Comments for How THW Gets In Gear http://thirdhandworks.wordpress.com readiness for people in their "right" minds Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:02:20 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on It’s a season, not a day. Part 2 in a series. by Let *stuff* go. The last of a series. « How THW Gets In Gear http://thirdhandworks.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/holiday-magic-part-2/#comment-648 Let *stuff* go. The last of a series. « How THW Gets In Gear Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:02:20 +0000 http://thirdhandworks.wordpress.com/?p=1798#comment-648 [...] Magic-Restoration Step #1: Don’t pay attention to the count-down. Magic-Restoration Step #2: It’s a season, not a day. Magic-Restoration Step #3: Know your symbols and traditions. Magic-Restoration Step #4: Just make [...] [...] Magic-Restoration Step #1: Don’t pay attention to the count-down. Magic-Restoration Step #2: It’s a season, not a day. Magic-Restoration Step #3: Know your symbols and traditions. Magic-Restoration Step #4: Just make [...]

]]> Comment on It’s a season, not a day. Part 2 in a series. by Let stuff go. Part 5 in a series. « How THW Gets In Gear http://thirdhandworks.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/holiday-magic-part-2/#comment-646 Let stuff go. Part 5 in a series. « How THW Gets In Gear Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:02:28 +0000 http://thirdhandworks.wordpress.com/?p=1798#comment-646 [...] Magic-Restoration Step #1: Don’t pay attention to the count-down. Magic-Restoration Step #2: It’s a season, not a day. Magic-Restoration Step #3: Know your symbols and traditions. Magic-Restoration Step #4: Just make [...] [...] Magic-Restoration Step #1: Don’t pay attention to the count-down. Magic-Restoration Step #2: It’s a season, not a day. Magic-Restoration Step #3: Know your symbols and traditions. Magic-Restoration Step #4: Just make [...]

]]> Comment on It’s a season, not a day. Part 2 in a series. by Just make stuff up. Part 4 in a series. « How THW Gets In Gear http://thirdhandworks.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/holiday-magic-part-2/#comment-644 Just make stuff up. Part 4 in a series. « How THW Gets In Gear Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:03:19 +0000 http://thirdhandworks.wordpress.com/?p=1798#comment-644 [...] Magic-Restoration Step #1: Don’t pay attention to the count-down. Magic-Restoration Step #2: It’s a season, not a day. Magic-Restoration Step #3: Know your symbols and [...] [...] Magic-Restoration Step #1: Don’t pay attention to the count-down. Magic-Restoration Step #2: It’s a season, not a day. Magic-Restoration Step #3: Know your symbols and [...]

]]> Comment on Know your symbols & traditions. Part 3 in a series. by Cairene http://thirdhandworks.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/holiday-magic-part-3/#comment-643 Cairene Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:33:22 +0000 http://thirdhandworks.wordpress.com/?p=1799#comment-643 @Liz - I think I would have been all over eating in the dark as a kid. Even if he doesn't quite get the symbolism, I say do it. It sounds lovely. And magical. oxo C @Liz -
I think I would have been all over eating in the dark as a kid. Even if he doesn’t quite get the symbolism, I say do it. It sounds lovely. And magical. oxo C

]]> Comment on Know your symbols & traditions. Part 3 in a series. by Cairene http://thirdhandworks.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/holiday-magic-part-3/#comment-642 Cairene Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:31:40 +0000 http://thirdhandworks.wordpress.com/?p=1799#comment-642 @Jen - "abandoned at the intersection of Love and Ego" - wow, and LOL in self-recognition, <em>love</em> that... I've been working on my own set of prayer beads, so I am loving that you made your own set of rosary beads from rose petals. So rich. And, yes! I realized after I wrote all this how much what I'm saying about <em>this</em> holiday applies to <em>all</em> celebrations and practices. thanks for visiting and sharing, C @Jen -
“abandoned at the intersection of Love and Ego” – wow, and LOL in self-recognition, love that…
I’ve been working on my own set of prayer beads, so I am loving that you made your own set of rosary beads from rose petals. So rich.
And, yes! I realized after I wrote all this how much what I’m saying about this holiday applies to all celebrations and practices.
thanks for visiting and sharing, C

