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Got sixteen pages today. Very cool. Today is also Lammas, celebration of the first harvest. Though some pagans celebrate it on the last day of July, or somewhere between now and the fifth of August. Though Jon and I were both raised in farm country so this time of year might have meant early harvests, but what it really meant was work round the clock. Lammas originates in the British Isles and their growing season doesn’t match ours exactly. Maybe early August is when the harvest is winding down more, if not, when did they have time to do a festival? Of course, I do have a tendency to over complicate things of a spiritual nature sometimes, so maybe they just baked a special loaf of bread, ate some of that fresh fruit, and went back to work. There are many different varieties of this holy day across the Isles, research will net you a lot of different ways it was celebrated. The trick to all the holidays is to make it relevant to the times we live in now. If you grow food, or tend livestock, then your harvest is obvious. But for those of us in office jobs, sometimes it’s harder. First harvest can be a harvest of friends, maybe celebrate the new friends you’ve made this year. Or a new job, or that you were able to buy that new living room set you’d been saving for. That is a fruit that was harvested from your job and your family’s economy. Just a few ideas of how you can take what sounds very rural and make it make sense in some of our very none rural settings. I’m hoping next year to have a small garden so we can serve actual fruits and veggies from the land we live on at table for Lammas. As a Wiccan there are several holidays where fruits from our own plot of land would be very cool. Yes, I am aware that Lammas has much longer and more complicated spelling, but as a dyslexic, I try to keep the spelling simple.