Last night's Yule rite was pretty awesome. Despite chasing kids around, running a lot of video cameras, and generally being exhausted at the end of the day, there were some serious highlights.

1. The live-stream when phenomenally. By the time we'd finished, it looks like over 500 people had viewed the stream (we'll know more when the analytics arrive ( Read more... )

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... )

Given everything going on over the last few weeks (key item: both Maggie and I had computer crashes at the same time in early April, so we had no reliably working machines in the house), I've been lacking in some of my online social stuff recently. I did, however, have some time at the shop to write a few prayers and put together some little easy- ( Read more... )

There is not much that is difficult about being a Priest: most of the time, it's a bit of studying, or a baby blessing, or a wedding. It's mostly things that bring you joy and memories you treasure ( 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... )

Last week, I sat down to watch a classic in American cinema: Buster Keaton's The General.

I've been working on a slient movie project for a while, and I really enjoy the simplicity of them. I've been watching my way through some classics, including Battleship Potemkin (which you simply must watch if you're into propaganda films, the Russian ( Read more... )

A comment by one of the members of Three Cranes Grove, ADF, got me thinking about what it means to be approaching the 10-year mark as a Grove. It certainly means something special. . . but how do we embrace, celebrate, and perpetuate our past in a meaningful way, while still looking to the future?

When I ported our Grove calendar over to Google ( Read more... )

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This morning, I spent a bit of time working through a new divination set: Divination by Crane. The set is (currently) 18 tiles, each with a silhouette of a crane on it in a different position. Some of the tiles might be too similar-looking (expect to see a picture of the set soon, but not yet, since I'm still trying to make it all work), but they ( Read more... )

Well, after 15 years in various IT positions, I have had to root my first box in order to complete a task ( Read more... )