When they ask to see your gods
your book of prayers
show them lines
drawn delicately with veins
on the underside of a bird’s wing
tell them you believe
in giant oaks mottled
and stark against a winter sky
and in nights so frozen
stars crack open spilling
streams of molten ice to earth
and tell them how you drink
a holy wine of honeysuckle
on a warm spring day
and of the softness
of your mother who never taught you
death was life’s reward
but who believed in the earth
and the sun
and a million, million light years
of being.

J.L. Stanley 1986

A good way to start the day is to walk or sit in nature. The trees provide shade and preserve the moist in the soil. The sound of the birds is so much nicer than human made sounds. Such a nice energy🙂

Freya

My cloak like feathers,
energetic, am I wind?
Soft and bright,
so delight,
power this love divine.

Primal fight,
gracefull fire!
Harm my people?
Death is yours!

Abundant lips
touch the beast,
holding the staf,
of the good men.

Solid ground,
playfull silence,
mothers child
in my nurturing arms.....

Dirkje

(foto artist: F. Resta)

New group, link above. A place for patriotism and current events affecting us all.

"Without honor, life is impossible, not only worthless, but impossible to maintain. A man cannot live with shame; which in the old sense means far more than now, -the "can not is equal to "is not able to". As the life is in the blood, so actually the life is in honour; if the wound be left open, and honour suffered to be constantly oozing out, then follows a pining away, a discomfort rising to despair, that is nothing but the beginning of the death struggle itself.
Humanity itself is dependent on the pulsing in the veins of a frith-honour. Without it, human nature fades away, and in the void there grows a Beast nature, which at last takes possession of the whole body.
The niding is a wolf-man.
Culture of the Teutons, beginning of the chapter "Honour the Soul of the Clan" 1931

Depiction of Teuton settling area around 5500 years ago.

Yellow and orange is territory if the early Teutons, to the west Celtic tribes are settling, to the east is territory of the Illyrians.

@EuropeanTribalism

I was watching this while eating my homemade mushroom stuffed pelimeni (Russian dumplings.) Traditionally, pelimeni are stuffed with ground meat, but I make mine with minced mushroom, onion, garlic, Parmesan cheese, bread crumbs, and fresh herbs. Russians do have a larger size dumpling called Vareniki that they usually stuff with potatoes, cheese, or cherries.

https://youtu.be/EyqYzXBZQRE