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Occasionally I wandered in where I was not wanted and gave truthful answers.
Sometimes I even did it deliberately. A little disruption now can prevent disaster later.

Touch of a Master - Updated

Didn't plan on it

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Terms of understanding

This is a page from the third version of Technopagan Yearnings. There are some formatting differences. Originally published at www.neowayland.com/C410060794/E20091226123859

I know what to call Book People now

This is one of those months I wish I could rip out and forget. I'm thinking things are going to get better by the 12th, but I am not totally sure.

Anyway, some things did go right. Early this morning while thinking about what may become chapter five, I solved a nagging problem that has been bothering me for months.

So working from "The story is not the journey," I've settled on terms.

You see, almost every word I used to describe the book people sounded pejorative. The one I've settled on isn't perfect, but it's a lot better. Here's what I'm using.

Sojourner - experienced faith, active, focused on their own journey.

Wonderer (not Wanderer) - Seeking, but no clear direction or method. "They hear the call, but they haven't found their path yet.

And finally…

Pilgrim - revealed faith, "the answers could be in the very next book." The fable happens to them as they seek to manifest the story in their own lives.

And no, this isn't necessarily about religion or faith.

This also has application to the profile notes I talked about before. I added the descriptions to =profile5 - special interests to use as I need.

Hmm, while I'm "in the neighborhood," I'd like to make another point. I have the same thing for Religion, Clubs or volunteer efforts, Politics, and Community. Let's look at one.

Clubs or volunteer efforts? -
Official? - Active? -
How? - Importance to person? -


Obviously I copy/paste as need. But what the heck do I mean by "official" and "active?"

Official is what they call themselves. "I'm a Rotarian" (there aren't as many as there used to be). Active is how much they put into it. It's the difference between a benchwarmer who is there for the social stuff and the one who stays late to help clean up. For some, the label is the most important part. Others may not even be "official" but they're more than willing to pitch in.

Posted: Sat - December 26, 2009 at 12:38 PM

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Solstice snow - updated

Enjoy yours but don't mess with mine

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I've got personality

Tuesday musings

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Charlie's story

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Sometimes a certain lady is sneaky

This is a page from the third version of Technopagan Yearnings. There are some formatting differences. Originally published at www.neowayland.com/C1370303428/E20091201142347

Determined to use my weaknesses against me

Playtime
As much as I try to avoid the whole group holiday thing, still there are female-type persons my age who know my weaknesses too well.

Like smoked turkey. And sweet potatoes. And fresh cranberry sauce. And fresh baked bread.

Smoked turkey…

Pardon me while I drool a bit.

Posted: Tue - December 1, 2009 at 02:23 PM

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The Red Book - First Impressions

Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies.
— usually attributed to Oliver Goldsmith
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Skeins

There is an old saying that the difficult truths are the only ones that must be told.
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Love

You're so determined to struggle nobly against dark forces that you can't see what is casting the shadow.
— NeoWayland
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Quick notes to a new seeker - Updated

It's what brings us together

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Bonewits update

A pagan take on another holiday classic.

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Before Our Worlds Touch

It's not quite... ancestor worship

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October - updated

Technically not nude, but close.

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Thinkum-a-giggle

Just doing my part to bring semi-merriment to the internet

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How to convince me you're a poseur before I've finished the first page of the preface of your book - UPDATED

Fog

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Packing away the memory

Another wandering meditation, this time on the crowd that lives inside of you

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Something I did not know

Places on the Wheel

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What's the difference between a ponytail and a beartail?

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Just like clockwork

Fundamental principles

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Briefly, another thinkum

Accepting responsibility and doing the honorable thing

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Crossing the horizon

Some days I want to stay in and never come out

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Story from a dream

Part of an IM conversation I had with Juliaki tonight. You might find it interesting.

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Nature's touch

Wading through the mess

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Forget the red pill, go for the green drink

Time marches on and the wheel of the year turns

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Bittersweet honor

This is a page from the third version of Technopagan Yearnings. There are some formatting differences. Originally published at www.neowayland.com/C550866538/E20090803073939

Unexpected and delightful


I had visitors over the weekend. Unexpected ones, but delightful ones all the same.

An old friend and her husband and her 14 year old son dropped in on Wednesday.

She and I had dated and slept together, well, at least fifteen years ago I guess. Probably closer to eighteen. Guess I am getting older. She has aged remarkably well. Originally from Haiti, her lovely accent and marvelous skin color triggered some great memories. Oh, and her scent, can't forget that. If she hadn't married and promised to be a one-and-only, I might have tried again for old times sake.

Her husband is well educated and knows how to use that brain of his. I heartily approve of her choice.

Their boy shows every sign of being just as smart as his parents. So of course he asked if I used to date his mom.

I told him yes.

Then we wandered into one of those awkward social areas that teens (and especially BRIGHT teens) love to nose out. And I could tell that his dad was laughing at his wife and I.

