It's Sunday

This is me. Taken about a year ago. The face is still the same, but the hair is darker now. I change my hair color and "do" all the time; I get sick of one look very quickly. Urban camouflage.

Worked a concert last night. The performers were The Weepies and Melanie. I'd never heard The Weepies before, and they were really great. Melanie, on the other hand, didn't show up on time, got pissed because there was no honey for her tea, and has lost most of the appeal she used to have. Ah well. She drew a decent crowd at our little theater--so far, the biggest concert we've done since August. When I got home, my knees were about ready to combust spontaneously. They really hurt, but 4 aspirin let me get to sleep.
Don't ever think arthritis isn't a nasty disease--it can make you cry.

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Seasonal musing: it's nearly the Fall Equinox, or as I call it, Mabon--the second-to-last holiday in the year. My year goes from November 1 to October 31 and has eight major holidays as follows:

• Samhain: (Hallowe'en to the rest of the world) the New year and Year's End at the same time. You honor and feed the dead who went before, and you pack it in for the long winter ahead.
• Yule: (that's the Winter Solstice, not Christmas). The celebration of the sun's return to longer days and shorter nights, even though you can't see it quite yet.
• Imbolc: (midwinter for us) a celebration of light and contemplation, and renewal, and getting ready for the spring coming ahead.
• Ostara: (Spring Equinox) the "official" return of Spring.
• Beltane: (May Day) the time of planting and growing and celebration of fertility.
• Litha: (Summer Solstice) Midsummer originally, but actually the time when the days begin to grow shorter.
• Lughnasadh: (pronounced LOO nuh say) the first harvest festival, and a time to celebrate all the hard work you've done all spring and summer.
• Mabon: (The end of the growing year) A thanksgiving and reaping time, when you get ready for the end of the year by feasting.

Here's a wheel of the year that illustrates the whole cycle