I hit a milestone with my last article.  There are now 100 articles, other than this one, on my blog.  Sadly, many of my most recent articles are over a month apart.  But I am, once again, looking over my project here and trying to determine what direction and focus I want to give it.

This has long been an experiment along with many others, given that I have no experience with managing an online resource such as this or the related forums.  It’s been hit and miss, with lots of lessons learned along the way.  But I am still floundering about, looking for a focus or a goal.  This blog has chronicled a great deal of internal change in my life, and those changes are still ongoing.  I feel as if I have something I need to achieve, some goal, something I need to accomplish… I just don’t really know what it is.

The good news is that I do have a lot of, hopefully interesting, things to write about still.  So, with your indulgence, dear readers, I will continue to muddle through with any clear direction, but with some interesting observations along the way to wherever it is I am going.

I do feel that I owe to you, those who actually grace me with your readership, something in the way of consistancy.  I am making a pledge to post twice a week.  Once on Mondays and once on Thursdays.  Maybe I’ll post more often, but that much, I will do my level best to give to you.

So, stay tuned.  A new article will be up here on Monday!

Today, the first day of the new year, we launch our new forum for pagans. The idea of a forum started out from discussions with other pagans at Ex-Witch ministries. We felt a need to have our own private fellowship just like the Christians there have. So, now we do.

While at it, I hope to build a new resource for pagans of South Louisiana, for pagans of Celtic or “Warrior” spiritualities and, to a lesser extent, everybody else, though I don’t think the world needs yet another generic pagan forum.

The forum has places for public conversations and also for those that pagans might not feel comfortable exposing to the public eye.My dear readers out there (yes, all four of you…) are humbly invited to join in.

In a slightly related note, you probably have noticed a severe lack of new articles here. I guess I am going through a crisis of focus, trying to figure out just where this blog should be going. My main “mission,” so to speak, is to support the South Louisiana pagan community, but this blog has done a very poor job of doing so. Now I am re-thinking things a bit. I recently joined a list-serve of pagan bloggers, so maybe I’ll figure out where I am going with all this soon. In the mean time, drop on in at the forums and see what we have cooking!

You may have noticed the nice little moon phase display. A number of pagan websites have one of these, and I’ve been thinking about putting one up for a long time. It just took me a while to get around to it.

Being aware of the moon’s cycles puts us more in touch with the cycles of nature around us. Although it’s better to just go outside and look at the moon, I find these tools to be useful reminders that nature doesn’t know what day of the week it is or what month it is. For us to live in harmony with Her, we have to live as best we can according to Her calendar.

Now I just need to find a “solar phase” display showing where we are in the equinox / solstice cycle, and we’ll be set.

In other news, I haven’t posted lately because I am still obsessed over the forums at Ex-Witch Ministries. I just can’t seem to pull myself away to work on articles here. Well, the bright side is that it may give me some material for future articles, but mostly only Pagan v. Christian articles, which is something I’m trying to stay away from on this blog.

I did, however, have a “revelation” concerning biblical prophecy which might make a good article soon. So, stay tuned.

I wandered off from that famous on-line ministry, ExWitch, some months ago when Pagan and Christian Moot withdrew their support of it. ExWitch does have its entertainment value, but it gets boring after a while. Even as much of a glutton for punishment I might be, banging your head against a brick wall gets tiring.

For some reason, I felt drawn back in to their forums. In fact, it seems like I could do nothing this weekend but peruse the threads and throw in my two cents here and there.

I honestly don’t know why I bother. Again, it is entertaining, but I could have been outside communing with the spirits, enjoying the weather. Getting so oppositional, while beneficial in small doses, doesn’t do me any good to overly dwell upon. If I’m going to spend a lot of time reading, researching, and writing, it should be on my own path, my own terms.. on my own blog for crying out loud.

So, I’m going to try to let go of my obsession with ExWitch and spend time on more worthy pursuits. Happy labor day, everyone!

This weekend, I went to our annual family reunion. We held it in a set of beach houses on the Texas coast. It was the first time in many years that practically the entire family made it, including my 89 year old grandmother with the rest of the contingency from Earthhaven in North Carolina.

My aunt and grandmother revived an old family tradition — one that died out long before I was born.  We sang a folk song about going to a corn shucking (which, I suspect, is a variation of this very similar song).  We replaced the main verses with lyrics about our family members and we all sang together.  Then, we were tasked to make up our own verses about the yonger generations, so that the song could continue and grow and tell the story of our family.

I was choked up.  I had just been thinking that it would be wonderful to have some kind of Celtic-like singing and storytelling tradition in our family to keep alive the memories of our elders and ancestors.  And there it was.  I pledged that night in front of the whole family to keep the tradition alive for our children.

I am happy to say that the oral tradition can be kept alive, or revived, even in this modern media-addicted day.  It just takes a little effort, is all.