For anyone who follows my overly-melodramatic stories about my health: After a single day of rest, I feel fine. This in itself is a blessing; when I catch a bad cold, it normally knocks me out for five days. Only a day of nasty symptoms is so unusual for me, I can't remember the last time it…
I had just started walking to lunch today (yay, exercise!) when I started coughing. This was no minor cough. It was a five-minute coughing fit with lots of disgusting side symptoms. I inched my way back to my car and drove to get lunch. At this moment my chest feels sore, but I'm not sure if it's…
OK, Internet, let's see what you can do. If you know how to reach any of the people listed below, would you please send me contact information or arrange and introduction? In connection with my work on the biography of Isaac Bonewits, I'd like to get in touch with Ron Wright. He was an editor of Gnostica…
When I started this LJ blog, I felt I should be anonymous. I picked a name of personal significance to me, crytolos, that would have no meaning to anyone who didn't know me.Things have changed in the past three years. Facebook has eroded the concept of internet privacy. Also, now I'm using my blog as an information-gathering…
Tonight I sit down to have dinner and watch a movie. I set up the meal, sit down, turn on the DVD player.
Then the chair collapses under me.
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.