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"It's a dangerous business, stepping out of your front door"
The best thing I ever did for my practice was going for a weekly walk in the local woods. Paganism, as taught in books, can so easily become book-bound: we learn the magical uses of the rowan, without being able to identify one. The weekly walk was time: aimless time, boundless time, experiential time. I cannot say, exactly, what I learnt there; but that too was a lesson. For it is easy to import our achievement-focused, progress-seeking mindset into Paganism - am I advancing? Am I succeeding? Am I acquiring? Rather than another way of experiencing the world: am I being, am I existing?
So the first of the Three Practices is: go for a damn walk.
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