[Cro Dreoilin] Intro

[Kelley Forbes]

Of course (!),  Scottish and Irish are not interchangable. Chris said 
this really insightful thing yesterday at the Reading Group meeting, 
about the sameness and differences between the various Celts as being 
like a slope, everything from the very basics of shared belief amongst 
all the Celts, from Gaul to Ireland; to the (almost) exact sameness of 
belief in a single tribe.

The thing with reconstructionism is that we don't have the level of 
information necessary to reconstruct the beliefs on the level of the 
tribe, so you have to reach farther to get enough info. Reconstructive 
efforts sometimes have to reach quite far abroad to find enough 
evidence. Get too broad, of course, and you start to run into variances 
of practice or belief.

So, it's a balancing act. Most recon groups that I have heard of are not 
pan-Celtic, but many have no problem calling themselves Gaelic or 
Insular or Continental.

You don't have to be pan-Indo-European just 'cause your ancestors were 
from France; after all, France _was_ where Gaul was. Ancestry shouldn't 
dictate interests you otherwise wouldn't have, you know?

I would love to hear some stories people have about their own paths and 
what brought them to the point they are at now.

The link I sent you to greatly underestimates the amount of snow a 
Colorado Hooker drops. The last one I remember dropped 4 feet at our 
house. It was great! We also had a tropical storm hit us sometime in the 
early 90s that came from the Gulf; it started as a hurricane and just 
kept going.  To my recollection, most thunderstorms in this area are fed 
with warm, moist air from the Gulf. We had a beaut, yesterday.

We do announcements and want to promote talk of Celtic spirituality, but 
this is a "Community" list and is supposed to be for anything the 
community wants to talk about, although we may someday have an 
"Announcements Only" list, if people want it. The mere act of discussion 
and debate can be seen as a religious act for the Celt. :-)

So, please share your thoughts about homeschooling. I'd be interested to 
know if you are taking a more secular education approach or a more 
religious approach in your homeschooling and if there exist Pagan 
homeschooling materials, that you know of?

Have you had a chance to read the FAQ? Any questions?

-- Kelley.

whitewaterider wrote:
> Well, to answer, I am obviously still wandering through the woods, so 
> to speak, considering the fact that I studied Wicca (off and on, sorta 
> kinda) for years, never even HEARD of Druids, then stumbled there.  
> ADF was about the closest I had found as of yet, and the particular 
> grove I am attached to does focus on Celtic Hearth Culture, although, 
> they tend to lean more Irish, whereas my heritage is Scottish, which 
> as time goes on I am learning are NOT interchangeable as certain folks 
> would have me believe.... but that is another matter.  I guess I would 
> kind of fit into the Pan-Indo thing, though, because I am also of 
> French heritage.  But as time goes on, my path often seems to have a 
> lot of forks, a few spoons and many knives... ;)
>
> ANYWAY.... 
>
> OK, I looked Colorado Hooker up....... Sadly, we don't get our own 
> weather apparently.  You're welcome?
>
> Pagan Home Schooling is much like Christian Home Schooling, only with 
> Pagans instead of Christians.  Did that help?  =D
>
> Actually, if you are not familiar with home schooling in general, I 
> can describe it and all the different methods and so on, but I am 
> going to assume that would be more appropriate off list.  What I said 
> sounds like a very simplistic joke, but that is really it pretty much, 
> in a nut shell.  I am happy to answer questions and whatnot about home 
> schooling, but yeah.... off topic here a bit, I think.  So, feel free 
> to contact me privately.  Just make sure you put something in the 
> "subject" line as blank subject lines from unfamiliar email addys tend 
> to get tossed into the spam folder.
>
> OK, I am happy to be here!  Even if it is only virtually.  I have not 
> gotten the book that was mentioned in the last thread about it yet, 
> but plan to.  Even if I can't get the bennies of the physical being 
> there discussion, perhaps if anyone discusses it here, I can 
> participate at least somewhat. 
>
> OK, That's it I guess!
> Otter
>
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>
> I find it interesting that you say you are in ADF and are drawn to 
> things Celtic, since one of the main points of ADF is that they are 
> not Celtic, but rather "pan-Indo-European".
>
> You may never visit, but your weather makes it here all the time. :-) 
> Look up "Colorado Hooker". 
> http://www.9news.com/weather/resources/glossary/C.aspx
>
> I'd love to hear about Pagan homeschooling!
>
> -- Kelley.
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