Comments on: Meta-Rambles and an Apology http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2008/02/26/meta-rambles-and-an-apology/ Thoughts on Dreams, Life, and Spirit Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:34:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Sia http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2008/02/26/meta-rambles-and-an-apology/#comment-7910 Sia Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:45:14 +0000 http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2008/02/26/meta-rambles-and-an-apology/#comment-7910 I remember the last PantheaCon we worked together three years ago and I remember how much dignity and grace you showed then - when this issue was new and your feelings were still very raw - and how you still show that, every day. I've been there at the end of a long relationship, and I know how hard that is. Hang in there. If living well is the best revenge, then you have yours You never said you wished for any, but who among us does not think of it? If, as I suspect, you are well past the need or desire for revenge, then you have gone even further and deeper. Again, that would be just like you. Sia I remember the last PantheaCon we worked together three years ago and I remember how much dignity and grace you showed then - when this issue was new and your feelings were still very raw - and how you still show that, every day.

I’ve been there at the end of a long relationship, and I know how hard that is. Hang in there.

If living well is the best revenge, then you have yours You never said you wished for any, but who among us does not think of it?

If, as I suspect, you are well past the need or desire for revenge, then you have gone even further and deeper. Again, that would be just like you.

Sia

]]> By: Anne http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2008/02/26/meta-rambles-and-an-apology/#comment-7901 Anne Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:33:09 +0000 http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2008/02/26/meta-rambles-and-an-apology/#comment-7901 Steward says, "gossip is the most telling state of how people experience the now." Perhaps, but it is also how some of our most important history is held, particularly the "minority reports" in a sub-culture which values a unitary narrative. Rosa, who lived in SF for several months recently while she was researching her Master's thesis on Reclaiming, introduced herself at a salon by disclosing that she was planning on writing about what she experienced. My response to her: "yours is not the book we should be worried about." Pitch says, "tellers of history are crucial." I couldn't agree more. My hunch is that the next 10 years will see many of those "minority reports" come to light. Ultimately I think this can only be a good thing in terms of the overall health of the Pagan movement. Steward says, “gossip is the most telling state of how people experience the now.” Perhaps, but it is also how some of our most important history is held, particularly the “minority reports” in a sub-culture which values a unitary narrative.

Rosa, who lived in SF for several months recently while she was researching her Master’s thesis on Reclaiming, introduced herself at a salon by disclosing that she was planning on writing about what she experienced. My response to her: “yours is not the book we should be worried about.”

Pitch says, “tellers of history are crucial.” I couldn’t agree more. My hunch is that the next 10 years will see many of those “minority reports” come to light. Ultimately I think this can only be a good thing in terms of the overall health of the Pagan movement.

]]> By: steward http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2008/02/26/meta-rambles-and-an-apology/#comment-7899 steward Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:35:07 +0000 http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2008/02/26/meta-rambles-and-an-apology/#comment-7899 "I could give a jaded insider’s view of the con, complete with snarky gossip-y non-information that some people would think was hilarious but many more would think was self-indulgent and boring. So no, that’s not the blog post I want to write (though it is tempting)." It seems to me (as long as no actual confidences are revealed) that such a post would actually be the most appropriate thing you write, if you write anything. We talk and talk about dynamism, especially in contrast to the static world that other people ruled by books thousands of years old are ruled by; and gossip is the most telling state of how people experience the now. “I could give a jaded insider’s view of the con, complete with snarky gossip-y non-information that some people would think was hilarious but many more would think was self-indulgent and boring. So no, that’s not the blog post I want to write (though it is tempting).”

It seems to me (as long as no actual confidences are revealed) that such a post would actually be the most appropriate thing you write, if you write anything. We talk and talk about dynamism, especially in contrast to the static world that other people ruled by books thousands of years old are ruled by; and gossip is the most telling state of how people experience the now.

]]> By: Pitch313 http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2008/02/26/meta-rambles-and-an-apology/#comment-7896 Pitch313 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:00:02 +0000 http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2008/02/26/meta-rambles-and-an-apology/#comment-7896 The history, and those who remember it, perhaps who helped make it, are important. Probably more important now than then. Many more folks are trying to make sense of what they are doing, why, and along what vectors of energy and intention. With accounts of history distorted by some retellings and misunderstood according to some notions of what Neo-Paganism was, and so has to be. Tellers of history are crucial. The history, and those who remember it, perhaps who helped make it, are important. Probably more important now than then. Many more folks are trying to make sense of what they are doing, why, and along what vectors of energy and intention. With accounts of history distorted by some retellings and misunderstood according to some notions of what Neo-Paganism was, and so has to be.

Tellers of history are crucial.

]]> By: moonroot http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2008/02/26/meta-rambles-and-an-apology/#comment-7894 moonroot Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:38:27 +0000 http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2008/02/26/meta-rambles-and-an-apology/#comment-7894 May it be so indeed. Your ability to take the high road, keep both history and confidences, are some of the things that make me admire you so much. May it be so indeed. Your ability to take the high road, keep both history and confidences, are some of the things that make me admire you so much.

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