Its been a short while since I’ve posted anything.  Some of that is by design, some of it is by necessity.  The ending of a class period is typically a time of maximized chaos…just as the beginning of a class period is.  Unfortunately for me…I had both instances going on – at two different schools.  However, with everything completed at one — and on the way to week three at another.  Everything is a lot better than it was….and I have time to sit, drink coffee, work on my own homework assignments, and get some long needed walks and meditation sessions in.

I’ve had a long period of time to think about community…Pagan community….for my local area.  Five, six years ago — the DFW Pagan community had a degree of cohesiveness to it.  It wasn’t strong by any sense of the imagination — but it was there and in the open.  Now, a few years later…things have changed…as everything always does.  What Pagan community there is in the Dallas/Fort Worth area is somewhat disjointed.  Last year, the yearly Pagan Pride Day event was abruptly cancelled.  Then it was back on at a different location.  And then abruptly cancelled again.  This year, I’ve seen no mention of anything being organized and put together.  I put out a mention of this on my FaceBook page with only one individual responding (hi Charlie!).

Granted – I’m just one Pagan…one person…and not with a major ton of friends over on FaceBook.  I have a few people that read and respond to me — but mostly these folks are not in the DFW area and are some of the small audience I have for my podcast.  Not much of a reach or representation there.  But that’s actually not a point…more like a disclaimer as to why there wasn’t much response to my statement.  The point is a slightly different one…stepping forward into the community and grasping some of the reins and responsibilities concerning issues like this.

Yes, what I am basically stating here is that when you see something wrong, and no one is there to fix it….roll up your sleeves and start working on it yourself.  The hope there is not that you will fix it yourself, but that someone else will roll up their sleeves and step in right beside you and help out.  I’m far from being any kind of a leader.  I tend to fall more under the lines of Dennis Leary’s character of Edgar Friendly in the movie “Demolition Man” — “I’m no leader.  I do what I have to do.  Sometimes, people come with me.”  I’m not good at organizing anything, but despite that – I’m willing to roll up my sleeves and make a rather shitty attempt at doing so.  I certainly hope that some people will “come along” with me…but I also hope someone else will see me struggling with it – roll up their sleeves, and apply their abilities and strengths to help get things going.

To that end — I would like to see a Pagan Pride Day event here in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.  Where?  I don’t know.  When?  I don’t know that either.  But I’d like to see one.  I don’t really care if there vendors at the event.  What I do care about is that its an event where people who are Pagans and Pagan-friendly can come together and meet.  Maybe do a picnic style lunch where everyone brings their own food and drink.  Maybe have an event where we can all band together and clean whatever park or area that we are meeting in – so we can leave it better and cleaner than it was before we got there.  Where does all that happen?  I have no idea.  Not yet.  Like I said – I’m lousy at putting something like this together…I have no idea where to start or what to do…hopefully, someone else does….and hopefully that person or persons steps forward and helps out after reading something like this.

I have faith in people.  I really do.  And I have faith that Pagans out there would love to do something like this.  Furthermore, I have faith that everyone can set down their petty politics for a single day.  Just one fucking day.  And spend that day having fun and getting to know other Pagans out there at an event like this.  Who knows?  I just may not know of the planning for an event like this that’s already underway.  Hopefully, a post like this will help me locate those people…and help out in whatever way that I can.  If its out there…I want to know about it.  And if its not…I’m going to shove this boulder until it gets rolling.  Anyone want to help push??