On Being an Urban Druid

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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 … Read more

Working with Water

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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 … Read more

Inviting Air

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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 … Read more

It’s all about balance

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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, … Read more

Getting un-stuck

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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.

Disconnecting and re-connecting

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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 … Read more

The inconsistent blogger

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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 … Read more

Knowing that you know nothing

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“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. A lot of the book that I’m reading, “How to Think About Weird Things”, talks how hard it is to truly prove something beyond any doubt.  The author proposed that when we say that something is true, we really mean that it’s proven true beyond reasonable doubt.  There is always the chance that there is something that we haven’t discovered that will change the way we look at things.

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Thoughts on Online Training

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Let me start by saying that I’m a technophile .. I LOVE being able to integrate the new technology that we have developed, physical, electronic, and spiritual, into our practice and study. I frequently take classes from online groups and have worked with both online and in-person groups. This post was inspired by one from … Read more

Don’t tell me about nature

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Recently, there was a thread on a mailing list that I follow about how Druids should rever nature. About how it’s not right to use synthetic incense or products, and we should separate ourselves from the urban world. Umm … not for me. That may be fine for people who think that, but not for … Read more