The Falling Oak - Learning How to Die
Copyright© 2018 by Darian Wolfe
Chapter 31: Christmas
Dec .26th, 2018
I hope everyone’s Christmas was good. Mine was good. I ended up at Christmas Sunday church. My wife wanted to go so we went. I had to go outside during the music because even with earplugs it was still too loud. I sat in the very back so I wouldn’t cause a disturbance if the preaching got too loud. You know Holy Rollers, if it ain’t loud it ain’t sanctified, lol. The preaching was actually quiet.
My wife picks my clothing for important occasions because she knows I don’t give a shit. I noticed she picked a shirt that covered my Heathen Tattoo. I mean Heathen in the religious sense. It’s a tattoo of Yggdrasil surrounded by a circle with specially chosen runes outside of it. Fehu for Freya, Sowilo for Sunna and Dagaz for HER. The circle stands for fidelity.
My youngest is full of surprises. She is a deep thinker and keeps her cards close to the vest. There has been some tension in our home over religion since my illness due to the “on again off again Flanagan” way my brain deals with religious issues now. I know it’s weird. I can in all honesty say I am an atheist and I believe Freya exists and Jesus too for that matter.
I know it’s a complete contradiction and I am at peace with that. I just know that at this level of granularity of reality they do not exist and at another level they do and that works for me. Anyway, since I definitely lean to the Heathen side of things it upsets my wife. So I keep it very low key and avoid arguments by interpreting her questions literally. To her all “ Pagan” things are Wiccan so when she asks me is that wiccan I can honestly say no. Then when she asks me what it is I tell her something ethnic, which is also not a lie but is an evasion. She occasionally asks me are you doing Magick and I say Yes. I will not lie to her.
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