The Gnosis Cafe blog is up and running!
I thought I couldn’t do it—navigate the back end of my server and set up a blog, but after an hour and some change, I think this thing is ready to run! All the while I was building it, I kept reminding myself that this goes against my business principles: I am creating something I don’t yet have a specific use for. But the gravitational forcefield of the blogosphere was too great to resist, so here I am with a blog of my very own.
I, unlike lots of my closest friends, don’t have a website under my own name (annehill.org, for instance). Rather, I have three websites for different stuff that I’m into. The first was the Serpentine Music site for my independent music label and distribution business. That has been running along quite nicely for several years now, and continues to be my main business.
Then, about 10 years ago I started writing a book with my friends Starhawk and Diane Baker, and it turned out that I was the most technologically inclined of the three of us, so I took on the project of creating a website for our book, Circle Round: Raising Children in Goddess Traditions. I posted some articles, lots of reviews, a schedule of our author appearances, an expanded bibliography, and information on the music recording I made to complement the book, on our site.
Both of those sites were going along quite nicely, but then I decided to go back to school for a doctorate (Doctor of Ministry, to be exact), become a dreamworker, and write another book. Dreamwork and pastoral counseling/spiritual direction are things I’d already been doing anyway, but they started to take center stage in my world of interests. I started doing more and more professional dream work, incorporating it into my teaching and workshop schedule, so I decided a new forum was needed to express that. Hence, the Gnosis Cafe website, my newest creation.
Anyway, I may find myself blogging here about any number of topics, from music to my family to dreams to magic and back again. I don’t really want to be tied down as far as what musings I post in what website, but for those of you who are only interested in one or two of the above, I’ll create a few categories so you’ll be able to sort posts and only read the ones that interest you. Okay? Everybody ready? Right then, let’s go.
