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Inspiration

[Susan Pevensie version]

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Knowing that pagans of all flavors are celebrating Imbolc soon, I'd like to share some knowledge from Morgan Daimler. I'm by no means an expert on Celtic traditions, but she is. So I'll let her educate you. Blessed Imbolc, y'all!

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“Where are your pagan gods now?”

Gardening

Comforting your abandoned dead

Reclaiming

Rerooting

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St Brigid's Crosses from the National Museum of Ireland Country Life collection

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"Imbolc" By S.R. Harrell, 2025.

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why is it that whenever I am disillusioned with the world I go back to the epic of Gilgamesh

“It is the story of their becoming human together.”

This is it. This is the oldest written literary work that we know of, and it’s a story of becoming human together.

This is a story about love, and it’s a story about death, and we told this story thousands of years ago, THOUSANDS of years. We have always, always, always been wrestling with this profoundly beautiful existence and with knowing one another, while knowing that we all will die and be forgotten.

We become human by loving, but we also become human by knowing death.

And I’m just sitting here touching other human beings, another human experience, from across millennia, feeling a bit more human too through it, and I am trying very hard not to cry.

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Brigid by Ariel Gatoga

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Emilia Cantor

'The Luminous Cattle (El Ganado Luminoso)'

Oil, 51”x 51"

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Sionnach by Jim FitzPatrick

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I think in the same way there's a 90/10 rule with horror and comedy (horror works best when it's 90% horror and 10% comedy and vice versa) there's a 90/10 rule for some relationships in fiction that's like. Wholesome and fucked up. A good friendship is at its most compelling when it's also 10% a bit fucked up. Fucked up relationship is at its most compelling when there's at least 10% of something actually sweet and substantive within. Do you get me

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the first law of tragedies: the end is already written and inevitable. the second law of tragedies: your actions are all your own and you can choose to get off this ride whenever you want. the third law of tragedies: we both know that you are never going to do that.

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another early horse, this time it's a very proud Merychippus!!

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Wilhelm Karl Räuber - Vision of St. Hubert [detail]

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