I should paste over my essay pieces from my new Discussion group, arrange them, poke holes in them, turn them upside down....  The group is over on GaiaOnline, where I also maintain a couple of avatars and play games, the place where I have found that joining someone else's group usually leads to disagreements with the bookish pagans.  So, I have ( Read more... )

A meme over on seaivy 's journal caught my eye so I thought I would try my hand....

1)What author do you own the most books by?
My books are scattered, some in boxes, so it is hard to tell....Anne McCaffrey stands out as do Tony Hillerman, Michael Connelly, James Patterson and Andre Norton.

2) What book do you own the most copies of?
I don't ( Read more... )

As might have been predicted the exchange detailed in my previous entry probably ended badly.  I got tag-teamed by two fundamentalist reconstructionists who then got the guildmaster/site moderator involved.  It devolved, in one more round of posts, to people citing something out of context, people getting offended at 'implications' and people ( Read more... )

I severed yet one more pagan tie a couple days ago. I had long been the list-owner for one group I used to lead rituals for, a job that kind of got dumped in my lap in a strange sequence of events. Yes, the truth is stranger than fiction, been there and lived to tell the tale! People have come and gone from this group but it has long been the ( Read more... )

I can't say that anything out of the ordinary is happening....the plants grow, the shrubs and trees are blossoming, there are work issues and the family keeps on with their usual activities. My son has gotten a lot hours at his job, probably a good thing since we're looking at sending him to SUNY Binghamton in the fall. On top of University-level ( Read more... )

It is the time of year that I am the custodian of many small pots full of incipient sprouts, where I am babying tiny green things with just the right temperature, light and watering technique each prefers.  All this before I thrust them out into a cruel world full of thunderstorms, bugs and variable sun.  The peppers all came up, all varieties of ( Read more... )

Today's lesson, along the path, takes me away from those bigger questions and puts me squarely back in the Now:

Human beings constantly struggle to live in the moment. We’re either obsessing over the past (”Gee, life would’ve been different if I’d only joined the Peace Corps.”), or obsessing over the future (”Gee, I hope my 401K holds up”). We ( Read more... )

I have been dancing around this topic ever since the Discussion Group went three rounds (and more) on it.  The self-made group has no template to follow and, wanting to avoid that 'making it up as we go along' feel to circle, pagans, especially look for justification, validation, attachment.  Of course, I think, they also end up with the sort of ( Read more... )

I have delayed writing about this topic - I have let it rattle around in my head until all the pieces have come to rest ( Read more... )

None of the peppers are up, yet - at least as of last night.  A few more pansy sprouts have appeared in the pots already on the windowsill; only one of those has no occupants - I need to put a few more in ( Read more... )