I ran across this list of facts about life in our fair country ( Read more... )

I realized today that it's been a while since Zach was on my mind. I also realized that didn't make me sad or give me a feeling of loss. It would seem that I've finally moved on. It's been almost exactly a year since our last night together, so it's probably a bit overdue. While reflecting on this I think I've come up with what finally did it ( Read more... )

I've neglected my observation of Kyklos Apollon for the past several weeks, so I was doubly determined that I would do it up this week. Jay was home when the time came around, so initially I just did a short purifying of miasma, a greeting of Hestia, and burned a bay leaf for Apollon. About an 45 minutes after sunrise Delphi time Jay left, so I ( Read more... )

I've started to add veneration of Artemis to personal practice. It's probably overdue. She seems to fit as a missing piece of a puzzle for which I still haven't figured out the picture yet. What's one more God at this point anyway?

While reading the other day, I had a rather obvious realization. With the exception of Sobek and Hestia, all of my personal Gods have a direct relationship with Persephone. I'm not sure how I've never noticed that.

Online and IRL I've been coming across a lot of talk amongst pagans concerning the impending decline and disappearance of Christianity. Many of them seem to be convinced that Christianity will meet it's twilight within a few generations. To that end I decided to crunch the numbers on that issue. Let's assume for the sake of discussion that all ( Read more... )

For most of my youth I volunteered with at risk youth and teens.

In my college days I was a militant political anarchist. I still hold many of those beliefs, but nihilism set in at some point through the years.

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When I was young, I played violin in a chamber ensemble. When my hearing lose became so pronounced that I couldn't hear much of the violin's range, I tried to pick up the cello of which I could hear more. I was too deaf at that point to make the switch effectively and abandoned it. After the surgery to restore my hearing, I didn't pick the ( Read more... )