Tags: Elders

• Eating Your Totem

  Okay. So my dear Bren may or may not have eaten his “Totem” for dinner last week. And I joked about it. A few people had panic attacks about this. So in my usual sweet but sarcastic way let me address this.
  First of all, I am the kind of woman who has been known to start pillow fights in the middle of the afternoon in downtown Ottawa. I don’t take life all that seriously. I take my Witchcraft seriously, but [...]

• Yet Another Rant Poem: Be a Pagan Leader

  Build you up to tear you down
  Spitting on their heroes
  Tearing you part
  Then holding their hands out
  What the hell do they
  Think that they doing anyway?
  *

  They say toughen up and deal
  If you want to be our leader
  Then harden up your heart
  And don’t take it oh so hard
  Do they not understand?
  Can they not comprehend?
  It is that very soft spot
  That giant loving heart
  That makes you willing and able
  To be a Pagan leader
  *

  They say it’s all trade off
  Part and parcel for the fame
  As if you [...]

• All We Have to Offer

  Don’t say anything negative
  Don’t rock the boat
  Don’t weed the garden
  Just let Paganism get over grown
  *
  You have to stay positive
  Even when it’s stupid
  Just smile and sing
  Even if it’s boring
  *
  Don’t go looking
  For anything harder
  Don’t think any deeper
  Paganism 101
  Is all we have to offer
  *
  We’ve got next to nothing
  For your generation
  We never once thought
  The kids we raised on this stuff
  Would one day find it quite stale
  Might find the worry and bother
  Over lighting right colored candles
  To be redundant and pale
  *
  So shut up kid
  Don’t you complain
  Offering [...]

• Leaving the West and Something to Think About

  Had a blast in Calgary and in Regina. I will write more about our wonderful experinces in the West as soon as I can
  Many thanks to our gracious hosts Susan in Calgary and Erin in Regina (and their families) I will wax poetic about what wonderful hosts they are … when I have a bit more time and am on my own computer.
  Today we head for Winnipeg! The city my mother was born in. Hurrah!
  In the meantime, I [...]

• Road Trip!

  A world-traveled Druid and a down-home Hedgewitch are touring central Canada, and are looking to meet feollow Pagans & Witches!
  Dr. Brendan Myers, Ph.D. is an award-winning Canadian philosopher, writer, and public speaker. He is the author of several well-respected books on ethics, environmentalism, mythology, and Celtic spirituality. His titles include “The Other Side of Virtue”, “A Pagan Testament”, “The Mysteries of Druidry”, and “Loneliness and Revelation” (forthcoming in 2010).
  Juniper Cox is an experienced practitioner of traditional hedge-craft, and the web-master [...]

• A Random Rebuttal

  The laypagans have been getting on my nerves lately. That’s my problem, not theirs, I’m big enough to admit it.
  I believe that people need to shake free of this McWicca mentality and stop looking for easy way to anything.
  However … we can’t fault laypagans for being laypagans.
  Not all of us are called to a deeper path, not all of us are smart, or educated, or disciplined.
  Some of us may have learning disabilities or have other things going on in our [...]