Defining my Theology

A little over a week ago, I went to a Buddhist temple for one of their Temple Life tours. The tour was great, and subject for another post. As part of the tour registration, I was required to put down my religion. That made me think … how do I define my religion?  Depending on the … Read more

Habits continue

It’s been a little over a month since I started the effort to be creative for 30 days, and I did it! Even with a trip in the middle (go socks) there was creation every day. Now I find that I really enjoy the creativity and I’m actively looking for different ways to add creativity … Read more

A habit might be forming

It’s been really interesting as I try to form habits of practice. I seem to have a lot of difficulty doing so, and quickly fall out of habit once my schedule changes. I travel often enough for work that this is an issue. Recently, I’ve been doing the 30 Day Creativity Challenge from Little Girl … Read more

An Extrovert Alone

I identify as an extrovert. I’m not a very strong extrovert, but I’m definately more extroverted than not. Still … there are times when I don’t feel very extroverted. For years I thought that maybe I was really an intervert who was good at playing an extrovert. And then I realized that I’m not really, … Read more

Visiting a Buddhist Temple

I recently visited Bongeunsa Temple in Seoul, South Korea. It was my first visit to a Buddhist temple, and I’m not sure what I expected. It was a week before Buddha’s Birthday, which is celebrated in Korea on May 25th this year. The temple was decorated with lanterns and floats for the celebration. As I … Read more

Walking through Fire

This post was inspired by the Pagan Experience May posts. Lately my daily divinations have been … interesting. They speak of a trial, of healing a hurt, and walking through the experience. In my Soul Work class at Cherry Hill Seminary last Fall, we talked a lot about moving through the Fire. When you walk … Read more

Survey of North California Pagans

Greetings to the few of you who follow this blog! As I’ve mentioned before, I am taking classes at Cherry Hill Seminary.  One of the classes that I’m taking now is a Public Relations class and our current homework is to understand our audience better! My project is to come up with a PR plan … Read more

When papers are good

Some folks may be aware that I’ve been taking classes at Cherry Hill Seminary   I’m into my 3rd semester and I’ve enjoyed all the classes I’ve taken so far and am really enjoying the current classes on Modern Paganisms and Public Relations!  This week, I managed to have three reasonably large peices of homework due and … Read more

Personal Practice – work in progress

This week’s Pagan Experience post is about our personal practice. I am following a Druidic path – one that balances reconstruction and experimentation.  I find that understanding, why the practices that I’m doing, were done before, helps to deepen my experiences of them.  Knowing that what I do today has echoes to the past is … Read more

The Pagan Experience

I’m a bit late getting to the party, but one of the things that I’d like to do this year is to write more.  Blogging is an excellent way to help out with the amount of writing.  I’m still doing classes at Cherry Hill Seminary, as well as working on my advanced study programs for … Read more