The other day, I was mentally rabbitholing the connections between Sherwood Forest Faire, EarthSpirit’s Rites of Spring, and Earth Spirit People of Texas while researching the Trolls movie franchise for work and started ruminating on my own aversion to “festival” Read more
This article is an attempt to identify as complete a checklist as possible of needs, wants, and aspirational goals for establishing a sustainable intergenerational village, neighborhood, or other residential community. This article is expected to be updated as omissions or Read more
Next weekend, SMOFCon 37 will take place in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Most likely, you have no idea what that means or what it has to do with the future health of polytheism. In truth, SMOFCon doesn’t directly affect our traditions Read more
In thinking about the goal of bringing polytheist communities closer together, I thought it might be helpful to start discussing ways of assessing our existing communities and the potential changes we might encourage each other to make. Having quantifiable criteria Read more
Today is one year and thirteen days from the first blog post on this site. At the time, I was fairly reliably employed and looking forward to enough of a bonus at project completion to provide a little seed funding Read more
The last entry in this blog was nearly four months ago, in December. Shortly after that, I received a quote from the hotel and was getting ready to sign it and put down a deposit. As is right and proper, Read more
I have begun the process of setting a location and date for the first Hearthingstone PLC. I am attempting to book the hotel for January 3-5, 2020. After touching base with the hotels in the expanded search area, I believe Read more
After receiving meeting room rental estimates from five different hotels around Austin, I’ve come to the difficult decision that I need to look further afield for smaller, more affordable venues. Originally, I was looking to stay as close to downtown Read more
I’ve received a proposal from the last of the hotels I was waiting on out of about a dozen I sent RFPs to. This one gave a blanket quote for a large number of dates, which I will list further Read more
This is the fourth hotel I’ve gotten any pricing back from. This one only looked at one date despite my request for some other dates to consider. Their rate was just shy of $120 per night for Nov. 8-10, 2019- Read more
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