taryn_llyn@yahoo.com Revelation Taryn taryn_llyn@yahoo.com Fri Dec 15 21:07:18 2000 I just received the books "Ritual", by Emma Restall Orr; and "Celtic Devotional", by Caitlin Matthews. And I am thrilled with what I've read.*p*While reading "Ritual" I was suddenly looking at myself as a young child: at the annual picnic I would find some time to sit alone on the swing. I would get the swing going as high as it would go and then I would revel in the feel of the wind, the sound of the river, the birds - and I would begin to sing. Not formed songs, the words and tune would bubble up almost by themselves. I was truly at peace.*p*Although I often think of those happy picnic's I have never "relived" the feelings I had while swinging. It dawned on me that what I had experienced was Awen. That is what I am striving for again. *p*Taryn*br*