{"id":60,"date":"2006-06-03T13:00:20","date_gmt":"2006-06-03T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2006-06-03T12:03:01","modified_gmt":"2006-06-03T17:03:01","slug":"wellspring-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/2006\/06\/03\/wellspring-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellspring 2006!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday evening I returned home from a fabulous four days at the ADF <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonecreed.org\/wellspring.htm\">Wellspring Gathering<\/a>. The folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonecreed.org\/\">Stone Creed Grove, ADF<\/a> (Cleveland, OH) did their usual fantastic job of organization and operation of the festival. Worshops on several interesting topics were given, though perhaps I shouldn&#8217;t have attended the Brewers Guild one just before my own presentation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>After an all-day seminar on ancestor worship and the making and use of ancestor dolls, Sr. Druid Earrach Canali {and several members} of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sassafrasgrove.org\/\">Sassafras Grove, ADF<\/a> (Pittsburg, PA) led a deeply moving ritual in the National Nemeton to honor the Ancestors and the Mighty Dead.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the annual meeting I was privileged to present the first three Founder&#8217;s Awards for exceptional public service in 2005 to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awensbreathgrove.org\/\">Awen&#8217;s Breath Protogrove ADF<\/a> (Hollywood, CA), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cedarlightgrove.org\/\">CedarLight Grove ADF<\/a> (Baltimore, MD), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.threecranes.org\/\">Three Cranes Grove ADF<\/a> (Columbus, OH) for volunteer work, food, blood, and financial donations in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. I hope to make such awards an annual event.<\/p>\n<p>Wellspring 2006 was four days of fun, scholarship, ritual, and communication with and between the leadership and the members of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adf.org\">ADF<\/a>. I came away from it having learned a great deal about Our Own Druidism and my own carrying capacity for home brewed beer (&#8220;What do you do with a drunken founder?&#8221;). I am deeply proud of how an idea that a few friends had in 1983 has blossomed into nearly 1,100 members and scores of groves and protogroves across North America.<\/p>\n<p>My special thanks to Bardd Dafydd and Mapf of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redoakgrove.org\">Red Oak Grove ADF<\/a> (Mount Laurel, NJ) for transporting me to and from Wellspring. I wouldn&#8217;t have made it without them!<\/p>\n<p>{This post originally posted May 31}<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday evening I returned home from a fabulous four days at the ADF Wellspring Gathering. The folks at Stone Creed Grove, ADF did their usual fantastic job of organization and operation of the festival.  <a href=\"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/2006\/06\/03\/wellspring-2006\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pagan-stuff","category-personal-happenings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}