Musings

Happy New Year to one and all! As we welcome in 2014, a lot of people make new resolutions … I’ve never been good at making New Year’s Resolutions.  I think that’s mostly because I commit to too much or don’t follow through. So this year I’m making new goals. One of my goals is…

One of the most stressful times for me is when I can’t seem to accomplish anything.  I’ve known this for years, but only recently did I recognize that this is not about accomplishing, but about the need to create. I’m not sure where it comes from, but I need to make things that I can…

It’s interesting, being an urban druid.  There are people who say that you can’t be a druid and live in a city, but I disagree.  Being a druid is as much about an attitude as it is about working with nature.  After all, humans are natural, and so are the things we build. One of…

In my previous post, I mentioned working with Air for a week.  For the following element, we are working with Water. Water is the element of emotions.  For me, it’s also about balance, and not going to extremes of emotions. This week I spent a week working with Water and asking for balance in my…

While working with the AODA study program, I’ve begun to start working with the elements.  Air being the first.  For one week I invoked Air every day and used it both for invoking things into my life and for banishing things from my life.  It’s been an interesting experience. I have been working with changing…

Everything in life is about balance.  How much we eat, work, sleep, play, create and worship. If we do too much of any one of those things then our lives suffer. But how do we know what the right balance for us is?  I don’t believe that we have the same levels that are balanced,…

I’ve noticed that sometimes I get “stuck” – fascinated by an image, continually repeating a task, constantly reviewing a web page or email, or sometimes just repeating a thought over and over. It’s like my record keeps skipping, repeating the same thought pattern over and over.

For those of you who know me you know I prefer to live in an urban environment, preferably in a city.  And I’m studying the path of Druidry.  It may seem like a bit of an oxymoron, but I’m an Urban Druid. There’s nature all around us in the cities – mushrooms growing in the…

I have to admit .. I’m definitely an inconsistent blogger.  I realize that it’s been over a year since I posted here …. and to be honest, I’m not sure I’ve moved much further than then in my spiritual life.  I think about it … sometimes … but doing the action seems … hard.  Work…

“And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.” – Socrates This quote came across my email, and I find myself amused at serendipity.  I’ve been working on my Critical Thinking I course for the ADF Generalist Study Program, and have been wrestling with some of the concepts in that course….