Did you know that Isaac Bonewits was a member of ADF? It's true! I found this card in a folder labeled "ADF Dedicant Program": "Philip Jameson" was one of the many pseudonyms that Isaac used when writing. Evidently he was checking up on how the ADF looked to a newcomer, or what materials were sent to them.…
After several months, and many long hours in front of a scanner, I’ve mostly completed copying Isaac’s files. It was a huge pile of paper, about thirty large boxes; apparently he never threw away anything he’d written or received. (It’s "mostly completed" because Phaedra still has some boxes of his unsorted papers in North Carolina.)
This was hard to watch, remembering what it was like for Isaac. I absolutely agree with Sir Terry Pratchett on this issue.
My name is Bill Seligman. I am writing a biography on the life of Isaac Bonewits. I intend to tell the story of his life; how he influenced the Neopagan, Druid, and Wiccan communities; and to include a generous share of "Isaac stories." It will be a biography, not a hagiography; I don't think he'd want his image to be polished (nor tarnished!) from anything other than what it was.
...will be a description of my biography project. If you know me or you've been reading my blog posts, you've seen all this stuff already. I'm starting a new phase of the research: contacting and interviewing people who were important in Isaac's life. I want to be able to give them a link to a page that describes…
... and sometimes that's loaning money to a friend, even when the word "loan" is probably in quotes. It's a chunk of change. But it's a small price to pay if I get to sleep soundly at night.
It was a rough scanning session tonight. The only way I could get through it was to fantasize that, somehow, doing all of this was going to get me laid. I'm usually not that crude. But scanning is usually not this difficult. Isaac, Isaac, Isaac... why did you have to print out so much stuff on fan-fold…