Just for Fun

Early last month I signed up for an online workshop, just for the fun of it. After all, I live in Astoria where you can't throw a rock without hitting a Scandinavian!

 

The workshop starts today, and I'm anxious to get started. I'm not sure what to expect, but I'm ready to go Viking!*

 

Incidentally, my husband and I found a new series to watch online earlier this year ("Vikings," via the History Channel). Come to find out he's got some Viking blood in his lineage.

 

*From Randi Buckley's website:

Maybe you’ve always felt you were part viking.  And while it might be your heritage, the feeling goes well beyond DNA.  Ancient ways you may not know but feel a longing for.  Or you recently started watching the series “Vikings” and now get all tingly feeling when conversations head that direction.
Whichever way you’ve come, you’re here with a new interest or long held passion for the wisdom, strength, myth, and beauty of the viking woman.  Maybe for you:

• It’s the paradox of the nurturing warrior.  She cares for hearth and home and can skillfully defend what is important to her.

• It’s the adornment.  Clothing and jewelry of great beauty and otherworldly meaning.

• It’s discovery.  Navigating by starlight to go beyond your own edges and find new inner and outer worlds.

• It’s the magic and mythology.  Guided by power rooted in nature and beyond your own world.  Legends, sagas, ritual, and reverence.

• It’s the society.  Women had more rights than most people realize.  Laws were made and lands were owned.

• It’s the culture.  Music, art and architecture in homage to the Æsir , are stunningly beautiful and incredibly pragmatic.

• It’s the divinity of doing masterful work with fierce (and wildly fun) celebration.