So, hi again. 🙂 Yeah, this is when the blog will come out on a (mostly) regular basis…at least for now. Once per week…every Wednesday. Or as close as I can get to it. I’m not a professional whatsoever. But I do the best that I can. 🙂

So let’s start today off with a few of the things that I am. I am a Pagan. I am a Priest. I’m also a solitaire. But I’m not a Wiccan. I’m a Druid. Loosely, I associate myself with the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (OBOD for short). I’m currently in my Ovate studies, which I will be restarting…because I can. 🙂 And because I am so far behind in my studies. Health issues and scares will do that to you…well, it did for me. But that provides where I’ve managed to get to. What I want to relate here is where I am going…with no time frame on things. Because I just can’t fathom what will get in the way…

Like I noted, I’m on my Path through my Ovate studies. Once I finish those, I will (hopefully) be allowed to continue forward with my Druid grade studies. If not, well…we’ll just hope I get allowed to move forward in the grades. Druidry is a good place for my to get into my studies. It allows me to move forward at the pace that I can…plus I get the chance to find ways to combine things with everyday life. Sort of. I am still trying to find a way to include my health issues with all of that, but in the meantime I continue forward the best way that I can.

Add to this, I’m doing all this without a job. Yes. No job. In fact, I’m not even looking for a job. That’s because I will be applying to put myself on full disability. That’s been a tough aspect of my life that I’ve had to deal with as well. The fact that I (a) am not capable of holding a full-time or part-time position, and that (b) I could wind up in the hospital again. My brain isn’t wired all that well to handle lots of complex and difficult tasks all at once – and I could relapse at any time from things. So I try to hold back as much as I can. That’s rather tough for me…but I have managed the best that I can. So working is out of the picture…

You might think that looks like I’ll be online all the time. But it doesn’t. In the past year, I have been offline for a large portion of that time. And to be honest, I didn’t miss it that much. Certainly, I missed being able to communicate with people far away and keep up with what they were doing, but all the political BS and personal back-biting that’s taken place…I could do without. In fact, its changed my outlook ever so little…from one where I worried about what people would think…to one where I just want to live my life my own way…

A lot of folks will read that statement and try to find new ways to see things. Or to draw opinions on how I’ve changed. To be honest, I’ve changed very little in my perspective…its just that I no longer have a desire to make others see my ways. I live my life how I live my life. If others don’t like it…well…

So…there you have the first post. Its not much. But its still enough. Its my way of telling folks to live their lives the way that they want to, but to do so without infringing on what others believe. I’m not here to tell a single soul how they should live. I’m just here to talk about how I live. Its that simple.

–Tommy