Passover. The ultimate technicolour performance art festival!

Photo by Lauren Volo

An exerpt from my latest piece of writing on what Passover means to me, from Elephant Journal (link below darlings xx)

"Do we have to have faith? (Thanks, George Michael!)

The show “American Gods” (now excitedly showing up for its second season), foretells of such prophesy, though ’twas written 18 years ago by the genius that is Mister Neil Gaiman. The falling away and forgetting of our old Gods, of nature and honour, of respect and mystery.

Where do we place our faith these days? Who do we pray to or seek to glorify?

Surely, for the masses of our Westernised living, ’tis the false gods of Kardashian, soaps stars, and footballers. Perhaps “faith” is a dirty word, muddied by war, grief, power, and corruption. Can we reclaim it? Dust it down and hold it closer to our hungry hearts? To wonder, with willingness, what it might be like to pause, and to listen to nature and our own breath. To ask the clay of our own bodies how we are, who we are, and how can we be reminded of where we once came from, and to tell those stories once more to our children, and to our children’s children too. To see with reverence the wisdom held in a leaf, the sky, our world, our breath, and our very soul.
When did we stop believing in miracles? In stories and tales? It’s never too late to still believe in magic and wonder, and in the glorious technicolour madness of it all..."

Read more:

https://www.elephantjournal.com/2019/04/passover-the-ultimate-technicolour-performance-art-festival/