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Oct 13, 2011, 2:04 pm
I’ve been in Salem, Massachusetts, for a week now, reading cards at the World of Witches Museum and hanging out with my old friends from Chicago, Ed Hubbard and Don Lewis (the Witch School co-conspirators).
Random impressions of Salem:
I should have packed more black. This is a town where over-t... Comment - Like
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Aug 27, 2011, 12:15 pm
I haven’t blogged much this summer. More accurately, not at all.
It’s been a stormy time for me. Part of it has been a heavy travel schedule. I was gone most of July and and almost another week in August.
Part of it has been emotional. I kept remembering year-ago milestones. This was the date ... Comment - Like
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Jun 6, 2011, 6:27 pm
There are few things more difficult than dealing with grief. Each of us has to process our grief in our own way and in our own time.
Losing Isaac was easily one of the most difficult things I’ve ever had to deal with. We were friends for twenty-one years. We lived under the same roof for the las... Comment - Like
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Jun 1, 2011, 11:34 am
Another day, another tempest in our corner of the blogosphere.
Any of you old timers remember the debates in the letters columns of Pagan magazines? One letter would spark a reply in the next issue, and the next. Our best and brightest writers would carefully craft replies and the editors would we... Comment - Like
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May 19, 2011, 6:57 pm
There’s been a little flurry of activity today in our neighborhood of blogosphere about the question of whether Neopaganism is a expostmodern religion. I’ve been mulling this over since I read Drew Jacob’s and Star Foster’s take on it hours ago; the comment I was composing became so long, I ... Comment - Like
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May 13, 2011, 5:57 pm
If you’re not a follower of The Wild Hunt (what!! you should be!) you might not have heard of a guy named David Barton. I’ve been talking about him on Facebook, and Twitter, but not yet here. This is a character who needs to have a harsh, harsh spotlight shown upon him.
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May 10, 2011, 3:44 pm
Had an amazing time in Florida at the FPG-Beltane last weekend. My thanks to the organizers and attendees.
I have to say, the facilities there are impressive. I’m not a great camper any more, between the lingering effects of my long-ago back injury and my cranky hip joints. The FPG folks provided... Comment - Like
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Apr 30, 2011, 9:28 pm
This is my first Beltane without him.
When I talked to my mother about being a widow (dad died in 2005 at the age of 83) she said the firsts of anything were the hardest. The first birthday, the first Yule, the first New Year’s Eve, our wedding anniversary, that first, awful Samhain, yeah, they w... Comment - Like
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Apr 29, 2011, 12:00 pm
April is almost over but I’ve yet to write about the Great Texas Trip. I wouldn’t want any of the terrific people I met out west to think this reflects poorly on them; it’s simply a reflection of the distractions I found when I got home.
The saga starts in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, where I ... Comment - Like
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Apr 26, 2011, 4:14 pm
As we prepare to celebrate the festival of Beltane, a newer celebration is coming hard on its heels. This year, May 2nd has been designated International Pagan Coming Out Day. Coming right after Beltane, it’s a love fest in its own right, for by coming out, we are affirming our right to love ourse... Comment - Like
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Apr 25, 2011, 7:31 pm
Here’s a fun podcast I did with Bo on the Go (aka Sam Thompson) a week or so before I left for Texas. Part Two should be next month.
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Apr 25, 2011, 2:24 pm
Over the weekend, I went to the Shakori Hlls Grassroots Festival to hang out with my friend Lisa F., one of the dear of folks who at great inconvenience to herself helped me pack up and move house from New York to North Carolina. She does facepainting at events, so I was able to hang out at her boot... Comment - Like
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Apr 20, 2011, 4:10 pm
Amazon has stock right now of Isaac’s hard-to-find but indispensable Bonewits’s Essential Guide to Druidism, which has been out of stock (although never officially out of print) for a couple of years, now. I don’t even have any extra copies.
Get ‘em while you can!
