Gloria Withalm

Have a wonderful #SummerSolstice — Blessed #Litha & Blessed #Yule https://www.instagram.com/p/CQV3YdJFtxu/?utm_medium=tumblr

#HappyJuneteenth, and thank you #OpalLee for your persistence 💜. https://www.instagram.com/p/CQS8MEgFE19/?utm_medium=tumblr

Still having my very personal program to learn going out again: “training-and-treats”, today at the Biergartl in Vienna, Stadtpark. Asparagus Tagliatelle – it was delicious 😋 https://www.instagram.com/p/CP33PuplwJo/?utm_medium=tumblr

Lucky me — home from my second jab = fully vaxxed, and so far no side effects 🤞🏻… Soon, life can start again 👍🏻👏🏻💜 #VaccinesHelpSaveLives #GetYourShotsToday https://www.instagram.com/p/COdPFrAle-Q/?igshid=eh1ugsa960ba

Whatever you feel like celebrating today, have a wonderful #MayDay, a #BlessedBeltane, a #HappyLabourDay … or just a great Saturday and a lovely weekend. 💚🌱🌼🌷 https://www.instagram.com/p/COVBhahFF2X/?igshid=9yf7b8dr2xt2

By now you certainly know that I’m a huge fan of A Discovery of Witches (both the books and the show). Last night I finally got my DVD box of season2 and had to start watching it again (have watched it earlier this year on Sky) and will continue tonight — love it 💜. Just one small critique: Hey you guys at @dazzlermedia: again no extras ? ☹️ @adiscoveryofwitchestv #allsoulstrilogy https://www.instagram.com/p/CN7aDmuFpn0/?igshid=z1e898vlupk2

Well, second year of a somehow different Easter (some countries have strict lockdown regulations for this weekend). Let’s make the best of it… So if you celebrate it: a very Happy Easter to you all and to your friends and families. Have a wonderful weekend and may the Easter Bunny be extra generous with his treats… 🐣🐑🐔🐇🌿🐓🐥 #HappyEaster2021 https://www.instagram.com/p/CNLGOy_lkNk/?igshid=bwgjwfa60ha6

Monday was my bday, and despite … it was great — many phone calls and messages and posts, starting in the morning; afternoon and evening I had dinner with a dear friend, a second friend came on Tuesday and another friend will visit next Monday. And a lot of gifts found their way (everything, except for the Easter Tree), even two (!) with cute kittens 😽. — A big thank you and a hug to all my friends 🤗 https://www.instagram.com/p/CM4uE96lwyC/?igshid=b4d3umq1jt52

One lucky girl here 😄. My collection of the hardcover editions of All Souls books by @debharkness is almost complete, just I got #TheBookOfLife (Viking): used but SIGNED. Now only #ShadowOfNight (Headline) is missing (I have #TimesConvert, it’s at a friend’s = new AST fan 👏🏻). https://www.instagram.com/p/CMiZn62FCim/?igshid=10m4mdeh6acac

Wish you all a Happy St Patrick’s Day 🇮🇪💚☘️💚☘️💚☘️💚☘️💚🇮🇪 be sure to wear and/or eat something green and drink a nice Guinness — at home! #StPatricksDay https://www.instagram.com/p/CMf4nOQF9gE/?igshid=wq4963stttfe

March 8 is the #InternationalWomensDay — let’s think of everything we have achieved and everything still waiting… #HappyWomensDay2021 #IWF2021 However, in another 10 days there is also the 110th anniversary this day was observed in many European countries including the Austro-Hungarian Empire: “In Vienna, in the first European celebration of International Women’s Day on March 18, 1911, women marched around the Ringstrasse”. The *Wiener Bilder* published pictures of the demonstration with allegedly 20,000 participants including some men (vol.16, no.12, March 22 1911, p.9), even the *Humoristische Blätter* reacted to this event and printed a caricature (vol. 38, no. 12, 19 March 1911, p. 5) [cf. https://www.onb.ac.at/forschung/ariadne-frauendokumentation/frauen-waehlet/frauen-fordern-das-wahlrecht-1848-bis-1918/heraus-mit-dem-frauenwahlrecht & https://frauenmachengeschichte.at/frauenwahlrecht/] https://www.instagram.com/p/CMIk0tZFfkH/?igshid=342sy0rgl0n9

Today is a special day for my Welsh friends, but we all gladly celebrate with them. Enjoy daffodils, wear leek and a have a #DyddGwylDewiHapus / #HappySaintDavidsDay Not to forget that the best friend and cousin of our Gallowglass in Deborah Harkness’s #ShadowOfNight is the Welshman Davy Hancock, Sir Dafydd ap Llewelyn ap Hywel. https://www.instagram.com/p/CL3_LqflpPC/?igshid=32inyodf9hlj

Corra has landed. Today I got these two artworks by @KarinStar I *had* to order as soon as I saw them: one from her latest series of original pictures = Forspell — Diana meeting her familiar Corra, the firedrake, and the linocut print “Courage and Magic” (plus a wonderful holographic sticker with the “double ouroboros” of the de Clermont snake and Corra) — LOVE IT, thank you. @allsoulsillustrated https://www.instagram.com/p/CLurHlGlxkL/?igshid=1diy6y7u77dkh

Happy Purim to all of you who celebrate it and your friends & family. Have fun wear for once other masks,, eat, drink, enjoy your Hamantaschen etc. #HappyPurim #ChagPurimSameach https://www.instagram.com/p/CLuc4_oFE08/?igshid=19h7hfhnr790m

Here’s one happy girl — received my order of the beautiful bookmark featuring Corra and Diana’s weaver’s cords and a knot with nine crossings (Maryse Fritzsch / @perpetua.felicitas) and again a pair of lovely earrings. Thank you, Maryse, that was really quick (love your new double ouroboros seal). https://www.instagram.com/p/CLnDie7lVgV/?igshid=t6aakemkmk5b

Happy Valentine to you all — maybe for some it won’t be the Valentine they used to have with their loved ones, but try to make the best of it, and – if there isn’t anyone to do it — treat yourself to something special for Valentine #HappyValentine [Anonymous (French, 18th century). Early valentine, or lover's gift, ca. 1750–1800. Vellum, hand painted, 3 15/16 x 8 7/8 in. (22.5 x 10 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1984 (1984.1164.69)] https://www.instagram.com/p/CLRfA-tl5O1/?igshid=1bvesskq35wa6

Happy Chinese New Year — today, the #YearOfTheMetalOx begins. To all of you who celebrate it (and all of you who usually don’t — never mind, let’s celebrate every feast day!): may it be happy and prosperous #HappyChineseNewYear2021 https://www.instagram.com/p/CLMTvLOlrsO/?igshid=tvcpp9t8fxys