2009
Touch of a Master - Updated
Tuesday, 29Dec2009 Filed in: studies⭐︎ quotes & thinkums
Terms of understanding
Saturday, 26Dec2009 Filed in: sojourners
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.
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.
Solstice snow - updated
Tuesday, 22Dec2009 Filed in: celebrations & passages
Charlie's story
Tuesday, 01Dec2009 Filed in: studies
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Read More...Sometimes a certain lady is sneaky
Tuesday, 01Dec2009 Filed in: playtime
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
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.
Like smoked turkey. And sweet potatoes. And fresh cranberry sauce. And fresh baked bread.
Smoked turkey…
Pardon me while I drool a bit.
The Red Book - First Impressions
Tuesday, 24Nov2009 Filed in: studies
“Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies.”
Skeins
Thursday, 19Nov2009 Filed in: beliefs⭐︎ philosophy
❝There is an old saying that the difficult truths are the only ones that must be told.❞— NeoWayland, Discipline, the Modern Pagan, and power from victimhood
Love
❝You're so determined to struggle nobly against dark forces that you can't see what is casting the shadow.❞— NeoWayland
Quick notes to a new seeker - Updated
Tuesday, 03Nov2009 Filed in: practicals
Bonewits update
Wednesday, 28Oct2009 Filed in: celebrations & passages⭐︎ Befores
Thinkum-a-giggle
Tuesday, 20Oct2009 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
How to convince me you're a poseur before I've finished the first page of the preface of your book - UPDATED
Wednesday, 14Oct2009 Filed in: studies⭐︎ quotes & thinkums
Packing away the memory
Wednesday, 07Oct2009 Filed in: modern adult pagans
Something I did not know
Thursday, 01Oct2009 Filed in: tellus⭐︎ celebrations & passages
What's the difference between a ponytail and a beartail?
Thursday, 01Oct2009 Filed in: playtime⭐︎ practicals
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Read More...Briefly, another thinkum
Wednesday, 09Sep2009 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
Crossing the horizon
Tuesday, 01Sep2009 Filed in: tellus
Story from a dream
Part of an IM conversation I had with Juliaki tonight. You might find it interesting.
Read More...Forget the red pill, go for the green drink
Tuesday, 04Aug2009 Filed in: entertainment⭐︎ philosophy
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.
“We are the Pagans who have moved on”
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Read More...Taproot: Open the Way
“On stage I make love to twenty-five thousand people; and then I go home alone.”Read More...— Janis Joplin
Relics of faith
Tuesday, 30Jun2009 Filed in: studies
“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.”
Read More...Lightning and ritual
Friday, 26Jun2009 Filed in: beliefs⭐︎ rite & ritual
“Paganism should spread through experience and art, not theology. The theology comes later, if it comes.”Read More...— Chas Clifton, Looking at Your Polis as a Pagan
A little slice of mind
Thursday, 18Jun2009 Filed in: studies
So does my tool fetish
really qualify as a fetish?
really qualify as a fetish?
Thursday, 18Jun2009 Filed in: practicals⭐︎ rite & ritual
Tool fetish
Tuesday, 16Jun2009 Filed in: practicals⭐︎ manifest
Front door and back door
Thursday, 11Jun2009 Filed in: tellus
Snap out of it!
❝Master the discipline or be mastered by the victimhood.❞— NeoWayland, Discipline, the Modern Pagan, and power from victimhood
Groups
Tuesday, 02Jun2009 Filed in: modern adult pagans⭐︎ quotes & thinkums
Technowhizzes I have known
Tuesday, 12May2009 Filed in: practicals
Revisiting writing the book
Thursday, 07May2009 Filed in: 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?
Read More...Bringing it home
Monday, 04May2009 Filed in: beliefs
Bone, Heart, Thought, Deed, and Spirit, I choose to honor those who touched my life
Read More...How to be Pagan for a day
Thursday, 30Apr2009 Filed in: beliefs⭐︎ celebrations & passages
Bone, Heart, Thought, Deed, and Spirit, I choose to honor these people this season
Read More...The Day After Earth Day
Thursday, 23Apr2009 Filed in: tellus
So what's a Technopagan anyway?
And what do they yearn for?
And what do they yearn for?
Tuesday, 24Mar2009 Filed in: modern adult pagans
Look out for the stale jokes
Thursday, 19Mar2009 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
Magick in the modern world
❝When someone starts talking about THE truth, it's to exclude the thoughts and ideas they find uncomfortable.❞— NeoWayland, Quarter Moons and Semi-Truths
Revisiting your truths
Tuesday, 10Feb2009 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
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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.”There are reasons that TJ is one of my personal heroes.
— Thomas Jefferson in a later letter to Daniel Salmon, admitting that he doesn't have all the answers
And yes, this is a very big hint to a certain reader.
Sometimes the sad songs do help
Tuesday, 03Feb2009 Filed in: entertainment
A question for those who read this blog
Saturday, 17Jan2009 Filed in: book
NeoNote — When the universe has it's way with you
Saturday, 10Jan2009 Filed in: practicals⭐︎ NeoNotes
Systematically
Thursday, 08Jan2009 Filed in: practicals
The right thingamajig for the job
Sunday, 04Jan2009 Filed in: practicals⭐︎ manifest
