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Mar. 10th, 2005 @ 02:52 am It's over
Current Mood: Hopeful with Tears of Relief
Current Music: Gregorian: Brothers in Arms
The drama is over, and all parties are fine.

Kate and I are just going to be friends, Dave and I are cool once again, and all parties got it out on the table.

We are still an inner circle.

It is in this that I now know that there are things that really don't need to be written in the ol' blog.

I will still write some of my inner thoughts, as I have invested time into this blog. I will just be more picky as to what I put in here.

I feel a relief, and a sadness. As this was one of the tougher times in my life. I just wish that things could have been a little different in the beginning.

We are still an inner circle.

May you all walk in the light always.

Fin
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darkdruid2
Mar. 8th, 2005 @ 04:43 pm Awakenings
Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: Monks of the Abby of Notre Dame: Dies Irae
I sit at my computer mulling over Kate’s entry.

The only thing that I can really say here is, I am not surprised by her entry.

I can tell you that I am afraid that I may not be able to accept the changes that are coming. I have spent so much time hoping against hope that I will be the one that Kate will choose.

There are a lot of things that I bring to the table. But the idea of her not being my friend is too much to bear.

I am not afraid of her deciding that she and I will just be friends for now, or perhaps ever… that part I get, that part I can be comfortable with. I love Kate dearly, and if it was such that she and I were only friends. I can live with that. I need more friends that are as kick ass as she is.

I am afraid that Kate will decide to leave the group, because of how tight knit we are, and she doesn’t want to jeopardize that. I am afraid of losing her altogether, and I can see this dark road ahead, and I see all of it becoming this great pain.

I have had a feeling that things were going to take a turn, but I hope and I pray that it won’t go the way I see it happening.

Kate is my friend, I see within her all of the things that she has tried to hide from everyone. I see through it, I see past the façade that she has built around herself, and I see the scared little girl underneath. She is a lost soul, trying to find a place to belong, trying to make sense of all the things that have happened in her life. Trying to find people that will not just love her, but accept her, as one of their own.

I accept her, I love her, I know what it is like to be in a group and be afraid to let out the real person that is behind the mask.

True friends will see that mask for what it is and still love the one that is under it.

I see.

Now, all that is left is to take off that mask. By doing so, you will find out who your true friends are.

May you walk in the light always.

Fin
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darkdruid2
Mar. 7th, 2005 @ 09:38 pm On the Road
Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Peter Shank Show
I am coming to you from my home away from home.

Spending time out here on the farm, it really gives me time away from the events of home, and it truly gives me the chance to look at things in my life.

I am feeling more secure in my faith. As well as how I view my friendships.

The sad thing is that I have a better feeling of the world when I am here than when I am at home.

I can at least detach from the situation to a certain degree. And that gives me a bit of perspective.

Just a short update, more later this week.
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Mar. 6th, 2005 @ 10:40 pm Distance: A Poem
Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: The Cure: To Wish Impossible Things
I can feel her in my presence
Her every breath, as if my own
Separated by the unknowing hand
Drawn together by our hearts

I remember a simpler time
When her eyes were wide with anticipation
Waiting for the miracle of life
Seeing the joys of that endless cycle

Amazement of the smile that I feel
That liberating stretch of my heart and soul
Walking in the light once more
After so long of seeing what lies in the shadows

I beg for strength
To make the journey that is before me
So that she and I will become one
That I will become hers

The maiden, the mother, the crone
Blessed be to those that dwell in the eyes
of the great storm

For to her, the distance in never great
As it is a path of legend
A path of life
The distance
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darkdruid2
Mar. 6th, 2005 @ 03:22 pm Day After the Thought
Current Mood: blah
Current Music: Betablokka: Scared
I awoke from another night of fretful dreams.

I don’t really remember the dreams, but I do remember being faced with a personal tragedy. It was that feeling coupled with the fact that I was having a rough evening, that I felt like there had to be a way out.

For the first time in almost 4 years, the idea of suicide crossed my mind. I know that I would more than likely not do it. But I cannot deny the fact that the thought was there.

