It started out simply enough. Closing ritual for ConVocation was over, Sarenth had planned to do a rune reading for me, all our other friends started making plans to eat lunch out and invited us along. It sounded great, and we figured we’d just do the runecasting in the restaurant after eating and getting more […]
Category Archives: Religion
Another Con Is Over
I am the one outside the circle, keeping the rhythm for the dancers. I am the one wandering around the dance floor, never quite joining in. I am the one laughing out loud where others do no more than whisper. I am the one who will listen and comment without quite joining in. I am […]
Gender Nonconforming
It’s odd that it took a Facebook update for me to find this one. I was scrolling through lists of the available options in the new “custom” gender box when I saw it. Gender Nonconforming. Well, what the heck is that, I thought? Once I went and looked it up, I realized that once again […]
A Lone Libertarian Walks Into a Bar
There’s a social event going on, and she’s excited to be there. All the people she knows have filled their tables, though, leaving her to find a chair at a table full of strangers. With strangers, you never know how the conversation will go. She knows she shares religious and most likely sexual mores with […]
Writing Ritual
This past weekend, my husband of twenty years and myself renewed our wedding vows. Actually, we went a bit beyond renewal. This was always intended to be the wedding we didn’t feel like we got. The first time we got married, he was 19 and I was 18. I had essentially run away from home […]
Imbolc 2014
Although we normally celebrate Imbolc on the second of February, today is when all the rituals in the area where scheduled. A nice, clear Saturday afternoon, with everybody free of other obligations. Except on Hoth, where snow thwarts all plans. The weather advisories started coming out on Thursday. Friday afternoon saw Brenden’s wrestling tournament cancelled. […]
Yuletide
Today is Yule, the Winter Solstice, shortest day and longest night of the year. I just finished lighting our Yule candle, which will stay lit until sunrise while we keep vigil through the darkness. Tonight, we will feast and make merry, drumming up happiness and joy to banish the darkness and sadness that surrounds us. […]
DNR
An article over at the New York Post on end-of-life care caught my attention this morning. You really have to read through the whole thing to get the full impact of it. The issues raised here resonate with me, in both my experiences and my beliefs. There was a time when I would have told […]
Know Thyself, Redux
I got a prompting to re-examine myself in the light of recent events. Specifically things surrounding Chris, but also things having to do with Kender and my religious community. I need to take a step back, take a breath, and reconsider who I am in relation to promises and commitments I want to make. I […]
Socially Acceptable Venting
I’ve been having a pretty tough day today with Kender. I’m taking advantage of the few brief moments here and there when he is silently pouting to type this out. I need to get this out, even (or maybe especially!) on a bad day like today, because sometimes I feel like I have no voice. […]