What Passes for Political Discourse in Modern "Society"

The following is a true story.

I was stopped at a stoplight this morning, after taking Dusk in to work in DC. Heading back to our place. A guy pulls up next to me at the light, and honks his horn. I look over. The guy is looking straight at me, and holds up a placard for me to read.

"Liberalism is a Mental Disorder".

Errm... right. I'm the one with a mental disorder for being liberal. So why are you the one that's going around waving insulting prepared placards at people who have political bumper stickers you disagree with?

DISTRBO indeed. (His license plate.)

At the Core

Just a little random thought, appropriate to nothing:

I've always thought that if I ever organized a major otherkin gather of my own, I'd like to have it at a campground with cabins. My reasoning has always been that I love the chance to be out in nature, walking the trails and the meadows and through the trees, but tents just aren't that comfortable and they leak easily when it rains and they're not conducive to storing things safely or having large numbers of people camped out in them for workshops and stuff (Though i will say that the use of the pavilions for that at Thresholds in the last few years have been a great improvement during inclement weather.) Now, I'm not so sure. There are other settings that might equally suit me. A gathering at a large home in a rural area would be one example, where we could make use of both the indoor and outdoor settings as needed. Certain suburban areas might also suit my needs, depending on how they interacted with the surrounding wilderness. I'm not sure this is going to become an issue anytime soon, though I do eventually expect that I will try my hand at gather organization somewhere down the road, many years in the future, but if and when it does I'm going to take a good look at exactly what I would have hoped to get from the cabin scenario at its core and see if cabins really are the best way to achieve that, or if other options would make more sense.

Writing

Just came to a little realization about the writing I'm doing. I need to drop the shit about alchemy and the qabala. Don't get me wrong, there's some stuff there that applies to Awakening, similarities to be explored, but there's a danger of missing the underlying essence by focusing on outer form.

I need to refine this down to pure essence. To borrow a friend's turn of phrase, "something that will sing like fine crystal when tapped lightly... something that will at the same time stand up to rigorous examination." Something that will burn from within with its own light, and be the spark that stirs other flames to life in answer.

Citations and references, comparisons between paths, and other purely intellectual explorations are merely ephemera that will distract from that purity of essence in this case.