Several times I had the feeling that I should just speed up and meet the trees head on.

For some reason though, I stopped.

I know that suicide is not the course that I must take… but sometimes there seems to be so much darkness around me, that the idea to end the pain, is the only thought that I have.

I have been told that faith is what keeps us from taking those steps. For some reason, I have problems taking that seriously.

For me there is more than faith keeping me from making that mistake. It is my friends and family that I see every day that keep me from doing the unthinkable. I love my friends, and the thought of doing something that would destroy that is more than what I could bear.

You know, for someone that has had a kind of spiritual awakening, I really do feel hollow.

So many times I have thought about the end… what would I say, who would be there for me as I cross over. And who would carry on whatever legacy I leave behind. I fear that I will not have children, and my family name will die. I fear that I will die alone, never having shared a rewarding life with the woman that I love.

Most of all, I fear that I will die alone, and nobody will remember me. That I will be one of those poor souls that have nothing to cross over for, and be stuck on this side of the veil for the rest of time.

There are times when I think that I could just take the walk into the great void, and never return. I feel alone, even when I am in the crowd. That they are only masking the feeling that will return the moment that I (or they) leave.

I’ll more than likely be all right, I just need to get some sleep.

May you all walk in the light always

Fin
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darkdruid2
Mar. 5th, 2005 @ 07:48 pm A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: Pink Floyd: One Slip
It has been 2 days since Tina called me.

I am not sure how I really feel about it.

No.

Fact is, I feel odd about it.

Hearing her voice, for as brief at it was, seemed to make some of those old feelings churn and bubble up from under the oppressive rock that I had kept them under.

Her voice still had that some tone in it as the last time that I had heard it. The same tone that tells you that not all of what you see is what is there. The same kind of detached sound, as if under the influence of some drug.

To a certain degree I feel that I may have turned my back on her, as if I had let her down as a friend because of how I felt.

I know that I shouldn’t feel that way, but for some reason, I do.

She went on to tell me that she had a dream about me.

In this dream, I was mad at her. That I had said that she betrayed me, and also from they’re that I had a girlfriend that was mad at Tina as well, because of what had happened between Tina and I.

This would not really rattle my cage as much as it did. However, what she said seemed to ring true.

I have indeed been angry with Tina. Angry enough to the point that I have a hard time even talking about her. I know that some of the things that happened over this past summer are all part of the grand scheme of life. That the path that I have been on is for a higher purpose.

I took the message of this dream, and thought it through.

Why would I be mad?

Look at some of my previous posts to really see where that would be coming from.

Why would my girlfriend be mad?

That in and of itself is a difficult thing to pin down. As I am single, and am not currently dating anyone, I find that there is a flaw in her dream. The only thing that comes to mind about there being a hole in this theory is the possibility that the dream was not set in the present tense, and that the girlfriend in question could be the girl that I am interested in now.

Tina has had some prophetic dreams before. And I know that she and I are linked, so the possibility is that she saw what could unfold based off of what the current feelings are.

She says that she wants to meet for lunch or a drink at some point soon. If this does happen, I will have to ask her about the dream in better detail.

Time will have to tell on this one.

May you all walk in the light always.

Fin
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darkdruid2
Mar. 4th, 2005 @ 04:05 pm Karma
Current Mood: Zen
Current Music: Wyclef Jean: Yele


You Have Good Karma







In general, you like to do the right thing when it comes to others.

Your caring personality really shines through.

Sure, you have your moments of weakness - and occasionally act out.

But, all in all, you're karma is good... even with those few dark sports.


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darkdruid2
Mar. 4th, 2005 @ 04:04 pm Introvert of Extrovert
Current Mood: Zen
Current Music: Dishwalla: Angels or Devils


You Are 60% Extrovert, 40% Introvert



You are quite outgoing

You are a social connector - you know a ton of people

While you aren't a wild extrovert, you are a great talker

A fantastic storyteller, you keep everyone laughing


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Mar. 4th, 2005 @ 04:03 pm Love Number
Current Mood: Zen
Current Music: The Cure: A Letter to Elise


Your Love Number is



4




You are a creative and expressive lover - a true romantic at heart.
An introspective soul, you know exactly how your ideal relationship should be.
But if you don't get that ideal, you tend to get a bit pouty and dramatic.
You need someone who can roll with the punches, that's for sure!