The kid asked if I wanted to sleep with his mom again. Actually he said fuck his mom, I'm sure he was going for the shock value. It's one of the few times I have seen that particular lady embarrassed, and I had the feeling that I missed the first act in this particular drama.

Deep breath. Only one way through this.

My feelings were irrelevant, I told him. My personal beliefs mean that The Lady Always Chooses. She was in a monogamous marriage to his dad. And that is where it stood. What he suggested wasn't even a possibility because her honor was more important to me than my own.

At that point I looked at her. She winked because she knew me well enough to know what I might do next.

In fact, I told the young man, he should be proud of his mom because she had honor and obviously loved his father. Just because she could be an insatiable fuck didn't mean she would make the Two-Backed Beast with just anyone. She chose to fuck me, but she chose to love her husband. And I told the boy that I thought he dishonored both his parents by trying to put his mom on the spot like that.

That was Friday.

Things went much better after that. I spent much of the time trying my darnedest to bend his brain. But his parents had already made things pretty flexible.

This morning, the young man proved he had honor after all. He apologized to his mother, his father, and then to me (which I didn't expect). And then he cooked breakfast.

A few more like him and this world might have some hope after all.

Thanks to Coyote for the lessons.

Posted: Mon - August 3, 2009 at 07:39 AM

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“We are the Pagans who have moved on”

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Quarter Moons and Semi-Truths

I want to choose my own

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Taproot: Open the Way

Thinking by blogging
On stage I make love to twenty-five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
— Janis Joplin
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Relics of faith

“Our mythical places series continues, and this week Mike Rugnetta is talking about some stories that revolve around mountains. Mountains loom large in human stories, not least because mountains are, well, large. So ascend with us to the lofty peaks of The Ten Thousand Treasure Mountain in China, and Mount Fuji in Japan.”

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Lightning and ritual

Paganism should spread through experience and art, not theology. The theology comes later, if it comes.
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A little slice of mind

Accept or not as you choose, that doesn't make it less true

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So does my tool fetish
really qualify as a fetish?

Making technology sing

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Tool fetish

Organizing my books

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Front door and back door

When I'm stressed, I remember

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Snap out of it!

Master the discipline or be mastered by the victimhood.
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Groups

I don't bow unless I respect

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Taking full measure

Fiction and nonfiction collide and spawn in my semi-fevered brain

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Technowhizzes I have known

Calming rituals in my sanctum

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Revisiting writing the book

If it’s bad when the People of the Book do it, then why on Earth is it a good idea when neopagans do it?

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Bringing it home

Bone, Heart, Thought, Deed, and Spirit, I choose to honor those who touched my life

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How to be Pagan for a day

Bone, Heart, Thought, Deed, and Spirit, I choose to honor these people this season

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The Day After Earth Day

Sometimes it looks like I might know what I am doing and saying

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Dream a little dream for me

An internet quiz to tell how you think

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So what's a Technopagan anyway?
And what do they yearn for?

NeoWayland studies what he doesn't agree with

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Moody

Friends in dark places

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Look out for the stale jokes

Rattling the windows, singing in anticipation

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Feeling

Twice a year it comes and fills the sky

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Of gods and men
(updated)

Worth mentioning with some of the latest posts

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Wisdom and the Three Percent

Emotional vs Rational Discussions

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Magick in the modern world

When someone starts talking about THE truth, it's to exclude the thoughts and ideas they find uncomfortable.
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Chapter One

Earn their respect

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Revisiting your truths

This is a page from the third version of Technopagan Yearnings. There are some formatting differences. Originally published at www.neowayland.com/C1982366546/E20090210152635

Accepting responsibility and doing the honorable thing

I would more easily believe that two Yankee professors would lie than that stones would fall from heaven.
     — Thomas Jefferson in an 1808 letter to Daniel Salmon

We certainly are not to deny whatever we cannot account for. A thousand phenomena present themselves daily which we cannot explain, but where facts are suggested, bearing no analogy with the laws of nature as yet known to us, their verity needs proofs proportioned to their difficulty. A cautious mind will weigh well the opposition of the phenomenon to everything hitherto observed, the strength of the testimony by which it is supported, and the errors and misconceptions to which even our senses are liable. It may be very difficult to explain how the stone you possess came into the position in which it was found. But is it easier to explain how it got into the clouds from whence it is supposed to have fallen? The actual fact however is the thing to be established, and this I hope will be done by those whose situations and qualifications enable them to do it.
     — Thomas Jefferson in a later letter to Daniel Salmon, admitting that he doesn't have all the answers
There are reasons that TJ is one of my personal heroes.

And yes, this is a very big hint to a certain reader.

Posted: Tue - February 10, 2009 at 03:26 PM

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The Robot vs. the trees

Look before you leap

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Sometimes the sad songs do help

Looking at portrayal of Pagans in horror films

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A question for those who read this blog

“”The

Approaches

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NeoNote — When the universe has it's way with you

Feeling the energy

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Systematically

Frustrated by unspoken expectations

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The right thingamajig for the job

Pagan stuff you didn't think was Pagan.

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