I feel we make the mistake of judging others based on such things

“Oh she can’t be a very serious, scholarly pagan, she doesn’t handwrite her BoS”

Silly and pretentious

Maybe that witch has arthritis and can’t hand write. Maybe she was never taught the value of handwriting etc…

We also cannot expect everyone to do as we do all the time, nor to be at the same stage in his or her Path as we are.

We have to allow for others to evolve, practice and learn in their own way.

We don’t know what their story is, what their background is, where they are coming from, where they are on their Path … and we can’t judge by a few blog posts, or by a glance at a BoS, or by how they pronounce “Athame” (geez people, folks have accents!)

Maybe if we encouraged rather than scoffed and looked down our noses…

Like I said “Spend some time at home with your kids and Craft students working on their handwriting, researching, and spelling skills, because they do not teach that at school any more.”

Or better yet, change the school system! Get the keyboards and calculators out of kid’s hands.

Thanks

Cheers!

My main reason for insisting on hand-written work is one I learned from a University prof I have deep respect for (one of the precious few). Writing by hand processes the info through the writer’s mind. That processing is very important. While there is now an incredible amount of info of various depths readily available, the collection process is often just a click: I know people who have BOS google readers and Digg accounts. These make the info available and easy to access, yet they actually make it more difficult to process that info and make it available for someone’s brain when she or he is not online. Processing it provides the first steps of experience, inviting the individual to be more than just an academic armchair expert.

The handwriting does not necessarily need to be legible. This is process-oriented work, rather than result-oriented.

My secondary reason can be summed up by “put down the book(laptop?) and look.” Cath heard that a lot from me ;^D

Have I explained my point well? Do you have an opinion about it?

Keep up the great posts!

When I started out on my path, fairly late in my early 30′s, everything in my BOS was printed out from the internet. Mainly, this was because I was so interested in everything that was out there to learn, and I wanted to have all that information for myself! After a year or two, I was more confident in what I wanted to learn and study, and I started copying what was important to me by hand. I’ve now got a kitchen BOS, an herbal and a “main” BOS.