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darkdruid2
Mar. 4th, 2005 @ 03:42 pm Reaffirming Zen
Current Mood: Zen
Current Music: Big Head Tood & The Monsters: Bittersweet
After waking from my slumber, I had come to the decision that I must re-dedicate myself to my beliefs.

My philosophy of faith has been one of the few things that defined me over the last few years. And in the rat race and confusion of the last year, I have really gotten away from what it was that gave me so much reason to be.

Events in my life over these few weeks have left me with a feeling that I must look inward to elicit change. That I must re-evaluate that which keeps me centered.

A conversation with Kate really made me think. I know that she and I are cool, that she is going to be my friend till the end of time. I should have never doubted it, and I am glad that she made damn sure that I knew it.

I have been feeling a bit out of sorts, and it is through my meditations this day, that I now understand that if I am to truly make a difference in this world, personal and otherwise, I must be right with myself.

I can’t be there for anyone else if I am not here for me as well.

Kate had been telling me this all along, but I was too blind to see what she was telling me. I am relieved however, that she made me see this before it was too late.

Today is the start of my renascence of faith. The day of my fresh start.

May all of you walk in the light always.

Fin
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Mar. 3rd, 2005 @ 03:37 pm Momentary Serenity
Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Hoobastank: The Reason
Sitting in a coffee house, I write my innermost feelings, to only send them out into the world, to be looked at and read by the universe.

It is moments like this that make me a little excited. Moments like these are one of the wonderful things that technology has brought us.

Right now I can talk on the phone to my family, instant message to a friend, and send out the manuscript to my latest book project… all while sipping a caramel au lait.

This is part of that quiet that I like. I love excitement, but sometimes I like the much slower pacing of the town I live in.

I have this feeling that I wouldn’t mind living here for the rest of my life. There are things that I appreciate about this town. So much of it has inspired my writing, and it seems to me that I would like to stay.

I have lived in other places before. Yet those places never felt like home.

The house that I live in does indeed smell old. It is one of the oldest houses in the town, and the feeling there is matching.

The house has a kind of aura all it’s own. Like there is a soul to the house itself.

I sometimes see the spirits in that old place as they pass on through to carry on their tasks they way they did all those years ago. I just simply live there, and observe what I can.

Time seems to pass so slowly there, the days tick by like years. All of them ending with the sound of an old mans cough, and of a cane being hung on a bed post. A telling sign of how life sometimes is so cruel when it is near the end of it’s cycle.

Dreams that are had in that house are sometimes of the surreal, others of the prophetic.

I know that I need to get away from the house, but the town seems like is wants me to stay. As if I feel comfortable here, because it welcomes me here.

These moments of serenity are what make it all seem worth it.
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Mar. 3rd, 2005 @ 12:15 am Thanks
Current Mood: relieved
Current Music: Interpol: PDA
I write this entry, with a new understanding of how things work sometimes.

I now know that sometimes one has to say exactly what is on their mind in order to elicit change, in themselves and situation.

A very close friend pointed that out to me today. I feel now in my heart of hearts that she was right. That sometimes being Mr. Nice Guy, is the wrong way to handle things.

I wish that she had been around to tell me this a year ago. I think things would have been a bit different.

I am sorry for how harsh I was earlier, but I am glad that you saw what I meant.

My feelings are the same, but perhaps you see them more clearly. I know I see what you feel with better eyes.

Thanks for the bluntness, and the savage honesty. I think it will make me better for it.

Much love, much respect.

Fin
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Mar. 2nd, 2005 @ 06:32 pm Honesty
Current Mood: pissed off
Current Music: Cowboy Junkies: Misguided Angel
OK,

So I see that I pissed you off. That WE (the collective) pissed you off.

