Two Irish Philosophies for More FUN, Friendship, & Inspiration - especially for CREATORS 🍀
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- Here are two distinctly Irish ways of life that can make your life a LOT better - and Creative People, that goes double for you!
I'd love to hear from you:
1. What do you want to WELCOME more into your life or creativity?
2. Have you ever hosted a Céilí? If so, tell us what you loved about it. If not: Would you like to? What's your next step?
It is so much fun to share in these conversations with you. Thank you, my friends, for joining in and sharing what you know!
WORDS
Céilí - a gathering to share songs, stories, poems, dancing, and other “party pieces”
Fáilte - I define it as “the Irish art of welcome.”
WHAT IS THIS CHANNEL ABOUT?
It's about how creative people like you can draw on the resources of Irish folklore and tradition to create your unique art with more JOY, freedom, and prizes. Poetry, seasonal lore, words and wordsmithery, music, storytelling, and traditional customs are all on the menu here!
WHO AM I?
I'm a poet, singer, storyteller, and scholar and teacher of Irish language and folklore with a PhD in Celtic Languages and Literatures from Harvard University where I've been teaching for the past 25 years. I also run the Bardic Academy, a school for singers, harpers, poets, and pianists, as well as the Celtic Wisdom School where we study Irish folklore with an eye to growing in creativity, wisdom, and joy.
MY LINKS
To learn more about me, please visit www.katechadbo....
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Here's a link to get my FREE video and cheatsheet about FAILTE - the Irish Art of Welcome: ruclips.net/p/PLXuwi648eujMGk04JaDUg-w8WL7M_IIXH&si=Tua6UdBZMeadE-d7
I'd be thrilled to share this with you!
Ahhh - a balm to the soul! Thank you 💚
Oh, thank you so much for your kind words: much appreciated and so glad this landed for you!
Right on, Kate. For the last few months at my monthly song circle at the library I’ve been inviting the folks who just come to listen to have a party piece. Recently a woman said…I’m 93 and this is a song I learned in camp when I was 7. It was great.
That's it, right there, Mike. That's a song and a voice worth hearing and I love that you are making space and welcome for her and for so many others. Lean ar aghaidh a chara liom!
Loved this Kate 🥰 I think surrounding yourself with supportive company and having a goal in sight welcome in creativity.
You know it, Poet! That's a potent 1-2 right there: a community and a goal. And how blessed I am to be in this creative family with you AND in our literal family. So grateful to "meet" you here!
Cheers to that! 💛
Well, the answer to that question is within your video. To be a welcoming host to one's creative impulses, to nurture the minnow to whale, one might share that impulse. In the sharing, the performing or displaying, the creation gains confidence, grows and evolves.
That's lovely: a warm and kind corner of the internet 🍀🙏🍀
Thank you for understanding so well! And lovely to think that as we host our own creative spark with more attentiveness and appreciation, we become a touchstone for others of what that can look and feel like. I am so glad that we are doing that together here.
Yes that's true. a touchstone that may test the quality of their gold and thus inspiration to fan the wee creative sparks into flames.
What a novel idea. Swapping stories and guitar songs is one of the best pastimes I can think of, everyone is always enthralled with the tales, or simply passing around a book of poetry taking turns reading aloud. Thank you for the advice and I can't wait for next week's video!
YES - you get it! Even passing around a book of poetry and hearing your friends' voices, their inflections, their choices, can be so intimate and joyful. I love that this idea is appealing to you, and I am sure that you would make a wonderful host, welcoming others into your circle and encouraging them to share their gifts. And as ever, your words light up my heart and bring me such joy: THANK YOU!
@@katechadbournebard Thank you for the kind words.
I was recently reminded of the provenance a ‘party piece’ I love to share everywhere, anywhere I am blessed with the attention of others. ‘Folk’ tunes from my region are rare and this tune represents. I learned it from Mark, who learned it from the Walkers, it was written by Lance. The title is ‘Chicken Song’. Am, C, F (then some extras at the end). A two minute song can last 20min at the right party with multiple instruments as I ensure a solo slot in every bar. Lance Haslund is on RUclips, check out the chicken song! (My version is different tho)
This is the link to the song (with a second verse now - updated for modernity sake) m.ruclips.net/video/Q00iSIkV1eA/видео.html&pp=ygUaTGFuY2UgaGFzbGFuZCBjaGlja2VuIHNvbmc%3D
Oh, so marvelous! I love that you say that a 2 minute song can last 20 in good company. That is so much fun and I just love to dive into the shared good feeling of that. Thank you so much for weighing in here!
What a FANTASTIC song - and such great playing, too! Glad to know about Lance. Thank you!
Kate - Thank you for this inspired discussion - so supportive! When you have a moment, would you kindly share what books you're reading? You've got the best suggestions. All my thanks and love, mary
Hello a Mhaire a stor! Always such a JOY to see you and thank you for weighing in here. BOOKS: so many :) This summer I read through the wonderful detective series by Elly Griffiths about Ruth Galloway, an archaeologist in northern England, who finds a lot of stuff with "Celtic-y" overtones. My mother read them at the same time and that was especially fun. I also loved and think YOU would love, "What an Owl Knows" by Jennifer Ackerman. I imagine you are already an owl lover and this book will make you a passionate owl admirer. Love to you, a chara dhil!
@@katechadbournebard Kate - Thank you! What a joy to read books with your Mom! I remember sweetly of reading the Outlander series with my Mom years ago - so lovely to jump into fiction with our mothers! Thank you for these titles! Love to you - mary
My feeling is that the cèilidh has always been from the get out go- whenever, whatever, whomever that was. In that we are a social species I imagine we've always gathered for the sharing of... news, ideas and also I feel the creative impulse has always been there as a trait of our species. To paraphrase John O'Donohue we are children of clay put forth by Earth to give voice to her glory. (I might be putting my own slant on this but that's the idea. I have markers in my O'Donohue books so as to refer to such but they're in storage just now, apologies.)
Those words from John O'Donoghue are beautiful. And I love what you say about the spontaneous nature of ceili-ing. There are wonderful pictures in the Irish folklore archive of people pausing in the fields to sing or tell stories. Imagine if we took this philosophy into modern offices! A LOT more smiling :)
Oh, I honestly got goosebumps with your words there. Offices, buses, supermarket aisles. A world of singing and laughing, story and sharing. I really think this would sooth a lot of ails.
As long as you don't get someone singing a boring song that has 27 verses or a long story that has a twee, disappointing ending.
I am laughing here!!! I suspect you write from hard experience. :) I've been there when someone forgets that this is a shared occasion and perhaps because they have been lonely or felt unheard, chooses the never-ending 27 verse song. Yowza. And yet, maybe us listening helped a little? (Or maybe it reinforced the grabby behavior - I don't know!). Thanks for a good laugh!