And while you’re at it... Comment - Like
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Mar 25, 2011, 7:10 pm
Forget about April in Paris, I’m doing April in Texas.
Well, okay, I know there is an Paris, Texas (yeah, I saw the movie) but I’ve never been to Texas, so I have no idea where in Texas Paris, Texas might be. I do know where I’m going to be, though.
On Saturday, April 9, I’m in Garland, T... Comment - Like
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Mar 17, 2011, 1:23 pm
I’m not Irish–I’m not even really a Druid–but I’ve had a lot of Irish folk (ok, mostly men) in my life. I was married to one, handfasted to two others (waves at J.D. Murphy, A.A. Kelly, and the other guy–never mind him, he’s in jail) and of course married to an (only partly Irish) Arch... Comment - Like
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Feb 25, 2011, 9:43 am
After a very successful supper the other night, I decided to resurrect my food blog, Home Cook. Hope you’ll visit there, too. Comment - Like
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Feb 12, 2011, 6:57 pm
Ok, this is really hard to say. I am not a Druid. Not me. Not really.
Isaac was the Druid. He was a Druid his entire adult life, and a Famous Druid at that, what with the RDNA and the NRDNA and The HDNA and the SDNA, founding ADF and all that. A veritable alphabet soup of a Druid was my late, belov... Comment - Like
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Feb 1, 2011, 3:14 pm
Beth Owl’s Daughter tipped me off to something I surely should have known about, or that Isaac surely should have known about, because he would have loved, loved, loved it.
For the past six years, there’s been an informal poetry slam dedicated to Bridget on Internet blogs. It’s even got its o... Comment - Like
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Jan 28, 2011, 2:13 pm
I got a new library card the day before yesterday. This one is for the Chatham County Libraries. I can add it to my collection of North Carolina library cards: one each for Guilford County, Forsyth County, Wake County and Durham County. I also have cards from Jackson County, Oregon, from when I liv... Comment - Like
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Jan 21, 2011, 2:33 pm
One of the projects left unfinished when Isaac passed away was a book on Neopaganism. He and I had discussed my finishing it for him, and after talking to the publisher, I’m ready to go ahead with it.
As I look over the material he and I accumulated, it’s clear we both knew/know a lot about the... Comment - Like
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Jan 18, 2011, 7:05 pm
As I was riding home in the car this afternoon, I heard the piece on NPR about today being the fiftieth anniversary of the inauguration of John F. Kennedy. What makes this anniversary special is not so much what happened that day, but what was said.
This was the speech when Kennedy said, “Ask not... Comment - Like
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Jan 15, 2011, 1:22 pm
Wow, it’s been a busy few days. I’ve been working on some of the technical parts of the site and hadn’t realized how long it’d been since I did a proper blog post.
You may notice some new sidebar content. One of my projects is sprucing up our old CafePress shop. Now you can access it direct... Comment - Like
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Jan 10, 2011, 1:34 pm
In my last blog post, I made a passing reference to company that had been hosting this site. I almost didn’t mention it at all, thinking it might sound petty grousing about them in public.
Am I glad I did! Turns out that company had been sold to another, and all the contact info I thought I knew ... Comment - Like
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Jan 9, 2011, 5:37 pm
I’ve had a lot of people ask me about the fate of Isaac’s site Neopagan.net. (I say “Isaac’s” deliberately; even though it was ours, he was the one who did the work, and he was surely its heart and soul.)
As of now I’m preserving it as it is. Partly that’s technical; Isaac had been ma... Comment - Like
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Jan 7, 2011, 8:33 am
As some of you might know, I spent most of the last ten years working in mall stores. The last place I worked in New York state had a view onto the main drag of one of the biggest malls in America. The nature of the job I had gave me a lot of time to people-watch, which I enjoy, so that was good. I ... Comment - Like
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Jan 4, 2011, 6:45 pm
I tweeted about this video when I found it the other day, but I want to speak about it at greater length. Isaac’s Advanced Bonewits Cult Danger Evaluation Frame (ABCDEF) is probably the way he is best known outside the Neopagan and magical communities.
