Since changing the web site structure, there’s some address changing happening it seems!

NOTE: The feed URL for the Northern Druid Podcast has changed to:

http://www.northerndruid.net/category/podcast/feed

If your iTunes feed does not update, you can subscribe manually in iTunes:
Advanced –> Subscribe to Podcast –> (enter URL above) –> Click OK

Thank you all for your patience through the site changes!

This one went out a month back on my YouTube channel for my friend, Genevive for her birthday!  Enjoy “Defying Gravity” from the musical Wicked.  Where are YOU defying gravity in your life?? :)

Don’t you just want one for your back yard?  Enjoy the ‘Bouncy Stonehenge’!

Shifting Druid Paradigms

This is a longer podcast to make up for all the lost time!

Songs Include:
“Ode to Ireland” by Rebecca Hilton
“Is it for Freedom” by Sara Thomsen

Topics covered:
What I’ve been up to when I wasn’t recording podcasts
Moving, the loss of my Grandmother, a threatening situation, and life now owning a car
Should Druidry be free? Should it cost money? What is fair?
Pagan groups and financial strength
Should all Druids be ‘liberal’? Are there conservative or libertarian Druids?
Changing Political climate
Looking at “lesser thought of” intuitive people, hunters, preppers, new age bias
Importance of Diversity and multiple paradigms in 2012.

Meditation on Spring and expectant energy!

Enjoy!!

I almost didn’t post this because I don’t like giving the darkness any attention. However, I think it’s valuable for folks to see what some of us are up against, and just how radical the right wing can get. Put yourself in a protective and peaceful place, and hold your compassion and love next to you, and even for the presenters in this video if you are able. Now more than ever we need to open up to the beauty and wonder of Nature, and to continue our work as stewards of Mother Earth.

Putting up more videos on YouTube lately. Here’s my cover of Stars from Les Miserables. I also share in the beginning how I’m capturing sound and some inexpensive hardware I use. Enjoy!

2012 is the year of video! I have better lighting so look for more video updates from me. Here’s me singing, I Dreamed a Dream from Les Miserables, along with some of my helpful hints for using your laptop’s camera (plus what my screen looks like for a time when I use Screenflow for Mac). Enjoy!

The world is stunned by the death of Steve Jobs. Throughout all of his technological innovation, even he could not stop death. In my other life as a web designer, I wrote about my own Apple Story. Take a look if you like.

But one of the most compelling pictures, which I found on The Daily’s site, has just struck me, and this is how I want to remember Steve Jobs.

The caption for this photo by Diana Walker reads, “This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that’s what I had.”

Why is this photo speaking to me so loudly right now?

For many of you who follow my blog or know of my journey, you’ve seen me evolve from a techy to a massage therapist to a fledgling coach, to a webmaster, and often times a strange mixture of all of those things!  But I absolutely cherish those times where I feel I’m in the middle of a breath in the “in-between.”

That’s where I am right now.

Things are changing in life and I’m at a crossroads with what to do on my “holistic” side.  My web design business has once again taken a leap of growth, and now having to hire an occasional assistant.  I have tons and tons of notes and ideas for NorthernDruid in my Evernote Notebooks spanning the last two years, but I’m realizing that what I’m truly searching for is a place of simplicity, peacefulness, solace – like the North Woods where I often bring you my Northern Druid Podcast.

The podcast has been a great success for me, and I hope that the folks who listen get a glimpse of life in Minnesota and that I’ve brought that relaxation of the North Woods to you.  Whatever direction I go from this moment – I’ll be keeping the podcast, you can count on that.

However, I won’t lie.  I’ll be “clearing the deck” at some point very soon, and from that point, I’ll be bringing forth something new.  I’m not sure what yet, but I know that it’s coming.

I ask you all to stay tuned.  Breathe.  Find your own “in-between” breath too.

Life is change, and change is coming!  I’ll see you all soon!

Acheiving Balance on the Fall Equinox

Ending Meditation on Balance with the elements of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water.

I’ve been making a few additions and changes recently to the space here, and thought I’d fill you in on a few things!  More changes are afoot, but I’ll save those for another blog post!

1. Page Re-Naming and Re-arranging:  To make it easier for navigation and remembering, I’ve changed a lot of the page names and where they show up.  Druid Offerings is now just “Services” .  Earth Ethics has moved under About Me, and I’ve made some page titles more clear as to what they are about!
2. Tarot Readings!! I’m now doing my Tarot Readings at a new site I developed called Tarot for Coffee.
   This is a fun site where I’ve married (maybe handfasted) my love for the Tarot and my passion (maybe addiction) for Coffee.  I blog about a lot of topics like weekly tarot readings, fun coffee momements, etc.  I hope you like it!
3. New Video/Audio of me singing on the Vocal Performance page!
   Here it is for you too!  Me singing “Gravity” by Sara Barielles.