Essays
Those things I write when I have too much time on my hands.
Some of these are articles I'm polishing up for publication, some are translations
of things, and some are just my writings.
Categorized Essays:
Chaos Pages: The Sleeping Giant in these pages.
Festivals, reviews of festivals I've
attended.
Songs, a list of some of the songs that have
meaning to me.
Short Musings, a set of short bits pulled from my journals.
"Art" Works, because sometimes I doodle.
Stories:
My Odyssey, a sort of description of where I've been on my journey.
The Missionary: A look at what faith
can do.
There are stars on that water. . . A bit on
God's Little Lanterns. . . The Fortune
Teller, the
beginning of a story.
The Crow's Story: a fair trade.
Falling Down, an experience in which I
was happy to feel pain.
The Death of the Cockroach King, a
short story inspired by a friend.
A Fracture of a Win, a fencing bout
I barely pulled out.
Celeste, meeting a beautiful woman and
having lunch.
A Football Encounter, meeting a
girl at a game.
The Girl on the Street, meeting a girl late
at night on my way home.
Dreaming the Beach: A story by
request
Paganism Essays:
Why I'm Pagan: How I came to this path.
What I Do: A discussion of the shift I made to
become the Priest I am.
Exploring Usas: A deity I am courting.
A Multiplicity of Centers: The Center in Ritual
Dorm Room Druidism: Ways to make your life
easier as a college Pagan
The Garanus Meditaiton: a meditation on
the Gatekeeper used by Three Cranes
ADF Ritual as a Mexican Burrito (and other
things you find in your grocery store)
Opening the Gates: My method as a Solitary
The
Nine Virtues of Hogwash: Virtues derived from The 21 Lessons of Merlyn
An ADF and OBOD comparison
A comparison of Rgvedic translations: comparing the Maurer and Doniger translations of RV I.32.
Norwegian Rune Song, Translated by me.
Pope
Cockroach the Green: dissection of a name
A Nature Meditation.
Universal
Light Expo 2004: a review
The PSA and Ritual.
A bit on exercise.
What to do if meditation isn't for you,
written but never submitted for the ADF DP
The Dream: A dream I had on the 03/03/03
and its repercussions.
The Pagan Safe House: an Experiment in Hospitality.
A Vision of ADF's Training Programs: Written 2006. Not official, just my thoughts.
Published Essays:
Reintroducing Solitary Work into Your
Life: written for OL #29
On Women Warriors, and finding them
in strange places
Placing the Home Shrine: putting
the things that matter at the center of your life.
The Desire to Devote, a short essay
on how to keep your devotions rolling.
ADF Druidism and Wicca: A comparison.
A Spirit on the Winds: A piece about the
work of Dr. Felicitas Goodman
General Essays:
Disorders: personal experiences.
Cards, about who I might just be. Gaulish
Personal Name Elements: a table designed to help people put together
personal names in Gaulish.
Letter to President Kirwin of OSU about Students For
Freethought.
Basic theories on human interaction.
Freaky Porno Guy, and the craziness of going
downtown.
A History of the Necronomicon,
by HP Lovecraft. No, I didn't write it, but I did copy it by hand so you could
read it! See an amusing companion piece (also not by me) here: The
Doom that Came to Chelsea!
A Day in My Life, or what happens when I get a chance to relate my day.
Shenanigans: When to call them.
A letter to Dairy Queen, from when I was told that they had discontinued the Butterscotch Dip Cone. Woe!
Ritualizing to the Beat of a Different Ant. Something I cooked up on a whim.

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