The Ceremony in the Barn

Tara's entrance -
Vince on Pipes

Nick enters with fiddle

Djini weaves a magic circle

Tara and Nick's Wedding

PART II

Slow drumming (thanks Alastair and Verene) as everyone sits ...

Djini explains what's in store, tells a story of the sage and the owls' wing, the four directions, the circle of oats ...

Then outside a leads Tara and Nick to the circle...

Tara reads her poem of love, Nick replies on the fiddle ...

And Djini leads the exchanges of the celebration of love and commitment

The exchange

Rowan Berry Necklaces for Wisdom

Belts for desire

Rings for devotion

Wine for love

Then ...

 

Quaker-style contemplation for some minutes before ...

 

Ampersands - a poem by David Wilding

& here is the life & the hope that we bring
& here are the stooks of love that we sing
& here the joy & here the laugther & song
& here the hope for a life that is long.

& here are the people, the smiles & the stage,
& here are their thoughts, so birdlike & vague,
& here the unseen, the dead with their weather,
& here is the future, the cloak of gull,s feather.

& now is the time we give to you & your wife
& bless your waking & the course of your life
& lift up your sad and non-humorous days
& fuel the light to your wandering star.

& when you are happy & dancing with glee
& the sound of our voices is distant & low
think on Gwen and I & the power of our love
& these little ampersands with magic to give.

15.1.00

(It is 35 years to the day since Gwen and I
first met at a party in Battersea in London.)

Pat O'Leary sits after ... "Love opened the door to an ancient recognition..and when you enter you are home"

Rosie O'Leary stands ...

Tara and Nick's Wedding

PART III

After a few minutes' silence, David Wilding stood as the first of many poets, singers, musicians and teeth-players ...


Jimmie Hepburn on Teeth


Amazed, delighted. awe-struck by the array of talent and variety of people ...

Fieja and 'Let out your madness!' ... Shamanic Siberian drumming madness...

Or was it like this?

... or this?

NEXT - partying into the night ...