]]> Comment on It’s a season, not a day. Part 2 in a series. by Cairene http://thirdhandworks.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/holiday-magic-part-2/#comment-641 Cairene Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:28:07 +0000 http://thirdhandworks.wordpress.com/?p=1798#comment-641 @Tara Good for you for finding the win-win solution with your family. Can be hard to ask for but so worth it. And pancakes all day? That's a tradition I could get behind. :) C @Tara
Good for you for finding the win-win solution with your family. Can be hard to ask for but so worth it.
And pancakes all day? That’s a tradition I could get behind. :) C

]]> Comment on Know your symbols & traditions. Part 3 in a series. by Liz http://thirdhandworks.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/holiday-magic-part-3/#comment-640 Liz Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:54:48 +0000 http://thirdhandworks.wordpress.com/?p=1799#comment-640 Cairene, Love this. For me the symbolism of lighting the darkness is very potent so I love cranking up the fireplace and lighting candles. This year my son is old enough I may try doing Christmas Eve dinner JUST with candlelight. Cairene,

Love this. For me the symbolism of lighting the darkness is very potent so I love cranking up the fireplace and lighting candles. This year my son is old enough I may try doing Christmas Eve dinner JUST with candlelight.

]]> Comment on Know your symbols & traditions. Part 3 in a series. by Jennifer Hofmann http://thirdhandworks.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/holiday-magic-part-3/#comment-639 Jennifer Hofmann Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:28:41 +0000 http://thirdhandworks.wordpress.com/?p=1799#comment-639 This is great advice. It sparks in me a recognition of the process I went through this summer making rosary beads by hand out of real rose petals - the way it's been done for centuries. In fact, using counting beads for prayer out of rose petals predates Christianity (and certainly Catholicism) for many, many hundreds of years. After reading Eat Pray Love, I sought to reconnect with my own tradition (which I'd abandoned at the intersection of Love and Ego about a decade back). Rosary beads fit the bill and have been becoming increasingly important to me as a tool - even if I'm not so keen on the rest of the life-squelching dogma. The depth of the tradition, the history behind it brings stability to my teetery spiritual practice. It's good, grounding energy. While not related to the holidays per se, your recommendation here made me realize - A-ha! I AM doing this! And its working. Listen to Cairene, dear readers. She knows of what she speaks. :) - Jen This is great advice. It sparks in me a recognition of the process I went through this summer making rosary beads by hand out of real rose petals – the way it’s been done for centuries. In fact, using counting beads for prayer out of rose petals predates Christianity (and certainly Catholicism) for many, many hundreds of years.

After reading Eat Pray Love, I sought to reconnect with my own tradition (which I’d abandoned at the intersection of Love and Ego about a decade back). Rosary beads fit the bill and have been becoming increasingly important to me as a tool – even if I’m not so keen on the rest of the life-squelching dogma. The depth of the tradition, the history behind it brings stability to my teetery spiritual practice. It’s good, grounding energy.

While not related to the holidays per se, your recommendation here made me realize – A-ha! I AM doing this! And its working.

Listen to Cairene, dear readers. She knows of what she speaks. :)

- Jen

]]> Comment on It’s a season, not a day. Part 2 in a series. by Tara http://thirdhandworks.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/holiday-magic-part-2/#comment-638 Tara Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:08:26 +0000 http://thirdhandworks.wordpress.com/?p=1798#comment-638 So true! I think those raised in liturgical churches probably have this already (which I wasn't and didn't), but expanding the season really alters it for me! I am a *huge* proponent of keeping some holiday time *just* for me and Jay (Christmas day), while asking the extended family (in-laws, parents, aunts, etc) to celebrate with us during the "extended" season (week before and after). I think it sets up healthy boundaries for our own fledgling family AND stretches out the celebrating, without anyone missing out! And boy, do we not build up the *actual* Day. Sleeping in, going to movies, pancakes all day, that's how we roll :) So true! I think those raised in liturgical churches probably have this already (which I wasn’t and didn’t), but expanding the season really alters it for me!
I am a *huge* proponent of keeping some holiday time *just* for me and Jay (Christmas day), while asking the extended family (in-laws, parents, aunts, etc) to celebrate with us during the “extended” season (week before and after). I think it sets up healthy boundaries for our own fledgling family AND stretches out the celebrating, without anyone missing out!
And boy, do we not build up the *actual* Day. Sleeping in, going to movies, pancakes all day, that’s how we roll :)

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