Okay, so I’ve drinken/dranken/drunken a bit of wine today (it’s therapeutic for me, I’ve found… and I’m becoming a regular wine snob: the darker the cab/merlot the better!) and got the impulse/feeling to write a little update, since I’m such a slacker. Well, I should rethink that; I’m not a slacker so much as I am dreadfully busy. Writing, traveling, ritualizing, DJing, etc., etc… in my teenage years, I would have never imagined that life could GET so wretched busy! But it’s not all in vain. One thing I pride myself on is constantly doing spiritual work—and that comes under the guise of so many things, from giving a Tarot reading to simply smiling to a random somebody I pass on the street. Indeed, every aspect of life is one grand spiritual working, so it only follows that everything we DO has a spiritual effect. (more…)

Well, here’s the report and reflections of my experience at this year’s PantheaCon: A Gathering of the Tribes. This was my first P-Con, and I thank all my author (and non-author) friends and the folks at Llewellyn for encouraging me to go; I hadn’t heard enough good things about the convention. I’ll be sure to bring Estha next year; finances have been a bit rough for us lately so I was on my lonesome this round–but it was, of course, meant to be, and turned out being an immensely personal healing experience.