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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... )

Recently, I added to my back-library of Jimmy Buffett albums by picking up Somewhere Over China. At this point, I own (or did own: one CD was stuck in an old CD player and I couldn't get it out) every Jimmy Buffett album that's out there, except You Had To Be There, which I may pick up next month or possibly early next year. My readers are free to ( Read more... )

I've been swallowed up by work recently, so please forgive me if I'm not overly responsive to things, but I have a short update on things in my life, some of which will be interesting and some of which won't.

• The Dublin Irish Festival has asked our Grove to provide the "Druid Service" on Sunday morning (Aug. 8) this year. They've never done a ( Read more... )

The past couple of weeks have been a bit crazy, leading up to last week's astounding, Herculean effort to complete projects at work. Between spending over a million dollars and getting the approval to do such, as well as update license files and other things around campus, it's been a bit crazy ( Read more... )

Clearly, a trip to the Ohio Historical Society is in order: Devo Memorabilia Now On Display At Ohio Historical CenterI'm going to be furiously working this weekend to complete my recommendations for the CTP work: so far, I've posted about roughly half the stuff I would like to recommend, and I'm just working through the complete reasoning for it at ( Read more... )

As I stood, preparing to give praise to the powers that have guarded and guided me since joining ADF, I did some math.

This ritual, the ritual completing the final requirement for ADF's Clergy Training Program, marked the end of nine years of training within ADF: a good Druidic number that you might think I had picked on purpose ( Read more... )

I arrived home, safe and sound from Trillium last night, unpacked, and eventually went to bed early. It was a pleasure to arrive both at the festival and then at home before nightfall this year.

seamus_mcnasty is rapidly becoming my favourite traveling companion: we come up with so many good ideas in the car or on airplanes . . . Most of which are still ( Read more... )

First, an awesome spiral light appeared in Norway the other night, causing panic and awesomeness. (Thanks to myrch, who observed that Odinists figured the gates of Valhalla were opening.)

Second, Buffett has a new album out. This is generally good, and it means that it's time to update the Jimmy Buffett Oracle with new lyrics. There are some ( Read more... )

It has been some time since I have posted. I apologize for the delay.

1. After years of checking my credit card balance monthly (and several months earlier this year of checking it almost daily as I was paying it off), I find that I feel odd if I don't check my account balance. . . though it is nice to open it up and find that the balance is still ( Read more... )