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[blustocking]

Happy Belated Beltane.
Happy Belated May Day.
Happy Belated May 1st.

My Mother was pagan and she didn't even know it, though she would never understand or admit it now. When I was little, on May 1st, my Mother and I would make paper conical baskets with little handles and put fresh flowers in them. Then I would run around the neighborhood hanging them on doorknobs, knocking, then running away. (did any of you do this?)

I love my parents.
*sigh* Here comes the guilt...but at least it's a happy-reminscing guilt. :}

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[loeilinvisible.livejournal.com]

May Day! Ah, fond memories of my earliest years. My mom, such the hippy back then, used to have us make baskets with spring things like flowers but I can't recall what we did with them. I think she'd learned it from her mom when she was a kid in Idaho. Me, I'm more for gettin' naked and dancing around the Maypole or jumping over bonfires then heading out to the fields to ensure the next year's fertility...