You say that you want honesty.

Fine, that is not too much to ask. Fact is that you shouldn’t have to ask for it. Honesty is supposed to be a given.

You say that you want to be where nobody knows about your past.

I can understand that. None of the people that I have as friends have known me for more than 3 years. So forgive me if I say, been there, done that.

You are right that you have overcome a lot to get where you are.

I respect that. I have been there too, there is a lot that you don’t know, and I want to change that. I can change if you let me.

You say that you are tired of being a shoulder for everyone, and that you don’t have a shoulder for yourself. That you shouldn’t confide in the “people that want to get into your pants anyway” or the “people that think they love me after what 2, 3 months”

This is where this is going to take a turn. This is from my perspective, if you disagree, fine… but I am going to say it anyway.

You don’t have a shoulder for yourself because you really haven’t reached out to me. I ask you if something is wrong, and you just let it go, or you leave. I gave you the space because that is what you said you wanted. I don’t want to overstep my boundaries with you because I respect you.

As far as “wanting to get into your pants” goes, I want to know you, I care about you, I am your friend before anything else. You said that you trust me more than anyone else… than at least fucking trust me then. If I wanted to just get into your pants, I would have moved on by now because it hasn’t happened.

As far as “thinking that I love you” goes, if you have ever been in love before, and I have, you know when you are in love with someone. There is no confusing it for infatuation or attraction if you already know the feeling. That is just a weak fucking excuse to say that I am delusional for wanting to be with you. You need to get over yourself as far as the whole “people fall in love with me and I don’t know how to deal with it” thing goes.

You are a quality person, thus people will flock to you. People will love you, and you just need to fucking deal with that fact.

So Alex said it after a few weeks, I said it after about 3 months. So fucking what, love is love… you either feel it or you don’t. Deal with it.

You say that love exists only if you know a persons strengths and faults and you love them anyway. I believe that also.

So here is what I see…

You are afraid to rock the boat in any situation; you don’t want to put anybody out for your own gains. You know that people have spread rumors about you before, and you want to prove them wrong. In doing so, you end up hurt because there is a certain way you feel you have to be.

You are afraid to let anyone get too close, but you long for someone to love you. You fear that once someone gets to know you too well they will either use you up, or leave you abandoned. You are afraid to completely be yourself, for fear of letting anyone in. And you constantly feel that you have to set the record straight.

But your greatest fears are of being alone, and not being in control of how people see you.

You say that I don’t listen, and for that I am sorry.

You say that I need to grow, and I agree.

You say that I “think” that I love you, you are wrong about that.

Don’t let your experience with Alex be the measuring stick as to how others may feel. If you do that, you are going to cheat yourself out of something real when it comes around.

There is nothing “Childish” about love, especially if you mean it when you say it.

You say that me feeling that I am not good enough is for the most part “whining”. Trying to get you to say that I am good enough. Have you even thought of the fact that I might just be trying to tell you that you may be superior to me?

How hard is it to realize or accept the fact that you are an amazing person? How hard is it to come to grips with the fact that I had a negative opinion about you before I even met you. I was told so much shit by Scott, and saw how Alex acted about you, that I was left with a feeling that you were a really rotten person. That was a few short months ago.

Here I am now bearing some of my soul and risking you never talking to me again, trying to drive the point home that you are wonderful. That you are someone that deserves nothing less than phenomenal, I mean fuck… if you weren’t the kick ass person that I see you are, do you really think that Dave and I would be at odds?

There is nothing wrong with wanting adventure, some nice kisses, and every once in a while some good old-fashioned sex. That I will agree with you about. There is nothing like it.

But there is also nothing like being in the arms of the one that you love, and not having to think about anything else but that very moment. That is what I feel when I am with you, when I talk to you on the phone or in person.

After all of that, I hope that you can understand why it is that I am afraid to be myself around you. It is out of fear that those moments that I can forget about all of the things that plague me, will be gone forever.

