Hello, Livejournal!  Just a quick note to say I'm still here (not that anyone really cared where I've been, but hey, work with me ( Read more... )

  We now return you to your regularly scheduled DP work :)

When I consider the virtue of Integrity, I just immediately want to paraphrase the 80's band The Fixx, from the song “One Thing Leads to Another”: Do what you say; say what you mean.

This for me pretty much sums up what it means to be a person with integrity. If you say you're going to do ( Read more... )

  Growing up as a Catholic, I seem to recall thinking of “pious” as a descriptor of a particular sort of person. This saint was pious, or that priest is pious. Piety was something reserved for a select few. We the masses might strive for piety, but we'd most likely fail. Most wouldn't even try ( Read more... )

When contemplating the virtue of wisdom, the phrase that kept coming to mind was akin to “wisdom results from experience”. I think there is a tendency to sometimes equate wisdom with intelligence. This is not true. Of course, that’s not to say that wisdom does not require intelligence. Being smart and wise would probably not be a bad thing. ( Read more... )

I'll begin by posting my essays for the 9 core Virtues held by ADF. This is my first.

In my younger days, when I moved out of my parents' house, I asked several friends to give me a hand. Fortunately, they answered the call. So they lent me their time and muscles to help me move into my new place. Traditionally, when such events are finished, the ( Read more... )

HI there!  My name's Rob, and I intend for this to be a record of my Dedicant Path work done for Ar nDraiocht Fein: A Druid Fellowship (ADF).  I've been a member of ADF for about a year and a half.  I officially started the DP work at Samhain 2010, when I took an oath to have it completed by Samhain 2012.  For those of you keeping score, that would ( Read more... )