Sickness and Imbolc
I feel like hammered shit. I felt perfectly fine yesterday until afternoon when I decided to drive down the Grove for the Imbolc ritual. Once I got there, it just went down hill. So I left early, turned the heat all the way up in my mustang, and my bones -still- felt cold and achey.
Once I got closer to my neck of the woods out here in bumfuck though, a tree fell down in front of me. I was able to slam on the brakes and not hit it, which weirdly enough, forces my car to beep and turn off (wtf is that?). But the car coming the opposite way just after me, hit it hard. I felt bad that I couldn’t get out and help move it, but I’m already dying from this flu.
I’m obviously not going down to the Grove today, I’ll probably sit and watch this silly football game and eat some junk food with my dad and just relax. Just existing hurts right now, so much moving is going to be out of the question.
Some thoughts on Imbolc:
The ritual was good for everyone being packed inside a very heated room. I couldn’t really feel anything but the pain from this flu though, so I was unable to get much out of it. I’m actually surprised I was still able to sing my praise offering to Brigid. And the other girl (who’s name I forget) did a stunning acapella irish folk song.
My only gripe, and I understand that praise offerings can be gifts of song, poetry, etc, in addition to giving thanks for something, but hardly anyone last night offered a gift. A lot of times it seems like people just want to get up and say “Thanks for helping me through this rough time, I’ve been dealing with [insert personal issue here].” And people like to talk about their problems or get sympathy I guess. In some instances I can understand, thanking for the blessing of a baby or something. But for the most part, I think people should save that for their own personal prayers and such.
But hey, that’s just me.
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One Response to “Sickness and Imbolc”
February 5th, 2006 at 11:34 am
I am so sorry about the flu. It is awful! I hate that pain in the whole body felling. Get better! What luck about the tree, it could have been much worse!