That is what love is, that is how I feel. If you are still pissed, or are more pissed after you read this. Sorry. But you said that you wanted honesty.

You want me to “grow”? The first step is me taking off the gloves.

Step one over

Fin
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Mar. 2nd, 2005 @ 01:07 pm HA
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: Lay Me Down


You Are Green Tea Pocky





Your attitude: natural and zen
Peaceful yet full of life. Deep and thoughtful.
You're halfway to tantric bliss!


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Mar. 2nd, 2005 @ 11:03 am Exorcising the Demons
Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: Chris Isaak: Wrong to Love You
I just finished watching the DVD release of Exorcist: The Beginning, and I have to say that it made me think.

I seem to have come to a crossroads in my life. Those of you that really know me know that I have been going through a lot of things in the past year. These first couple of months of 2005 hasn’t been any easier. I have been faced with personal issues, family health crisis, and a seemingly losing battle with myself when it comes to what I believe.

There have been some bright spots however. The brightest of them all is that I know that I have a real good group of friends in Kate, Alex, and Brandon. They are the ones that make it possible for me to get out of bed in the morning.

I see things unfolding before me that are both beautiful, and scary. I feel like I am on the verge of something huge with Kate… and I know that there will be some issues to deal with there. Not on her end, on mine. I think I am ready for a relationship, I just hope that I am ready for a relationship with someone that is so much better than I.

Life has always had a funny way of making me see things differently. The focus of my next book will be on that very subject. As I look into the void one more time… to see what is there, and who is waiting for me.

Emotions have been running hot lately. I know that reasons are somewhat out of my control. But I take responsibility for them anyway. I know that there are so many things I want to be for her. So much I want to do to give her a life that she can be proud of… but then I also realize that she is well on her way to doing that already.

I honestly feel that I am not good enough to be her significant other. As much as I love her, I have to face the reality that I am not up to par with her.

I might be as smart as Kate, but I think that she is the most amazing person… to the point that I wonder what she would even have to do with me. I have done much in this life to this point, and I have almost nothing to show for it. All I have is the memory of it, and the feeling that I have when she is near.

It is this that brings me back to the question of faith, and if whether or not I believe what I believe. The seeds of doubt have been there for a long time. And I find myself feeling that doubt getting stronger. The only time that it seems to recede in when I am with my friends, with Kate, or both.

The feeling of the darkness has been with me ever since that night at Brandon’s house. The last time that I had a lapse into that trance like state I have fallen into before.

Since then, I have felt like I am now at one with my own dark-side, like the two sides of my personality had been fighting for a long time, and now they have agreed to be one.

I asked for that to happen, so that I can have a balance again, I have had a balance since.
And now I sit writing this, having no clue what to do now. I wish to pursue a relationship with Kate. I also wish for things to be all right with my family. All of these feelings have led to a depression that I have trouble getting out of.

I so want things to work with Kate, but I am afraid to say all of the things that I want to say to her. I am clueless as how I can be the man that she wants and needs. I am drawn to her in a way that I have only felt once before. That was the same feeling that I had when I was with Elaine. That feeling comforts me, and scares me. This time it is a more intense feeling.

I worry that she doesn’t feel anything that is close to how I feel, that she feels drawn to me, but might not be willing to love me, or accept me.

I know that this feeling should be somewhat foolish on my part. People keep telling me that I sell myself too short. I know that I do… I know that I sell myself short, I have almost always been told on a daily basis, that I am not good enough, too ugly, too fat, not smart enough, and that I am nothing special. After hearing this for long enough, you begin to believe it.

Ah, beliefs. The subject of this Rant/LJ entry, my crisis in my beliefs, what is it that I believe.

Well as the name suggests, I am a practicing Druid. I am also well versed in several other religions; the best versed is Christianity. I was studying to be a preacher, but after a falling out with the church that I had been attending, I had lost my passion for that calling.

I had been studying Druidism and the occult for a long time by then, and I would later earn the title of Druid myself.

