Video Coming to Order of Scathach Training Blog

We're going to be adding training video to the Order of Scathach Training Blog to enhance the learing experience for our on line members. Here's some of our knights reciting the code of chivalry of our Order.

In Her Service, Kerr Cuhulain

Imbolc and Other Sabbats

I've just posted an Imbolc recipe on my fantasy writer blog: Its one of the recipes from my new cookbook on Smashwords: Ancient Recipes for Modern Kitchens. I've also updated all of the rituals for our Order of Scathach on the Order's Training Blog. We're celebrating Imbolc this coming weekend, which includes candle making: The accompanying photo shows one of our young people making candles at last year's celebration. If you're curious about what we do for Sabbat celebrations, you're welcome to have a look.

In Her Service, Kerr

I've just published a cookbook for Sabbats and Esbats. Ancient Recipes for Modern Kitchens presents 119 recipes from antiquity along with their history modernized for your use. They are organized to reflect the turning of the seasons of the year. This book helps modern people celebrate in ways that would be familiar to their ancestors and honor their traditions while at the same time improving upon what our ancestors had to work with. You can check it out at: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/36267
In Her Service, Kerr

Survived New Years Again

Extremely busy night at work last night. 2 thousand 911 calls handled and when I left at 7 AM after 12 hours of non stop stupid we were already 400 police incidents into the new year. My friends helped me through it with a wonderful Yule celebration. The photo shows how I dressed to dispatch at Christmas.

Check out my first e book Modern Knighthood on Smashwords.com

Have a wonderful New Year.

In Her Service, Kerr

Modern Knighthood Is Here!

I've just entered the realm of e publishing for the first time with my first e book- Modern Knighthood: Unleashing Your Inner Warrior to Master Yourself and Your World. What I started with my earlier books (Wiccan Warrior, Full Contact Magick, and Magickal Self Defense) all comes together in this book about unleashing your inner power. Knighthood isn't about appearance, but action, not about tinsel but tenacity, not about glitter, but genius, not about fashion, but faculty. You can check it out at Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/34975

Malpas Wassail Song

Now the harvest being over

And Christmas drawing in

Please open your door

And let us come in

With our wassail!

Chorus:

Wassail, wassail

And joy come to our jolly wassail!

Here's the master and mistress

Sitting down by the fire

While we poor wassail boys

Do trudge through the mire

With our wassail!

Here's the master and mistress

Sitting down at their ease

Put your hands in your pockets

And give what you please

With our wassail!

This ancient old house

We will kindly salute

It is your custom

You need not dispute

With your wassail!

Here's health to the master

And a long time to live

Since you've been so kind

And so willing to give

With our wassail!

Here's the saddle and the bridle

They're hung upon the shelf

If you want any more

You must sing it yourself!

With our wassail!

You can check out the music for this at: http://youtube.com/watch?=MNMSc6Hb2Pw

The Isolation Trap

There is a trap that first responders like police officers fall into. It works like this:





First responders typically spend their days dealing with an endless round of tragedy. Every day they deal with people who stop communicating with words and start communicating with fists. All week they attend an interminable series of accidents and heartache too often caused by someone's stupidity. All month they deal with an ceaseless see of faces of people trapped in addictions which are fueled by a life of crime. You may think that the upcoming Christmas season, advertised as a time of peace and goodwill to mankind, would be an exception to this. That's not the police officer's perception. Christmas is the time of year when people who haven't seen each other for a long time get together, have a few drinks... and then remember why they haven't seen each other in a long time. For the cop, Christmas is an unending series of interventions in violent domestic squabbles. The world is a chaotic and often dangerous place.





Here's the trap: Because this is all they see in a backbreaking schedule of lengthy shifts and overtime, they sink into the perception that this is all there is out there. That, as you might imagine, is a pretty depressing place to be.





First responders aren't alone in this. On my daily walks I frequently pass people plodding to the bus stop, the store, the appointment, head down, shoulders hunched, avoiding eye contact, fearful of the world around them.





So here's what we all need to do for one another. When you pass that person in the street, say hello. When you're at the store, hold the door for the person behind you, and say hello.





That's it. Just smile and say hello.





By doing this you're reminding these people that this chaotic world doesn't just contain tragedy, that the bedlam they percieve actually has some sane inhabitants. There are good people out there, though we sometimes don't notice them. It doesn't hurt to remind others about that. Actually it makes a big difference, because it makes people feel that they have a purpose and that they are not alone. Especially at this time of the year.



For more thoughts about Yule, check out the Order of Scathach blog: http://scathachisland.blogspot.com/

In Her Service, Kerr