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Life Update and a Return of the Journal
Well, currently I have a short term job and I’m earning some money. I stress the “some”, it’s not a lot of money, and it’s not for a long time. It is enough to pay the bills we have and get things back.
However, I’m getting back into Wicca/Religion. I realized recently that I have outlets for my Joy side, my roleplaying geek person, and for just general myself, but nothing for my Daven/Priest person. So I’m talking to Lisa McSherry about joining her and her coven, and I’m starting to write more.
I have five reviews to post to you guys, just as soon as I can. They are SO done, I just have to upload it all and then you can all read what I think of these books. I have to tell you that these reviews are like two years old at this point. I’ve delayed and had them sitting on my bookshelf for some time, and now I need to post them. I promised to do these, and so I’m doing it.
Time to come clean
Well, before you all read it through the various outlets that are linked here (meaning Twitter), I thought I would inform my readers directly about several things you all might find questionable. I do this in the spirit of brotherhood and necessity that many of you might find close to your hearts.
And if I lose readers, I bear you no hard feelings.
I’ve kept a large segment of my life away from here. I have done this mostly because I felt that (first off) it was no one’s business except mine, and (second off) that it really didn’t matter as it was not relevant to my spirituality which is what I talk about here.
However, various things have occurred in my life that has forced a merging of those segments of my life, and an intermixing of them until in many cases, the lines are completely blurred.
Two new Reviews
Okay, got two new reviews up on the Journal.
We also broke 100,000 unique visitors. I know that if I counted the pageloads, I’d probably be on several million by now. But I decided that the more important number is the people who visit. So it only counts one IP address per day. So anyone who visits gets their IP recorded for 24 hours, and a visit from the same location doesn’t count. Kinda stinks when it hits a firewall and everyone behind that firewall is counted as one hit.
Also I have to get the rest of the Witches Pyramid up. But things are happening here that make life “interesting”.
Still no job, but I’m going back to school which makes things even better.
Life, or something like it
Well, time to post a new entry.
This one is going to be more about me than about the Journal. You may have noticed that there has been a lack of posts lately, and a lack of articles. There are two reasons for that. The first reason is because I am writing for Rending the Veil and that’s taking a lot of my creative energies and the other reason is because Life intruded hard.
I lost my job. The only person who gets “credit” for this is myself since I was an idiot and had emotions when they didn’t want me to have them. And now I’m looking for work.
It’s hard since I have no paper to prove what I know, so I’m also going to be returning to school. Which means that I’m going to be having a lot less time on my hands. I’m also going to have a lot less money, so anything you can spare will be appreceiated.
Blessings
I’m sick as a dog and I need the good thoughts of you all. Please send what you can.
I am a Priest (poetry)
I am a Priest
It is up to me to present the Gods
to those who may not know Them.
I speak for the Gods
to others and share Their words
to those who cannot hear.
I am a Priest.
It is up to me to represent
my Gods in the best manner I can.
I speak with Their authority
I move through my life
and I am Them on this Earth.
I am a Priest.
I have no excuses
when my Gods ask me where I went wrong.
I cannot say “I did not know,
“I did not hear, and I cut a corner.”
I should know better than that.
I am a Priest.
I have a connection to the Gods
that others may not have.
I can hear Them and They comfort me
when I despair and when I hurt
I am embraced in Their arms.
Problem Resolved
Okay, the problem I was having with the site was resolved. It appeared that someone hacked the routers that contain the addresses of the pages and changed where “davensjournal.com” pointed to.
It would be like someone breaking into the post office and changing the address cards for me in one place. All the mail that went through that post office would get directed to another place, but all the rest would come in fine. Unfortunately it was my “local postoffice” so my mail went wrong too.
I asked my webhost to push down the correct addresses to the routers again (just like she was setting up a new domain for me) and she did so. That seems to have fixed the problem, so the site is back up and working right again.
A "Real" Post
Conventional wisdom says that it’s impossible to write down the “real” experiences one has in the Circle. Basically I think this is a cop out.
It is possible to write it down, but the problem faced by those authors is that to write these kinds of things down makes it look as if the author is delusional or just making it all up.
So, in the interest of sharing this all with you and proving that it’s possible to write those kinds of experiences down, I’m going to do so in this blog. Take it on faith that this actually happened and that it was a life changing experience for me.
It started off normally enough, I sat down to meditate. I had been doing so for as long as I could remember, but I never really had anything happen during that state. Oh, there were some dreams, there was one time that I thought Satan had asked me to become his minion. But those are passed off easily enough.
Some news
Well, things have been interesting.
Back at the end of April, I put up a post begging the gods for a break, some sort of help since things had been going wrong for some time.
A week later, I put up a post of Thanksgiving (in this case meaning literally “to give thanks”).
Now, on Memorial Day in the United States, less than two days away from the end of the month, I’m ready to explain why.
The bad luck I have been operating under for some time now has finally broken. I don’t know what happened, if it was my plea, if it was you all and your well wishes for me and mine, or if it was simply the wheel of life coming around again, but things have been going better lately.
In order:
The Pagan Man
Well, it arrived.
Isaac Bonewits recently wrote a book called The Pagan Man. He contacted me to request permission to include “It Takes A Real Man” in that book, since it fit with the theme of the book.
It’s been out for some time now, and I wrote him and got a copy.
Wow. I’m in print. I’m REFERENCED! WOOHOO!!! Right there on page 213. Cool!
I’m planning on going through it and writing a review soon, but it may take some time.
There’s my site, right along with Isaac’s own site, and Deborah Lipp’s site (his ex-wife). Wow, I’m in such exalted company….
