I have never been very good at keeping up with things, and this blog is proof of that. At the beginning of the academic year I had hoped that I could post an article a week. For a few weeks, as you can readily notice, this philosophy worked. However, life eventually caught up with me. As a full-time student who works a part-time job and who is involved in his local community, I have realized that writing well thought out articles—while I do enjoy it!—is just not always possible. That being said, I have decided that this blogging experiment needs to shift its focus a little. With the breaking of the New Year, then, I endeavor to reshape my plans for this piece cyberspace.
Going forward, I intend to use this blog as a religious and spiritual notebook, thereby widening its breadth to include topics on both Gaelic Polytheism (religion) and Witchcraft (spirituality). As a “notebook,” I will use this space to present my interpretations, insights, and even questions on the aforementioned themes. It is important to note that everything put forth in this blog will be drawn—unless noted otherwise—from my own subjective experiences. I do not claim that my way of doing things is the only way, nor that it is the most preferred way. It is simply a way, and the point of my posts is not to coerce people into believing what I believe. Rather the posts are designed to make people think—to make them ponder why and how they believe what they do.
While this blog will ultimately be a place for me to present my thoughts, I quite fancy the idea of others getting involved. I think it would be wonderful if this could serve as a place to bounce ideas back and forth. After all, more people and more viewpoints create more learning opportunities. In this sense, I would like to see this blog become part personal notebook and part community forum. Perhaps this is a bit idealistic. On the other hand, if I do not have goals for this project, what is the use of going through with it?
Also, having learned that keeping a rigid deadline often results in quick and sloppy posts, I will be posting infrequently and at leisure. In the end, quality matters much more than quantity in these areas.
For now, these are my thoughts. As I said at the beginning, “I have never been very good at keeping up with things,” but hopefully everything goes better in the New Year. After all, in a few hours, my procrastination and my semester from hell will be soooo 2010.
Sláinte,
Bryce
