Last Wednesday, I was named by The Kindness Campaign as their
newly-invited ad hoc commission member on the Asheville Citizens’
Police Advisory Commission (CPAC). I had suggested several others
for this post, and am humbled that I was chosen over them.
I figure it’s time to update the file I call “My Footprint”. This
is a list of all the things I’m currently doing for myself and my
community. I remind you (and myself) that this is not a complete
list.
IRL (i.e., Not Online) Groups
Asheville Homeless Network – President & co-founder; group leader Needles for the Needy
Asheville Homeless Coalition – member representing Asheville Homeless Network
Pathways Sanctuary & Seminary – Secretary-Treasurer & co-founder
The Kindness Campaign – top volunteer, Community Advisory Board, Webmaster and Staff
(Asheville City) Citizens’ Police Advisory Board – ad hoc Member,
representing The Kindness Campaign In Asheville (and Asheville Homeless
Network)
Pagans & Witches Meetups Organizer
Aide to Sri Virendra Qazi – organizing visit to US & Canada, editing papers, contacting individual supporters
Memberships
MindFreedom Support Coalition International
AARP – yeah, I’m getting old
The Witches’ Voice, Inc. – Sponsor
SerpentStone Family
Asheville Radical Mental Health Collective
many others, some listed below
Ordinations
Progressive Universal Life Church (1995, awarded Sainthood 1995)
Universal Life Church (1996, awarded Sainthood and Doctorate of Divinity 2000)
Temple of Wicca (2003, awarded Doctorate of Divinity 2003)
Orderae Occultis (2004)
Pathways Sanctuary (2006, awarded Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctorate of Divinity, Premiere, 2006)
Websites
http://moss.witchesgathering.com – personal site
http://pathwaysseminary.org
http://ashevillehomeless.org
http://ncfilk.org & http://ncfilk.com
http://blindlemmingchiffon.com
http://main.nc.us/stewardsoftheearth
http://thekindnesscampaign.org
http://heartsandcrafts.org
http://homelessrecovery.org
http://weerwolfgrove.net
Blog
http://www.xanga.com/mordewis
also see Friends Sites, below
Online Groups
owner ALT-therapies4bipolar
owner ashevillepagans
owner FreeNAMI
owner HolyMoly
owner homelessinasheville
owner livinginsiva
owner pagans_incrisis
owner pathwaysseminary
owner pathwayssemstu
moderator Bi-polar_pagans
moderator witchwords
Cyberpals
ESCoW
FilkCarolina
filkmusic
MindFreedom-Heal-Normality
MindFreedom-FreeNAMI
Pagansurvivors_abuse
revoluticon
Shaktiwicca
SpiritualBeginings
templeofloveandlight
templewicca
Forums
owner Faces of God http://cornerbarforums.com/forum/index.php?webtag=FACES
owner Cyberfilk http://cornerbarforums.com/forum/index.php?webtag=CYBERFILK
owner Alternative Health Tips & Tricks http://cornerbarforums.com/forum/index.php?webtag=ALTHEALTH
chat moderator The Realm of Be*ing http://forums.delphiforums.com/realmofbeing/start
staff Funniest Grins & Giggles http://cornerbarforums.com/forum/index.php?webtag=GRINS
member of too many forums to mention
Friends Sites
Hi5
Hyves
Orkut
MySpace
Yahoo360
Writer, Poet, Songwriter, and Performer since 1964
Given two awards for Best Poems of 2005 by Poetry.com
Over 40 lyrics published in Xenofilkia magazine
Frequent Special Guest at science fiction conventions as songwriter/performer since 1990
Hugs,
Me
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People are often illogical, unreasonable and self centered. Forgive
them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish,
ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win
false friends, and some true enemies. Be successful anyway. If you are
honest and frank people may cheat you. Be honest and frank anyway. What
you spend years building someone may destroy overnight. Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness others may be jealous. Be happy
anyway. The good you do today people will often forget tomorrow. Do
good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be
enough. Give the world the best you have anyway. You see, in the final
analysis, it is between you and god, it was never between you and them,
anyway…
– Author Unknown
Forgiveness is not an event, but rather, it is a process in healing;
for when we forgive, we lose all emotional attachment to the person and
the circumstance. When we do this, we free ourselves to receive more
goodness in our lives
– Bobbie Gonder
Love, compassion, and tolerance are necessities, not luxuries. Without
them, humanity cannot survive. If you have a particular faith or
religion, that is good. But you can survive without it if you have
love, compassion, and tolerance.
– His Holiness the Dalai Lama
We must strive to do anything that can make the impossible and
miraculous possible. A whole realm of good things opens up for us if we
adhere to this
way of thinking. Life is made for aspiration and for manifesting the impossible.
– Ajahn Sumano Bhikkhu and Emily Popp