The ABCDEF (he told me once he realized that... Comment - Like
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Jan 2, 2011, 6:12 pm
On the second day of the year, I awake to a gray sky. It’s been raining all night which means the six inches of snow we got Christmas night is gone. It was sixty degrees yesterday and will be near that today–this is why I decided to winter in the South.
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Jan 1, 2011, 1:43 am
When they post those lists of things that stress people the most, there’s a couple of events that always make the top ten. Death of a spouse. Moving. Losing your job. I went through all of those in 2010 (OK, I quit my job, but mostly because I was too stressed to work at it any more). Thus, the ye... Comment - Like
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Aug 21, 2010, 1:06 pm
The memorial service for Isaac given by his family is today, Saturday, August 21 at 4 PM. First Unitarian Society of Rockland County (FUSRC), 130 Concklin Road, Pomona, NY 10970 Comment - Like
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Aug 12, 2010, 11:14 am
Philip Emmons Isaac Bonewits, founder and Archdruid Emeritus of of Ár nDraíocht Féin: A Druid Fellowship, one of North America’s leading experts on ancient and modern Druidism, Witchcraft, magic and the occult, and the rapidly growing Earth Religions movement, died today after a short struggle ... Comment - Like
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Feb 26, 2010, 10:44 pm
SNOCAP’s vanishing act has meant that all the links I had here at neopagan.net to sell my mp3s vanished as well. They hadn’t sold very well, anyway. So now I need to find another way to sell my music.
It will be a few weeks until I can remove all the SNOCAP links, since my web weaving s... Comment - Like
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Feb 24, 2010, 8:50 pm
Change of plans: we won’t be moving to Oregon for a while. I have a few more months of extra chemotherapy and some possible surgery to take care of first. The good news is that my tumors are much smaller. The bad news is that I still have tumors. So we’ll be sticking around until the new... Comment - Like
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Feb 13, 2010, 10:31 pm
We are now auctioning off an autographed copy of Neopagan Rites, my book on the design, preparation, and performance of public worship ritual. Go to our Books Page for reviews and to eBay to bid. Comment - Like
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Feb 9, 2010, 6:42 pm
You may have noticed that we haven’t posted any long updates since last November. In large part, that’s because most of the news was boring and/or unpleasant. Since the cancer I have is colon cancer (albeit of a skin cancer type), the details of my adventure have been painful, undignifie... Comment - Like
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Nov 11, 2009, 2:28 pm
Things are going ok. Isaac might even be doing better than I am at the moment.
I wish I could say I was the calmest, sanest, got-my-act-together-under-stress person you could find. Sadly, that is not the truth. Now, ’tis true that in acute moments of crisis, I can be steely and reasonably foc... Comment - Like
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Nov 1, 2009, 11:17 pm
I’m happy to say the general trend of Isaac’s cancer diagnosis is good.
At the end of last week, one of the oncologists (it’s a group practice) did a little sketch for us of the lesions. (They use “tumor” and “lesion” interchangeably; I suspect “lesio... Comment - Like
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Oct 29, 2009, 10:37 am
I really regret having had the flu last week when Isaac originally went into the hospital. He’s been so ill, he hasn’t been efficient at getting the info to me over the phone, which has kept me confused about which doctor is which and what’s all going on. Today, I think I’m g... Comment - Like
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Oct 29, 2009, 9:44 am
I’m just trying to convince Facebook to pick up an appropriate graphic when people link to our blog.
Nothing else to see here…move along. Comment - Like
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Oct 28, 2009, 6:07 am
It’s 4:30 in the morning and I can’t sleep, so maybe it’s time to get some of the thoughts out of my head and down on “paper.”
After being home with what was probably the flu, I was well enough yesterday (Tuesday) to visit Isaac at the hospital and talk to at least one... Comment - Like
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