daibhaid@summerlands.com Re: News Years Vows KelTao KelTao@yahoo.com Sat Oct 21 11:06:18 2000 daibh wrote,*br*: Daven wrote,*br*: : Daibhaid O'Broder wrote,*br*: : : This seems like a good time and place to insert this...So *br*: : : :^)*br*: : <snip>*br*: : : D~*br*: :*br*: : Man, and I thought I had it bad. I feel for you bro. I'll *br*: : keep you in my thoughts as well as myself. LOL*br*:*br*: Aw Daven! Hell, I'm not looking for a pity party, just *br*: putting my thoughts into words. After all the greater way to *br*: work any event is to do so. Basically thought directs *br*: action.*br*:*br*: Slan*br*:*br*: Daibhaid*p**p**br*Greetings and Many Blessings!! *p*I just wanted to say hello and wish you good luck in re-balancing the energies in your house. I understand what that is like--my husband and I are living now in the very place where he grew up, and his childhood was less than rosy and sweet. It took a lot of getting used to, but we have finally come to terms with it and little-by-little the pervasive clouds of doom are lifting. Between rituals for "housecleaning" and simple acts of hospitality like the wonderful feasts we cook for our Asatru friends, gradually this house is becoming a home. It takes time and work but I don't believe any house is truly "cursed" or "haunted" beyond repair!! *p*Anyway, on the subject of Samhain vows, my vow if you can call it that is to find a group of Druids/Celts etc. to practice with. I have been studying as a solitary and reading/studying a lot for the past two or three years but I find that books can only get me so far in my spiritual growth. Personal meditation is all well and good, but I really would benefit from having a sense of community. (That is one thing that I have learned a lot from my observations of the Asatru-- they really seem to value a sense of community as part of their religious/spiritual experience. They really take their vows of kinship quite literally. This is something I have yet to find in my experience of Wiccans and Celtic Reconstructionalists).*p*Anyway, this is just by way of introduction,*p*I wish you health, happiness and long life,*p*Chris, *p*(KelTao) Re: News Years Vows daibh 728 Mon Oct 16 18:59:24 2000