Priestessly Open Office Hours, December 26th

[dr_pretentious]

I've been wanting for some time to come help out the DC and Baltimore area Blue Star folks. At long last, I know when I will have time off from the round of family holiday things to give some time to the Pagan community on this trip.

Anyone who wants to talk about the Blue Star tradition of Wicca is welcome to find me between noon and 6pm on Tuesday, December 26th, at the Starbucks/Barnes & Noble at Montrose Crossing, where Montrose Road intersects with Rockville Pike. Feel free to drop by at any time during those hours. I will do my best to bring my brain, so that it can be available for picking.

Admittedly, the site does limit the possibility of ritual demonstration, but it has the advantage of providing food that none of us has to cook and space that none of us has to clean. With so many of us having to balance our own Yule celebrations with various other kinds of familial holiday obligations, I figured a public meeting place would be least stressful for everyone, even if Rockville Pike traffic on December 26th can be daunting.

If you want to let me know that you're coming, or when, feel free to reply here, but no RSVP is necessary. I'm thinking of this time as open office hours. If I have some stretches to myself, I'll get some writing done. If there's non-stop conversation, that'll be great, too.

I don't have access to the DC area Blue Star email list. If someone who does have that access could repost this information there, I would take it as a great kindness.

Comments

[oldsma.livejournal.com]

I wish I could be there, but I will be tied up all through that time. Give my holiday regards to your family and please tell your sister that I will be at that Baptist church tomorrow as ordered. With my own gigantic Interpreter's Study Bible as camouflage. (And she has my permission to tell you that story if you haven't gotten it from my LJ.)

MAO

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to ask her. If fate decreed that you had to have a divorce that sucks on an epic scale, at least you got some comedy out of it.

[sligoe.livejournal.com]

I've posted the message onto the DC yahoo list. If you'd like to be added, I can request that as well, but I need an e-mail address for you.

I don't know how many of us can be there---I will be entertaining family on that day, and at least one of our members nad her husband is out of state at the moment. I truly appreciate your kind offer---and I am so excited at the possibilites of working with you! Thank you for extending the offer and making yourself available for us--I know the rest of the grove appreciates this as well. :)

Hugs!

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

Thanks much. I've been meaning to join that list for a while.

[oakleaves.livejournal.com]

Sounds great. Break a leg. :)

[jasminewind.livejournal.com]

T has an appointment that he needs my help with sometime during the day but I think that I can make it for a couple hours to see you again!

[castalusoria.livejournal.com]

Am sorry not to be home then, otherwise would be definitely interested to come and listen, if that'd be allowable some other time?

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

Of course it would. I hope to catch up with you next time around. It was lovely having you at our place for Yule.

[awritersweekend.livejournal.com]

Can't make it (!) but we'll be thinking of you as we go to a movie and eat Chinese food.

[wayzgoose.livejournal.com]

Wish I could be with you for the quest, but it is a mere 3000 miles distant. Now with the Solstice a couple of days behind us and a noticeable change in the length of day only a few days away, I'm wishing you and yours a great new year and hope you will find it filled with scholarly and creative success.

Best wishes.

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

Thank you. And a happy new year to you and your family, too.

In light of global warming, we did make our Solstice morning coffee offering to the sun decaf. About an hour later, though, one of our number insisted that, since the problem is our treatment of the earth, and the sun's just going about its business, we shouldn't short the sun over our misdeeds. So, high-test coffee and a second breakfast of sunflower seeds for the sun.