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Well...I sent in my resume for the DC helpdesk job...or, more accurately, I sent it to Keith to be submitted. *crosses toes*

Last night I wandered around the ADF website and poked at the clergy study program. I was looking through the various requirements to each segment when I realized that I could easily answer a few of them...so I actually typed those up and seaved them. I'm not going to post them because I may very well change them later when I actually start on the program, but I figured it doesn't hurt to keep them because I think that I did a good enough job on them that if I wanted to, at the approriate time, I could submit them as I wrote them last night, with perhaps a bit of editing later. (easier questions like a view on the purpose of divination, and how the internet contributed to the growth of neopaganism in the 90's...none of the really in-depth stuff of course)

Yesterday in the Grove's library, I found a copy of Robert Fulghum's From Beginning To End...it's the only book of his that I haven't read (also the only one I don't have a copy of) so I borrowed it and have since read most of it. It's about the rituals of life...birth, death, weddings, family reunions, class reunions, and less obvious ones like washing the dishes or walking the dogs, or just waking up in the morning. (Fulghum's books are painfully easy to read, they're not poorly-written, they're not "dumbed-down", he just has a style of writing that's very conversational and easy to process without a lot of thought.) Anyway, it contains a lot of "As a minister...." and "Being a membmer of the clergy..." type thoughts, so it's a very interesting read, aspiring clergy person that I am. Though even if I weren't, it would be a very interesting read.

(For those that don't know...Robert Fulghum is the quthor of All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten, and it's subsequent books, Uh-Oh, It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It and Maybe, Maybe Not as well as True Love, which is a collection of true stories about love of all kinds...ooh, and I just found on his website, he has another book- Words I Wish I Wrote, which talks about works of writers that inspired him...and it was written as a benefit book- all profits go to the Human Rights Watch...AND he has a novel being published this year- arg, but it's being published in Europe. In Czech...and Polish and Hungarian, Slovakian, Spanish, Italian and German. Not English?. And he's working on another book of essays supposedly to come out this year. In the US, I hope.

Let me just say, every one of his books so far have made me both laugh and cry. No other author has made me do that every time I read one of their books.)

Other than that...ummm...Lunassagh went very well. Weather was wonderful, we went well past dark with lots of candles all around, and pagandenma did an excellent job leading. Ready to do it again Kat? :-P

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In a store as big as the Barnes and Noble at the Harbor, one would think that 1. someone in the store knows what Theogeny is and 2. there would be a copy aailable.

*grumble*

Invocation to Airmid (From Lunassagh)

Airmid, sweet Goddess of green herbs
Lady of tireless patience and healing,
I call to you now to join us
And celebrate this festival.
Oh sister of Miach
The herbs have been counted
And they have been named
Come to our Grove this evening
We ask your presence to unlock
These gates between the worlds and watch them
And once more
We honor the ways of our following

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SO glad I double-checked the IFCMD website...why was I thinking the meeting was trhe first Monday of the month? It's the second...good thing because there's a storm kicking up out there...