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A Year of Contemplation

Preparing on the Sunny Day (... but not necessarily the 253rd sunny day)

9/10/2019

 
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​Some years ago, when I was going through the process of working up to initiation in a Wiccan group in Louisiana, I was asked to live on the streets for 48 hours. See, I was going through the Water phase of the work, and my High Priestess thought it’d be a swell idea to have me train my emotions/heart-power by going into the world and being homeless and without resources. 

What an eye-opening experience. 

In this short time, I was able to learn so much about compassion, being seen, humanity, hunger, communication, and kindness. In the same fashion as soldiers practicing maneuvers in peacetime, so too did I practice my compassion skills before I got to a place where they were needed and there was no safety net handy. Now that I‘m thinking about it, I’m remembering how much easier it was on the second day. I imagine it’d be even easier on the next day, and the one after that. I suppose what I’m trying to say is this: 

It’s easy to practice setting up the tent when it’s dry and the sun is out, because there’s no crucial need or life-threatening situation. In the dark, cold, and rain isn’t the time or place to be practicing. 

When it’s easy, we train. We train for the times when it won’t be easy. We train, while it’s easy, for the hard times. 

(See y’all tomorrow) 

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    Awakening the desire to explore Stoicism, and how it relates to his existing beliefs, Rev. William committed to working through the text, The Daily Stoic, a year-long journey to awaken the Stoic mind. 
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    Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Rev. William attended Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado where in 2007 he graduated with a degree in Religious Studies, minoring in Psychology. Currently residing in Longmont, CO, he is one of the Priests and founder of Mountain Ancestors Grove.  He spends his time playing mandolin (and some guitar), writing, engaging in LGBTQIA+ advocacy and education, community service, and sharing a larger vision of how a polytheist perspective can lead to greater human understanding, acceptance, and gods be good, peace. 

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