Last Friday, Sweetie and I went to a pagan celebration of the Feast of the Dead. It was a community building event, which was supposed to be a conglomeration of similar celebrations from around the world. We had the food - traditional foods from all over the world. We had the decorations too. As for the rest, well, it was just a big party.
It was actually a lot of fun, and a good way to spend friday evening. On top of that, we got a chance to sit down and really get to know some people that we've "known" for more than a year, but never really knew. Among the many revelations that happened in that conversation: we "geek" about many of the same things, we are creative in some similar ways (writing) and some not so similar ways (stained glass, sculpture, chainmail), we go to the same conventions (but have somehow managed to miss each other).
I came away from a fairly late evening with the sense that I now have more friends than I had before - that should keep me warm all winter.
Posted by Becca at November 10, 2003 10:11 AM