One of the things I had to do as my mind began to recover was to become more aware of the capabilities I have now – at 42 years old – instead of holding myself to the same standards that I did at 32 or even 22 years old.
There’s a certain glamour about the hippie witch life that the uninitiated gravitate toward. The carefree, commune-dwelling, love-and-peace aesthetic is alluring. In the mind’s eye, the garden is always flourishing, the animals never get sick, the well pump never breaks, and the outside world is always accepting.
It was a long struggle for Taz and I both to realize that we, by ourselves, didn’t have the resources available to support the sort of infrastructure that we were trying to build.
The Web is more than the natural connections between all beings, be they animal, vegetable, or mineral. It also incorporates concepts of wyrd, karma, and mana.
The Way, at least as I currently understand it, is a practice that emphasizes the sorts of universal truths that underpin many of the world’s religions and philosophies-of-life: love one another, harm none, honor the divine, exercise compassion, help those in need, defend those who cannot defend themselves, safeguard all children, respect your elders, enjoy…