Danna D. Schmidt

Master Life-Cycle Celebrant®  
Ordained Wedding Officiant  
Funerals/Memorials Specialist  
Certified Grief Educator/Tender  
ADEC-Certified Thanatologist®  

Category Archives: Seasonal Rites

Of Love, Lent + Lunar Offerings.

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A friend and I went out to celebrate Fat Tuesday the other night and we couldn’t help but smile at how Valentine’s Day, Mardi Gras, and the Lunar New Year bumped up against each other in the décor at this popular Cajun eatery in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District. Valentine’s Day. Ash Wednesday. Chinese New Year. I… Continue Reading

All Hail the Solstice

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The whole year ‘round, from my front porch (except for days-on-end of snow clouds, rain clouds) I watch the sun set behind every bump and dip of the mountain skyline, from north of Mt. Eddy to south of Castle Crags.  Tonight, a few hours before summer solstice, I stand just outside my front door and… Continue Reading

New Year Rituals

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Labyrinth at Grace Episcopal Church on Bainbridge Island, WA Here we are…it’s January! These past couple of years, the early days and weeks of the year have been all-consuming for me, as I’ve juggled work and time-sensitive projects. But I don’t let that stop me from the joy and fulfillment I get from enacting my January rituals, because the entire month of January has… Continue Reading

Summer SOULstice

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Ah….blessed changing of the season’s guard! The year has turned ’round yet again while many of us were busy making other plans. Summer Solstice holds such mystique and never more so than when we can inch ourselves northerly to experience the full long light of this day. My fondest Summer Solstice memory was getting to participate… Continue Reading

Here Comes the Sun

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   “We like the things that summer brings. It brings the sun. It brings the heat. It brings the things we like to eat.”Alice Low, Summer Summer is coming, summer is coming! We feel it in our bones, we see it in the sky and we know it to be so in our restless, vagabond hearts. The sun has been… Continue Reading

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