A wish for green shoes…..
I’m depressed about my shoe size. 10 D
I used to be an 8 1/2 B, but feet grow to accommodate weight- big bummer. Online shopping really helps because I can’t just walk into a shoe store and find my size. 10’s are hard to find in general. My theory is the young people (in their 20s) started life as big healthy babies - 8 and 9 pounders, and now as adults are taller with longer feet as well. Anyhow, all this competition for the size 10s isn’t making the hunt for my fantasy shoes any easier. I’d like to find a nice clog or Mary Jane casual shoe, but I want it in dark green. Doesn’t that sound pretty? Just a bit of color. I feel like Opus the Penguin wishing for wings that work.
Imbolc or Candlemas today. Choose your tradition. I lit one candle this morning. I worry a lot and to me a flame represents Hope, or Remembrance. I was in that sort of mood. I look things up, like the Day in History for this blog, and that’s how I found out today is a special day.
“Down with the rosemary, and so
Down with the bays and mistletoe;
Down with the holly, ivy, all,
Wherewith ye dress’d the Christmas Hall”
— Robert Herrick (1591–1674), “Ceremony upon Candlemas Eve”
As another evidence of “racial memory” I took the Christmas cards down and said a prayer asking for blessings on the people who sent the cards.
The Saint of February 1 is Brigid of Kildare. Coincidentally, the name of the Celtic goddess, Brigid. In Ireland the old Celtic traditions are mixed with the newer ones of the Christian era.
Wikipedia quotes from a book by Marian McNeil, The Silver Bough:
One folk tradition that continues in both Christian and Pagan homes on St. Brigid’s Day (or Imbolc) is that of the Brigid’s Bed. The girls and young, unmarried women of the household or village create a corn dolly to represent Brigid, called the Brideog (”little Brigid” or “young Brigid”), adorning it with ribbons and baubles like shells or stones. They make a bed for the Brideog to lie in. On St. Brigid’s Eve (January 31), the girls and young women gather together in one house to stay up all night with the Brideog, and are later visited by all the young men of the community who must ask permission to enter the home, and then treat them and the corn dolly with respect
And far to the West, Native Americans revere the Corn Maiden: The presence of 
corn as a spiritual symbol can often be seen in the hands of the “Yeh” spirit figures represented in Navaho rugs, in the rituals associated with the “Corn Maiden” and other Kachinas of the Hopi, and in various fetish objects of tribes of the region. (source Wikipedia) Small world, isn’t it?
Coral or Jade Anniversary Mr. Pyrate and I celebrated our 35th anniversary yesterday. We went to see “Avatar” in 3D. I do enjoy flying dragon creatures!I’m still at the “whoa- what was that?” stage.
I think it’s going to change film making forever. I’ve already heard that the Harry Potter final films will now be 3D. What will come someday is a completely digital movie with stars past or present: so the virtual Clark Gable will appear opposite Catherine Zeta Jones and so on. It will be wild!