
Also participated in an Eastern European spring tradition - we burned Death in effigy and offered cakes to her as she burned - propitiating the spirit of the barren cold so that she might leave us for a season. It was a beautiful thing - the moment that the Death-dollie caught, everyone assembled howled and laughed, banged drums and shook tambourines - a communal cheer for life and liveliness.
Yay, life!
Yay, warmth!
Yay, fun!

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[kcwitch.livejournal.com]

that's what this vacation was all about. we did not watch or listen to a single thing about the war. there was no news on at all. i was a bit annoyed when micheal moore did his lil bit at the academy awards...he has the right to feel any way he wanted to, but the awards was not a place to view them.
it wasn't just a vacation from my house but from life period. it was such a cleansing thing for me to do. although i am sad to have missed such an awesome ritual, i think going to hot springs was a good thing for us to do.