Current mood:	cheerful
Entry tags:	introduction, mission

'Allo out there
This is my first post in my spankin' new Inksome journal.  :)  I thought I might use it as an introduction, not so much of myself, but of what I'm trying to accomplish here. 

I'm a pagan magician living in the Midwest U.S.  This journal is the outcome of a snide remark I heard once about pagans, which was basically to the effect that all pagans were self-centered jerks, and you never would hear "pagan charity" become a common phrase the way that, say "christian charity" is.  To that, I say [insert something rude here].  Some of the most amazingly giving, involved human beings I've ever known have been pagan.   We tend to fly under the radar of philanthropy though, for a couple of reasons.  One is that we tend to join existing charitable or activist organizations rather than start our own.  Another is that we often tend towards lives that lead us primarily to spiritual or social gain rather than monetary gain, so we tend to be donors of time rather than funds.   And, of course, we are famously unwilling to stand in line and be counted for things - too much focus on us makes a lot of us nervous, and even if we can comfortably be looked at, we are often unwilling to be identified as pagan in the public eye. 

But we're out there.  We're doing the work (whatever we perceive the work to be).  I believe that the next step for me is to temporarily abandon the Fourth Power of the Sphinx and start talking.  I want to talk about what I'm doing.  I want to talk about what you're doing.  I want to share my ideas about things we could be doing.  I want to be inspired and inspiring.  I want to use the mighty connective power of the internet to drive change.  Are you in?

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