Our chief liturgist, Caryn, amuses me. She has a handful with her two boys, one of which is currently still living with her. As such, when he has friends over to stay the night, she takes this opportunity from the perspective that only Caryn can. She tells her son’s friends that “..it is customary of […]
Author: Crystal
9 Virtues: Perseverance
I originally wrote this essay after much struggle, and after showing it to a DP mentor, had to scrap it completely. That alone showed me that perhaps my view of Perseverance is slightly skewed or confused. Perseverance is the ability to overcome and pass through obstacles. That’s a simplified definition of it. While trying to […]
9 Virtues: Integrity
Integrity covers so many different things, I think people get caught up in the moralistic portion of it. And while morals are a big part of integrity, they certainly aren’t the whole of what integrity should be about.
9 Virtues: Courage
I get told a lot that various things I’ve done are courageous. I’m not so sure “courageous” is the word for it, more like “out of necessity”, “bull-headedness” or plain old “stubbornness.”
9 Virtues: Vision
Vision is a virtue I don’t normally think about as often as the others, probably because to me it has so many different meanings.
High Days: Samhain
Samhain is a time of reflection and honoring the past, as it begins the new year. Not just the past turn of the wheel, but also continuing to remember the ancestors that came before us so that they and their lessons are not forgotten.
9 Virtues: Piety
Piety is probably the most difficult virtue for me to adhere to. Not because I don’t want to, and not because it isn’t important to me, because it is. I have this issue of short-term memory loss that really gets to me sometimes, and I have so many things bogging my mind down right now […]
9 Virtues: Wisdom
The wisest person I know is my father. He received very bad grades in school, struggles with his spelling, knows all there is to know about farming and old trucks, and has a deep appreciation for native american lore. But how does all of this make him wise?
A Fresh Start
I was going to wait to design my own layout for my Dedicants Journal before I started putting things online, but it’s taken this long already, and I don’t feel like waiting any longer. So I found a template I like and will use this until such time that I can create my own. In […]
