R U Fond o' Fondu?

Plans to make Valentine cards inspired us to welcome in the Chinese New Year with origami boxes, crocheted hearts, and chocolate fondu

Trying to follow Margaret's flying paper-folding fingers

Rachel sang as she showed us how
"First you make a loop...

then you take some yarn...

...and start all over again"

Good friends!

Good food!

That's all she wrote!

Lots o' Latke!

In honor of Hannuka, Tal and Aby made traditional latkes with potatoes and flour, Rachel made SCD latkes with carrots and parsnips.

Darwin helped set up the red tent

We feasted

Lynn and Dody made pressed cookies...

Rachel cut Margaret's bangs and pierced Debra's ears

our new look for a new moonth

This Little Light of Mine...

Coming into the darkest time of year, it seem only right to prepare by hand dipping beeswax Hanukkah/Solstice/Christmas candles. Warm, glowing, honey-gold, sweet smelling remembrance of summertime sunny days, working with beeswax is a light-giving miracle before one lights the tapers!

The October new moon marks the start of Dvaali, the Hindu New Year and Festival of Lights and we marked our doors with chalk in order to welcome in Lakshmi, Goddess of Prosperity.




We also painted brooms to take home and clean house from top to bottom in order to make way for new ideas, creativity, and Lakshmi's blessings of abundance.We joined Alicia celebrating her birthday and...
"Because it is also near All-Hallows Eve when the veil between worlds is thinnest, we brought in photos of our ancestors to honor. We shared stories and wishes from and for our fore bearers.

Shana Tova

We danced in the Jewish new year... 5772!

x

Baked moon cakes for the first time.

Served tea

and feasted!
We'll be making more moon cakes next month on Oct 26, and as we near All Hallows Eve and the thinning of the veil between worlds, we'll put on masks to try out other ways of being, so we can
... decide
Which is right
And
Which is an Illusion*
(Moody Blues: Nights in White Satin)

Round We Go!

Getting set

Warming up

Stretch and shimmyStepping out
Follow me!

going round

Good Tymes, Bye Lymes

Preparing "tea."
Whipping cream
reading poetry,
remembering our ancesters,
washing dishes to news from Wisconsin.
A very wiggly isosceles triangle.