To this end, I have felt somewhat whole with my spirituality, but there was a hole there still. An emptiness that I can’t deny is there. Kate and my friends fill that void. Kate is the only one that can make me smile, and have me not feel that it is forced. She is the only one that has made me think beyond the next day.

She once wrote about how could I know if it is love that I am feeling, the answer is that I just know. Love isn’t something that you can really explain when you feel it. You just know it when you feel it. Besides, she is the only one that can make me physically unable to speak in a concise manner. I stumble over my words like the captain of the chess team when faced with talking to the homecoming queen.

If that is not a sign of love, then I must be talking out of my ass.

She once wrote about how could I call he a Godsend, the answer is that she makes me happy, she fulfils me mentally, spiritually, and I believe that she would also fulfill me physically. She is more beautiful that any woman I have known, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

I guess my struggle with belief is more a struggle with myself; I have to learn to believe in me.

I guess reading this back to myself is what drives this point home.

Thanks Kate, you have made me realize that the struggle is really with me.

Fin
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Mar. 1st, 2005 @ 01:55 pm Well, I quess this explains alot!
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Queen: Mother Love


Your Brain is 73.33% Female, 26.67% Male



Your brain leans female

You think with your heart, not your head

Sweet and considerate, you are a giver

But you're tough enough not to let anyone take advantage of you!


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Mar. 1st, 2005 @ 01:54 pm Attitudes
Current Mood: cold
Current Music: Queen: Let Me Live
FUCK SNOWFALL IN MICHIGAN!

Due to the lovely snow that we got over night... I am now suffering from a wrenched shoulder and neck.

I HATE winter.
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Feb. 28th, 2005 @ 06:22 pm Saying See Ya Later
Current Mood: guilty
Current Music: Silence
I was hoping that you would perhaps read this entry… I didn’t get to say goodbye before you left to head back to school. I hope the drive was not too hazardous, and that I trust that you made it home safe.

Good luck on your exams, and I hope your day goes well tomorrow.
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Feb. 28th, 2005 @ 11:36 am Horoscope for the Week
Current Mood: bored
Current Music: Rant Radio Talk Stream


Taurus Horoscope for 2/28 - 3/6


This week's scenario is highlighted by you finding yourself being more dynamic and aggressive which will stimulate your romantic relationship.

You could easily lose patience with your spouse or partner and your answers will be dogmatic and final.

Your jealousy and your desire for domination also will increase.

This influence is a sign of a passionate year with intense situations.

Unless you take care to negotiate and make satisfactory agreements, there could be separations.

Your relationship with friends or associates could also become very tense and there could be frequent arguments.

You will become more domineering with the people around you.

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Feb. 28th, 2005 @ 11:06 am Jackasses and looking towards the future
Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: Silence
So I wake up this morning after the worst sleep of my life, to realize that Kate had gotten up during the night and went to sleep in another room.

To say that I am feeling like a total jackass is the understatement of the year.

I really feel like I have stepped in it, and I have no problem admitting that I was more than likely snoring like a fucking chainsaw. I know that this is a problem that I have had for several years. But the feeling that I had when I awoke, that very moment that I noticed that she was gone.

That feeling was worse than anything that I have felt before. I was worried that I ruined it. I had that feeling that I had possibly ruined any kind of comfort that she may have had with me.

The thing that sucks is that she stayed because I wanted her too. And then in the short run, I more than likely kept her from getting the rest that she needed.

I know that Kate is not a shallow person, and I also know that she wanted to stay for some reason, because I really didn’t try too hard to get her to stay. But at the same time, I also end up feeling like a total loser.

Perhaps I am just stressing for no reason, I do that after all.

We did have an interesting moment when she was holding my friends youngest son. Both Kate and I joked that their baby looks like what would happen if she and I were to have a child together. Pale skin, red hair, and blue eyes.

He or She would be a flat out beautiful baby.

That is something that makes think. I know that she would be a wonderful mother. I really don’t see how she couldn’t be. So I am left with the question… would I be a good father?

I think that would, but there are some things that you just don’t know until it happens.

Fin
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