Halcyon Imagines

Imagining reconnecting with compassion...

The term "compassion" has fallen out of touch with reality, argues journalist Krista Tippett, who deconstructs the meaning of compassion through stories, and proposes a new definition, linking it with kindness, "curiosity without assumptions", empathy, forgiveness, beauty, generosity and presence.

Light a Beltane fire, high on the skyline

"See Pan the Piper dancing in the greenwood dawn...Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Dancing round the Maypole, Herne appears in stag and hare, For to conjure summer...At Beltane" - from Ancient Dream, Aeolian Songspell

..faces bathed in dew and Druids in white before dawn at Beltane on Arthur's Seat; Jack-in-the-Green, the Queen of the May and gaily coloured ribbons; Summerisle and its sinister incantations..."groweth sed and bloweth med"; and of course, "the apple tree that grew for you and me..."

So many memories, some mine, others from the shared ancient gallery of the collective unconscious...once again "come First of May".

"See Pan the Piper dancing in the greenwood dawn...Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Dancing round the Maypole, Herne appears in stag and hare, For to conjure summer...At Beltane" - from Ancient Dream, Aeolian Songspell

..faces bathed in dew and Druids in white before dawn at Beltane on Arthur's Seat; Jack-in-the-Green, the Queen of the May and gaily coloured ribbons; Summerisle and its sinister incantations..."groweth sed and bloweth med"; and of course, "the apple tree that grew for you and me..."

So many memories, some mine, others from the shared ancient gallery of the collective unconscious...once again "come First of May".