I have decided that this journal needs a more specific purpose than the one I have given it. At any rate, I don't seem to be using it very much at present. I hope that will change.

I'm going to make this a place to talk about dreams and story ideas. As I'm rather protective of my ideas, I'm going to have to lock this journal. All entries after this ( Read more... )

I just came across this link on a Pagan/Wiccan forum I recently began to frequent.

http://wicca.com/celtic/wicca/christian.htm

Wow. I was impressed. Somebody out there gets it, and realizes they don't have to compromise what they believe in order to get it.

I am currently working on a story with a villain that I love and hate almost as much as my heroine does, and I, as a writer, know that the story does not permit me to redeem him. To this end I have been reading back through every Dragonlance book I have that deals with Raistlin Majere (my villain is partially based on his character). The italicized ( Read more... )

from darkness to darkness
my voice echoes in the emptiness.
from this world to the next
my voice cries with life.
from darkness to darkness i shout
beneath my feet, all is made firm.
time that flows
hold in your course.
because by fate even the gods are cast down.
weep ye all with me.

Raistlin's spell to open the Portal into the Abyss. Never noticed how ( Read more... )

Okay, I have finally added everyone to my friends list that I thought might be interested in keeping up with this journal. If I missed anybody, let me know.

Namaste.

"'True believers' have been the cause of untold suffering over the ages. Folk who find in their limited experience and knowledge all the answers to the myriad of life’s mysteries often are tempted to demand such certainty from others."

A quote from an article by Rick Mayfield. This one, as a matter of fact.

He's talking about any and all religions, ( Read more... )

We have a pair of rabbit ears sitting on top of our TV, which provide us with a few stations. We basically get the news, PBS, a couple of Spanish stations, a couple of Christian stations, and some odds and ends. PBS is having an audio mix-up of some kind right now, so I was flipping around looking for something else. I happened across a fellow on ( Read more... )

Or rather, a needed separation of matters spiritual and mundane. This is an area dedicated solely to philosophical and theological musings and questions, while red_wyvern will be a record of more day-to-day affairs, like babies and husbands and bad traffic ( Read more... )