For this Yule party I surrendered control of hosting - both to the many helpers and to the universe and turned down the perfectionist voice in my head that said I "should" do this or that. I also set a clear intent that the event would be easy, fun, spiritual and growthful and exactly the right people would turn up for that to be. Thank you universe for helping!
Thanks everyone who helped, if I missed your name below it is not due to lack of gratitude; rather it is lack of sleep on my part!.
Thank you to
- Thia for long hours of help on the basement and backyard and love and support for me and for looking after herself
- Millie for early set up, cuddle area design, apple cutting lesson and magic
- Leonard for candles and light in back yard, greeting, lots of clean up and for bearing his chest to all
- Gail for leading the quarter callers, calling East, cleaning up spilt candles in basement and for having firm buns in Santa Baby outfit. And for being so empowered that when you wanted to be sure that there was great dance music you brought your own dance mix CD along and got the dancing going.
- Marley for offering to call a quarter and gracefully being ok that someone else ended up calling it and for lots of dish cleaning without being asked
- Edie for smudging, calling South so passionately, sharing her Yule poem in circle, washing dishes for reuse and for doing healing on me when I got overwhelmed
- Roseann for calling West so beautifully and clearly
- Roger for calling North with gusto even though he was a quarter virgin until the party
- Ondre'a for fire tending and bring her magic powders to add to the fire
- JudyRose for doing a wonderfully spiritually smudging for the circle abd for sexy dancing
- Anthony for playing violin to both get people to the ritual and for the improv quarter music
- Hillary for enthusiastically leading people to the ritual even when they were distracted by the party upstairs, for starting the pagan singing by the fire (what an unexpected delightful surprise)
- Davinda for leading the singing of beautiful native American songs by the fire
- Penelope for sharing her laser wand healing with me and others and for changing out of jeans into one of my sexy red skirts in mid-party then doing a yoga demo in it too
- Floyd for dancing up a storm with me and at least 20 other women
- Jeanne for helping with clean up and food and drinks and for unzipping her bond-girl jump suit just a bit more
- Barb for calmly organizing the food area
- Kathleen for helping to greet
- Lori for helping to greet
- Erika for offering to play piano
- David G for helping to clean up (as he always does at Wednesday gatherings too)
- Randy and Richard for starting the fire and making it roar
- Alex for teaching me Tibetan breathing healing methods and a wonderful shoulder rub
- David H, Reed, Kathy et al for helping start Sandbox all those years ago
- Tom and Melanie for doing an impromptu tantric yoga set on the dance floor at 2:30am
- Everyone who stepped up and helped out when they saw something needed doing without being asked.
- Myself for setting a clear vision, inviting interesting and diverse people and for looking after myself before and during the party so I could be a centered, calm, playful and welcoming hostess.
Merry meet, merry part and merry meet again
love
Michael/Michelle
