Photo: Philippe Matsas / Opale (Fr) KATHERINE NEVILLE’S Sagittarius Newsletter December 2, 2019 The Centaur of Volos Project In the early 1990s, due to my historic research into world mythology, (or perhaps due to my swashbuckling adv
Katherine at a Hallowe’en book signing KATHERINE NEVILLE’S Toussaint Newsletter November 1, 2019 Toussaint-Samhain My favorite holiday is the three-day period called Samhain in the Celtic calendar: October 31, November 1-2
Katherine in Brittany KATHERINE NEVILLE’SAssumption Day NewsletterAugust 15, 2019 Here I am in Brittany, where they celebrate today’s date with great festivities, as the ‘Assumption of the Virgin Mary into Heaven.’ Mary: The Lad
KATHERINE NEVILLE’S Japonisme Newsletter June 21, 2019 Exposition Universelle Paris, 1867 Japan under the Shoguns was isolated from the world for over 250 years, from the early 1600s — and then emerged into the world at just the right
Katherine in Santa Fe KATHERINE NEVILLE’S Merry May Day Newsletter May 1, 2019 From Maia to Mary Today is the date that lies between spring equinox and summer solstice, one of the eight Celtic Fire Festivals&n
Katherine in Kyoto KATHERINE NEVILLE’SCherry Blossom Equinox NewsletterMarch 21, 2019 Cherry Blossom Time! In 1912, the Japanese government gave 3000 cherry trees to our nation’s capital, which were planted around the Tidal Basi
Neville at de Young Museum, San Francisco KATHERINE NEVILLE’SSaturnalia NewsletterDecember 17, 2018 Saturnalia Saturnalia, the festival of the Roman god Saturn, and based upon a more ancient Greek and Egyptian traditions for this dark
Katherine in Tokyo KATHERINE NEVILLE’SJapanese Journey NewsletterJune 29, 2018 Yin-Yang When I first rescued the Japanese house, created in 1965 by the legendary Japanese potter, Teruo Hara, the place had been in disrepair, vandalized, and