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Ritual for a Festival Meal

5/15/2019

By Deborah Globus

A festival is a day or period of celebration, and while Google says it’s typically a religious commemoration, when we’re responsible for our own spiritual path, we get to make our own festivals!

This is the festival meal we used to celebrate my friend, June’s 75th birthday. The basic idea comes from Grandmother Moon by Zsuzsuanna E. Budapest, and we spiced it up a bit with sacred space with some candles and tarot cards for inspiration.

Because you’re in sacred space, anything and everything you do during the meal becomes a sacred act. Every bite you take is a sacred act; every conversation you have is a sacred act (no matter how ridiculous or raunchy or irreverent.) Every act of generosity, every sip of wine, every meeting of the eye – they all become sacred within sacred space.

The Magic of Leap Day - a Ritual

2/28/2016

by Deborah Globus

There’s something cool that happens with a Leap Day.

Imbolc Ritual for Manifesting Your Intentions

2/3/2016

by Deborah Globus

Imbolc 1996 with so many candles and so many intentions

Imbolc marks the halfway point between the Winter Solstice
and the Vernal Equinox.

It’s a celebration of longer, warmer days and the first hints of returning Spring.

A Blessing for a New Computer

11/20/2015

by Deborah Globus

Blessing a new computer?? Yes. Definitely! Bless a new computer. Bless a trusty, old computer.

Think about how much time you spend on your computer. Ignore the technological frustrations for a moment, and consider how much good your computer allows you to do, probably on a daily basis.

Show that miraculous piece of technology a little love and respect, and offer it a blessing. And today is the perfect day for it since it's Name Your PC day (according to Mental Floss Magazine.)

How to Have the Holidays You've Always Wanted

11/18/2015

by Deborah Globus

Mine is a practical sort of spirituality.

Once I suspect something isn’t working, I turn my attention to finding something that will make it work.

Case in point: the Starbucks cup debacle. (Bear with me – I promise this will be enlightening, and not just a little bit humorous!)

Using Ritual to Rewrite Your Novel (week three: inspiration, progress and compassion)

10/19/2015

by Deborah Globus

By using ritual to edit and rewrite the starting is easier

The following are a series of Facebook posts detailing the process and journey of rewriting my Beloved Story.

"Weekend" 3 and the starting is easier.

That's the beauty of editing and rewriting with ritual.

I DID pop over to Google to find that lovely image of David Tennant's lovely face telling me I should write and I found ALL OF THESE! You've got everything from Loki, to two Doctors, to my boys from Supernatural, to my favorite today...the bloody Queen of England.

So, off I go...smiling.

I'll check in later on page count. Wish me luck! ‪#‎WritersLife‪#‎MaggieAndChristian

A good deal of editing, and writing for that matter, seems to be reminding myself of what it is NOT time for.

It is not time to fiddle with plot. That comes after I've written out all of the scenes in a list, and after I do some pre-writing. (This is true because I have chosen to follow The Weekend Novelist Rewrites The Novel and if there's one edict we follow in this house it is "trust your chosen paid professionals.")

Telling myself this is a relief because I don't actually know yet how to fix what needs improving and if I were to allow myself to dwell on that I'd derail the whole process.

You should be writing

Click on the delightful David Tenant to see MORE inspiration on writing

The Practice of Nerd Holidays

5/21/2015

by Deborah Globus

Imbolc 2015

2/1/2015

by Deborah Globus

It’s the start of February and everyone has had enough of winter! Even in warmer climbs, folks have had enough of short days and so very little sunlight.

Our ancestors (the ones over in Europe, at least) felt the same way. They recognized and celebrated the day smack dab in the middle of the Winter Solstice and the Vernal Equinox.

In the Celtic tradition it was called Imbolc.

These days, living as we do, so separated from Nature, it’s nice to have a day on the calendar, a holiday even, to remind us that the days ARE noticeably longer. And though many of us are still locked in the depths of winter and snow and snow days, we ARE still marching inexorably toward Spring.

Soon, Imbolc tells us. Be patient just a little longer, but soon.

Summer Solstice 2014

6/22/2014

by Deborah Globus

Today we celebrated the Summer Solstice. Technically we were a day late but with an eleven year old, a fifteen year old, and all the other characters that attend we’ve found it’s best to be a little flexible with timing, lest we don’t celebrate at all.

We celebrated the Solstice with a Norse boast, a drinking game that the Norsemen of the cold North used to while away the long nights of winter. We borrowed it, feeling that the boasting aspect of it – making things as grand and elaborate and LONG as possible – seemed in alignment with the sun’s longest journey in the sky.

A Norse boast is drunk in four rounds as follows:

Forging Authentic Traditions (From Very Different Backgrounds)

12/11/2013

by Deborah Globus

We’re an inter-faith family.

But that’s not quite true.

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My name is Deborah Globus and I am La Padre. With me you'll find the support you need to uncover practical, do-able spiritual practices that work for you. I offer new perspectives on old practices like journaling and ritual, with a side of compassion and a healthy dose of humor, just to keep it down-to-earth and real!

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