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Blessed equinox. Another lovely potluck with @baltimorereclaiming ✨ Great stories, music, art and eats (and fun with portmanteaus)!
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I recently visited the shrine and relics of St Valentine at Whitefriar Street Church in Dublin. The reliquary, containing bits of blood-tinged bone was uncovered during one of the many church/monastery reconstructions above the saint’s grave and was gifted to Irish Carmelite, John Spratt by Pope Gregory XVI in 1835. Although the remains were placed…
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Bringing Saint Gobnait resistance energy on this day and moving into the rest of the year! “[A] poor widow, who was unable to pay her rent, had her sole wealth, a few cows, whose milk she sold, seized by bailiffs, and in her distress, invoked assistance of St Gobnait, whose church she was passing at…
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Brigid’s eternal flame sparks our resolve. We declare our intentions and make them real. Gratitude to @baltimorereclaiming for a lovely Imbolc ritual (for the short time I was able to attend). come together | burn | decompose | rest | sprout | grow
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So much gratitude for Lúnasa Faction Fest with @bmorebata this weekend 🦊 The shillelagh as a fighting stick performs the function of personal and community defence in close combat. The context of such measures has changed over time and space, while retaining the exegetical legacies of each period, including mythic representations, pre-Christian ritual symbolism and shifts in…
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Repost from @bmorebata 🦊 Calling all geeks and nerds!Community Geekouts are back!! And we’ve got some major offerings for Lúnasa: 🐰🎓a profile on another one of our animal mentors (Ithink you can guess which one) with @bridgingappalachia 🫒🍁an epic intro to three different tree families withwith a shared trait and entwined histories with @brighidthebard, 🌳⚔️ and anotherrr round of…
Bridging Appalachia
A Baltimorean folklorist in Ireland to explore story as medicine and the preservation of traditional foodways and medicine techniques in Irish lore.
Bridging Appalachia 