Merry Meet all, To those who know me and to those who don't merry Meet, hummm where to begin lets start at the begining I was Born on June 15th 1963 in a small town called Van Wert Ohio, I lived with my birth parents till I was 2 years old when I was removed from my home with one of my sisters and placed into an orphanage where I lived for 2 years. I met my adopted mother in the orphanages infirmary after I broke my leg on the play grounded I was adopted when I was 4 and lived in Fort Wayne Indaina, after a year we moved to Maryland
The next eight years of my life things where very trying I lived under the roof of a very abusive father, not that he meant to be, just I believe did not know of any other way to handle my wild ways, I questioned and challenged everything he believed in. I know in his own way he loved me and I am sure that my mother adored me. My parents were never church goer's but they did send my brother and I to sunday school class's every sunday, where I questioned at every turn what they were trying to teach me. When it came to school work I was an average student, but was credited even then with "charisma" I was a very inward type of child never really shared much about me with anyone, nor my veiws on "God" except one man who use to come by once and awhile and preach"the word" to my brother and I, my mother always incouaged me to explore my spiritual life. which I did .
At the age of 14 I went to Military school for a half a year when I tryed to kill myself and was expelled, Immediately my parents had me commited to a institution and for the next 4 years I went from one institution to another in which time I "Found" Jesus and became born again ( He was hiding under my bed all that time.......lol), but my interest into the occult also began around that time after I read the Satanic Bible, my interest in astrology had been with me since a small child, while in the instutions I discovered I would be in school till I was 23 before graduating , inrolled into the GED program after much fighting with my Phycologist, and after several months took the exam and passed with flying colors to their surprise, not mine mind you for they did not believe I could do it I on the other hand just knew I could.
As I was kistened into adult hood I bounced back in forth to and from christainity, as I wandered the roads living on and off the streets for many years til I was 24 - 25 and had returned to school with much reservation I enrolled into AACC majoring in Mass Communication, during which time aI became active in community organizations I was apponted to my surprise to Chairman of the Public relations Dept for the AACo YR's for 4 years, I also got involved with the collages Radio station 1st as a DJ then as Program Director, I also wrote for the Schools Paper and magazine.
After leaving shool in 1988 I traveled around the United States kinda lost again not knowing which way to go I was in sales where ever I ended up I have sold so many things form Jewlery to clothing to satellite dish's I also work in the restuarant industry, and one time I even work for Universal studio's in Fl.
In 1984 I was introduced to my 1st mentor who tutored me in Eclectic wiccan path, he incouraged me to go with my instincts and learn what I needed and he was there to help answer questions as they arised and give support as needed, I studied everything from Wicca reading stuff from Buckland, and Cunningham and many other authors, I studied everything from wicca to the Golden Dawn, read material on high Majick to the Necomancer, and slowly but surly became a full fledge Pagan, After my tutors death in 1991 from Bone marrow cancer I started roaming around again learning more and more about people and their ways still growing as a Pagan, in 1994 I returned to Maryland to help a elderly freind who was dying and was there when he passed away in Dec of 94, I went into a major depression and ran off and joined a carnival where I met Heidi a few years later and for those whom have read her introduction know the rest of the story. >:D
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-- Edited by RevDavcurand at 05:47, 2004-12-04
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