Bramble Shane

Good morning!

Here are your three minutes of peace and calm.

#OceanDevotion

Calling it a bun, I meant.

So....we're just calling it a bunch? Cool. The need to make masculine by using man as a prefix always seems forced.

A Classical Green Man masks in the Winter. Whites and blue Oak leaves with Holly, Ivy, Spruce and Mistletoe. The last is painted with bits of powdered Mistletoe. Accented with glass beads for berries. On display and available at Mythicon: Mid-Winter Gathering of the Fae this wknd.

We're excited for our upcoming event. MythiCon 2025: A Mid-Winter Gathering of the Fae, Feb 7-9, in Gettysburg, PA. We're exhibiting our art as well as presenting two talks. "Living an Artful Life" will be on Saturday. "The History of the Mythic Arts" is Sunday. Masquerade, mermaids, mirth, & More!

#WrenDayPhotos2025

I allow have a FB group at the moment to submit pics www.facebook.com/groups/45055...

Today's the Day! Hunt the Wren with your cameras! Make the Day a traditional one for walks and birding. Pics of nature and where you go. Winner is best pic of a Wren taken today. Share all your Birding pictures on Dec. 26 Wren Day! See links in comments for our group (Pic of last year's Wren King)

Here is our Christmas 🎄 Tree. If you practice the tradition please share yours. Let's make a festive forest using #MyChristmasTree

"Goethe’s final words: “More light.” Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that’s been our unifying cry, “More light.” Chris, Northern Exposure

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This is the real communism, to me

One Small Candle, by Jessica Radcliffe, featuring Martin Simpson on guitar and others from the album Forever & A Day: The Songs Of Jessica Radcliffe

Listen here and for $1 you can buy the song and support the artist. It's one of my life's works to see this song sung everywhere. It deserves to be a known.

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3. Light the other candles from the first. A stick of incense helps. Make sure to have a bowl of sand to put the incense into. Carry the candles about your home, one for each room, while singing the song. A flame is not diminished when lighting others.

Be safe. Don't leave candles unattended.

2. Light a single candle.
Play "One Small Candle" from the album Beautiful Darkness by Jessica Radcliffe. Sing along and take the time to meditate on the flame.

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Perform on the night before Winter Solstice Day, or whenever your family observes. Gather a collection of safe candle holders and prepare to light. Turn off most of the electric lights in the home. You can leave Holiday Tree Lights or Twinkles for safety.

A Simple Winter Solstice Ritual: A 🧵.
If you do nothing else to mark the longest night, the Solstice Eve, do this. Be still for five minutes of the night and start with one small candle. Let the light grow from there. Blessed days, holy nights.

My family once laughed ridiculously at me as tried multiple times to get a voice search to understand me saying anemone. Importantly, I am from Texas.

A lovely 🧵....

Down Through the Winters by the The Portland Revels.
This Revels album is a soothing balm. Mix of Medieval and Trad, as well as spoken word. "The Year" tells the wheel of the year towards the Winter Solstice. The perfect companion with the great poem that all the Revels use, "The Shortest Day".

Through the Bitter Frost and Snow: By Susan McKeown and Lindsey Horner. A favorite in our home. Bold Orion is one I sing to myself all the time, watching him rise as Winter comes on. "Winter King" is another stellar original. "Green Growth The Holly" is the best arrangement of that trad song.

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Song of Solstice by Jennifer Cutting's Ocean Orchestra. Our friends band, Jennifer Cutting & Stephen Winick. Includes a Green Man song which was inspired by my Green Man Order, which she and Stephen are members of. "Light the Winter's Dark" is a hymn for the light of all the prophets.

On the Solstice, weather allowing, we light our bonfire, turn off all lights in the home, and then bring in one candle lite from the fire. We use this flame to light many others, scattering the light about the home, while singing this song.

Beautiful Darkness: Celebrating the Winter Solstice by Jessica Ruby Radcliffe , Lisa Ekström & Martin Simpson. Enchanting mix with some traditional and spoken word. Notably is "One Small Candle" and it a personal mission to spread that song far and wide. Our family Solstice ritual uses it.

Thread of unique Holiday music.

Awake Arise: A Winter Album. By Lady Maisery, Jimmy Aldridge, and Sid Goldsmith. It's a marvelous collection of traditional English Folk music for the season, spoken word, and original. Truly a journey through winter to be listened to in it's completeness.

Two little Green Man book marks I did.

Photo of a tubby little wren (what I like to call a "little dumpling birb") perched on an icy branch, taken by Jeff Cohen

The meanings of the word for a wren, from eight different languages...

8. Little walnut (Bulgarian)
7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese)
6. Thumbling (Finnish)
5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish)
4. Fence-master (Hebrew)
3. Druid bird (Irish)
2. Mouse-brother (Faroese)
1. Little king of winter (Dutch)

The totally stunning (if a little top-heavy 😂) 12th century doorway into the Church of St. Leonard, Southoe, Cambridgeshire.
Imagine it with a bit of polychromy, too! 🤩

YouTube video by Tom Wisner - Topic Made of Water (Song)

Very much looking forward to reading it. Check out Tom Wisner. They called him the "Bard of Chesapeake" which in one way is one of the Earth's greatest rivers, the Susquehanna, fed by many others.

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This morning's grand glow. Good morning from the mountains.