Nearly eight years ago, I sat in romandruid's living room across from a guy who had done a silly thing: he'd read the ADF Preceptor's quarterly report and decided to volunteer for a job in ADF! I'll be honest, I thought that those reports that romandruid had been writing were going out into the ether and just being ignored by everyone. How fortunately wrong I was ( Read more... )

I'm in the process of working through the last of the notes so I can ship a summary to the ADF Clergy list about what went down and who got volunteered for what at last weekend's retreat, but one particular thing that my notes never can capture is the remarkable number of side conversations we have as Priests about Our Druidry, and the fellowship ( Read more... )

Over the secular holiday, I received a very nice note from an ADF member regarding my DP Wheel of the Year publication and how much it has helped him direct his path over time. This got me thinking (well, technically it sent me into work-mode), and over the course of about 48 hours, I had put together and published a new book through Lulu ( Read more... )

You know, in many ways, the initiation I went through changed the game I was playing, deepening it and setting new rules. I like to talk about Huizinga's notion of Homo Ludens as vastly superior to Eliade's Homo Religiosis, but I find myself encountering Huizinga's theories on a very real and intimate level in my life ( Read more... )

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