Oh, fire-spinner!
Your spinning attracts a crowd
Even people on boats!
Boats with booming sound systems
to provide a soundtrack to your art
Daft Punk
Darude
Benni Benassi
And the oohs and aahs and hooting and hollering
Faces lit by both the fires you spin
And the art you give

It happened in a park, surrounded by towering machinery, rolling hills, and a clear view of the downtown area behind the water. From dusk until nightfall. Seeing friends that I felt like I hadn’t seen in months. Someone mentioned that she thought I’d dropped off the face of the earth.

I tell you, there ain’t nothing like dancing like a salmon trying to jump upstream, with the music blasting from the boat of a curious spectator, in front of a couple of people laughing their asses off. With a guy twirling a fire staff a few feet away.

And the view was breathtaking.

Just a quick update on my Curious Foxes post from last week.  Lolita has now posted her own account of the experience on her kiamagic.com blog, along with some photos.

Just a quick blog to describe a magickal experience under the full moon that I enjoyed with Lolita Purderabo last night.  We had just enjoyed a pint at one of Bristols fine drinking establishments and decided it would be nice to take a walk through the folly, aka Cabot Tower.  It was night but well lit because of the full moon and plenty of lanterns.  It was also on our way home.

After we were coming down from the tower, we noticed something remarkable.  There was a fox right near us in the park.  Just wondering around and lurking in the shadows.  We stopped to take a look and crouched down to see.  It was nonchalently walking around, slightly too far away for my phone cam to get a good shot, but close enough for us to get a good look at it.  But then I turned around to find another second fox was right behind us on the path only a couple of meters away, looking at us quite curiously!  Then another showed up.  There was also a very strong musky smell of them, recognisably fox.

We really don’t know how many there were.  We only saw three at any one time, but it may not have been the same three as some seemed to wander in one direction only for another to come from somewhere else.  I don’t know how long we spent just staying still quietly watching the foxes as the in turn watched us, but all in all it was a very enchanted evening and we felt rather blessed and privileged to have experienced such a magical moment…

…it is just the latest in many special moments we have enjoyed this year in which we have had rare and special connections to nature, but the first I have decided to share here on serpent.  The first of many I hope.  I’ll write an update when we’ve got some photo’s online.