[ego-boosted]
I like the result I got on this quiz!
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This was the second year I have attended the ( Organ Grinders Ball )

I like to balance my "serious" daily schedule with mindless, silly fun. ( It keeps me sane... )

I feel like I've dropped off the earth for a while. Yet I think I've needed the break; I've been finally recognizing a lot of emotional baggage that was buried too deeply under my nose for me to see it ( Read more... )

For S&G's:
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The Oath Rite is the final bit of documentation for the Dedicants' Program in ADF. Some people perform this rite early in their Program to encourage them to finish it and fulfill their chosen oath. I wasn't sure it would happen for me, but after completing the first 10 assigments I was inspired to perform the rite. What I adapted for my own ( Read more... )

Another essay that dogmatic believers enter at their own risk. I wrote this one at the beginning of June 2004; I've changed quite a bit since then, while remaining essentially myself...
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The Three Kindreds in ADF are:

1. Nature Spirits
2. Ancestors
3. Deities

I wrote these essays in June 2004:
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For people new to ADF, this assignment can be a bunch of journal entries "debriefing" the experience of the high day ritual (4 of which must be in ADFformat). However, since I have been doing this for several years, I decided to summarize what I have experienced. At first, I paired it with DP#2, not really seeing much difference (in my practice) ( Read more... )

I wrote this essay in two parts -- one on June 4, 2004, and the other several months later at Jenni's suggestion, since she didn't think it answered the criteria. I still liked the "Ecology & Orthopraxy" theme, so I just appended the original essay to include the "missing" bits ( Read more... )