we sat in a circle around a boiling pot (of water) over a fire pit, read/listened to a couple of poems, talked about being women (it was the launch of a new quarterly group for some women who know each other through church), drank raspberry-leaf tea made in the pot, did a circle dance while one young woman played her fiddle in a Middle Eastern style, then did some individual jigging while she played a Celtic dance tune, did some chanting/musical improvising on the word holy, then talked some more, for quite a while.

Since the equinox is a point of balance (equal length of day & night), one of our themes was balance in our lives. I was impressed with how thoughtful & intelligent these women were; I hadn’t known any of them very well. It was way cool.