At Summerland last weekend, I had the privilege of having two friends put me through a rite of passage that was, in many ways, just kinda perfect ( Read more... )

I had a great weekend at ConVocation. I got to spend some time with people I really like (really-realy), sell a lot of things (we very nearly sold out of everything we brought), talked to a couple of people about their student groups (and chat about my own experiences with our student group, OSU's PSA), and got some custom orders to boot (which ( Read more... )

Here's version one of the Crane Divination I mentioned a couple of weeks ago:


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The following was submitted as my yearly report regarding my work as an ADF Priest.

Over the past year, I have attended Trillium, Wellspring, Wisteria's Summer Solstice, ComFest, CraneFest, Midnight Flame, the ADF Clergy Retreat, and Harvest Nights. At Harvest Nights, I participated as part of the Traveling Clergy Program, providing a trance ( Read more... )

Over the weekend, I drove out to Otis, MA, for the Harvest Nights Gathering, the inaugural festival for Charter Oak Grove, ADF. They'd requested some ADF Priests via our Traveling Clergy Program (ADF Member's only link), and I was one of the lucky ones able to make it out. I have a couple of things to say about the drive:

• The first thing to say is ( Read more... )

So, recently I've been in progress on a few new projects, some of which I'd like to mention:

• A book on Druidry with a middle school or early high school reading level. This isn't just because sometimes I feel kinda slow to get concepts myself, and re-writing them in plain language helps with that, but mostly it's because we have a lot of high ( Read more... )

Last weekend, I sat down and wrote out what my sort of "ideal festival" would look like, if I got to set all the workshops, themes, and scheduling. The document ended up being split into two weekends (or, possibly one really long weekend) generally split into "Ritual Studies" and "Cosmology ( Read more... )

Here's my official, set-in-stone festival schedule for this year:

• Trillium (Apr. 14-17, Cross Junction, VA)
  
• Wellspring (May 26-30, Sherman, NY)
  
• ComFest (June 24-26, Columbus, OH)*
  
• Dublin Irish Festival (Aug 5-7, Dublin, OH)
  
• CraneFest (Sept 2-5, Columbus, OH)
  
• Midnight Flame (Sept 8-11, Bellaire, MI)
  

* - I have skylark913's wedding to do on June 25, so I won' ( Read more... )

As we work toward figuring out how to manage our first set of non-clergy initiatory Candidates within ADF, I've had a few thoughts, with a particular one I'd like to share ( Read more... )