Celebrating Lammas

A Florida friend posted earlier today about Lammas, a Celtic holiday celebrated on August 1st. I don't know anything about Lammas, so I followed my friend's links to learn a bit more about it.

The day commemorates the harvest and asks celebrants to "honor the passing of the light and the reaping of the harvest," according to Waverly Fitzgerald, a Seattle-area resident who blog includes matters such as "slow time, sacred time and seasonal time." The ancient ideas Fitzgerald considers are refreshing antidotes to today's disturbingly unquestioning embrace of technology.

I think my Florida friend has the right idea. Why not take time to honor Lammas and all that this gloriously pagan holiday symbolizes?