To Those Erecting Fallacious Political Strawmen in Response to My Last Post
Marc
Posted on May 29, 2017
Anglo-Saxon Heathenry and Roman Polytheism
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Spring has officially sprung. Ēastre is on Her way, complete with flowers, and green things, and warm weather. Or so they say. You’d never know it, looking out the window. A late winter snowstorm that hit the Northeast dumped over twenty inches of snow in my area of the Hudson River Valley. Though there were harder hit regions, it was still an inconvenience. Those few warmer days, having reduced the snow pack’s size, have once again given way to bitter cold and sub-zero windchills. In typical New York fashion, we’ve gone from near sixty-degree days to bitter cold, often within hours. And now those selfsame snow packs are hard, and compacted, and near-solid enough for me to walk on without breaking the outer layer. But…
Amidst the drama and brouhaha of Paganism, polytheism, and Heathenry, I’ve been trying to work on some behind the scenes things here. It keeps me out of trouble, you understand. As I put more “professional” focus on my writing, such as it is, I find myself to be caring more over the form and function of the blog, instead of focusing exclusively on content. A lot of this space was established and then not completed, and I’ve taken it upon myself to try to rectify this. I’m tired of my theme, but I don’t like the WordPress themes available currently, so I’m in the process of trying to make this space more engaging. We’ll see what comes from it. A big addition is me…
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As I stated yesterday, when I made my anniversary post, I had something else I wanted to write up. It’s a bit of an announcement and an update for a potential interruption in service, here. As of yesterday, I am officially a wegfarende. The word is Old English (weg-farende) for a “wayfarer”, or a traveler. Effectively, I have no permanent home over my head at the moment. The property I’ve been living in was sold, and I have been thus far unsuccessful at attaining an apartment or more professional employment in order to support said space. One would think with a Master’s degree that decent (read: livable employment that is not simply subsistence-based) work would be more easily attainable. I’m in New England, where…
Today, I was informed by WordPress that seven years ago today I registered for their service. By extension, this marks the seventh anniversary of the founding of Of Axe and Plough, which I launched immediately after registering here. Truthfully, it doesn’t feel like I’ve been around that long, and my post-count certainly doesn’t scream to my successes of blogging for seven years. I migrated, initially, off of LiveJournal because I wanted something a bit more professional looking. And I had forgotten my password. Ahem. This blog sat fallow until about 2011 with only a smattering of posts, and almost all of those posts were not something I wanted to keep around. So I purged this space at least twice and realigned it into something more productive.…
Because that’s where you keep tools like axes and ploughs, right? I don’t know what else to call the “behind the scenes” part of this whole operation. This is a rare personal post. If you don’t care about reading that, you’re free to skip it. Long time readers of my blog know that I don’t tend to use this forum as a personal space unless it intersects within my religious or philosophical inclinations. I err too much on the side of ranting, and lose focus on what I want to speak on. Plus it breeds too much negativity and I don’t really want to pollute this space with that. I like people coming to me for information and knowledge without taking away a lot…
While tomorrow is not the “official” new year in either of the liturgical calendars I follow, and indeed I only concern myself with the official new year of the Roman calendar on March 1st, it is the new year in the Gregorian calendar. As a point of celebration around the world, though most especially in the West, we look back on the accomplishments and our failings, and seek to approach the new year with a great effort to incite change and growth. “A prosperous day dawns: favour our thoughts and speech! Let auspicious words be said on this auspicious day.” – P. Ovidius Naso, Fasti 1.71-72 The Kalends of January – Kalendae Ianuariae – is a day of new beginnings. While the Kalends of…
Bona Dea, what a night. As I was sitting down to begin my producing/moderation duties in regards to the Heathen Talk podcast (Wednesday Nights at 10pm Eastern), I stumbled upon a distracting and horrific realization. The folder which all of my Pagan topics, from my blog, to other ideas for initiatives, to .pdf downloads that I have found in regards to my interests in the wider community and my own practice was missing. Entirely from my harddrive. Half completed, mostly completed, and just started writings are missing, including pieces for the Roman Revivalism and Spiral Nature blogs. Understand, I am not computer illiterate. While I am by no means a programmer (indeed, I struggle with a lot of code), I am a high functioning…
Categories: Blog Business, SHITFEST20XX
