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On Friday, a couple of our Grove members had their baby very, very early (24 weeks). The girl is apparently doing quite well given the premature birth, but there's still a long way to go ( Read more... )

Things I have learned, having a pregnant wife:

1) It is so rarely about you, or your family. ( Read more... )

One of the really awesome things about the Dedicant Path stuff, especially the sort of structured journaling that people are doing with it these days, is that people are giving deep thought to some of their practices (or, more specifically, their lack of practice in certain areas) and developing new ideas based on those thoughts ( Read more... )

Freely the waters flow clean ( Read more... )

A year or so ago, I spent some time thinking about what it is we do as ADF Priests, and what it means to "advance" and move "higher" in the circles of study. Both words need their quotes because neither is really accurate, but they help make sense of things. And it's the inaccuracy that made me pause originally when I decided to do some work on my ( Read more... )

Over the past few years, I have noticed that even though my path is one of Druidry and nature worship, I tend to talk mostly about the Deities and the Ancestors; often, I speak less specifically and with less honor to the Spirits of Nature than I do to the other two Kindreds ( Read more... )