Why, Morgan?

     Why sniff the dewy depths of a freshly opened rose? Why watch the proud sun slowly descend below the ends of the Earth? Why greedily, gleefully slurp up the first worm of the summer? What's that? You haven't been slurping up the first worm of the summer? You don't slurp up any worms at all? You don't even slurp all that often?

    Strange...

    But then you're probably wondering why I made this blog. Well, alright then. Be patient and I'll tell you! It's not nice to rush people, you know.

    Now then, where was I... Right, right, the blog. Why did I make that thing again? Oh, I remember. Yes. I remember exactly why. I just don't want to tell you right now. Well, of course I could. Of course I really remember, what's that supposed to mean? And why do you ask such silly questions, anyways?

    Okay, geez! Relax, I'll tell you...

    I made this blog as a place to share the field notes and musings from a magical life. The life of a wonderful, beautiful person... Me! Morgan Holloway's the name. You already knew that? It says so right across the top? Heh, yeah, it sure does... Pretty nice, right? And wow! That's a great blog title! You can't just get ChatGPT to come up with something like that, friend, let me tell you. You really have to use your brain to produce that sort of brilliance. You don't know what it means?

...Sigh.

    Well, just Google the words. You can figure it out. What, you don't want to? Oh grow up! It isn't even that hard. Fine, I'll break it down for you. No, not with interpretive dance, you idiot!

        Esoterica = Secret knowledge.
        Marginalia = Notes in the margins of a book.

    I really can't believe you made me do that. It feels like I just explained a joke. Now the punchline's ruined. Anyways, I was talking about my favorite subject: ME!

    I've been a Baptist. Then I was Wiccan. I briefly practiced a Norse neopagan religion called Asatru. I dabbled in a little LaVeyan Satanism, but I never committed! That bald guy with the funny ring freaked me out too bad! I was only a teenager...

    Then, after that I tried Buddhism. That was fun. I became Christian again eventually. I was baptized in a Lutheran church. I became a Bahai'i for a while, but that didn't take either.

    And now?

    I'm a member of the Correllian-Nativist tradition's Outer Court. I'm a candidate member of the Ancient Order of Druids in America. I'm an Apprentice in the magical discipline of Quareia.

    I read voraciously. I love to learn. I learn about people's lives, their beliefs, and the systems that help them understand the world and develop as humans. I've dabbled in just about everything magical from Hermes Trismegistus to Scott Cunningham.

    Dear reader,

        I don't rightly know where my path takes me, for it is a winding road I've traveled by mighty altar and moonlit grove alike, but I know my purpose thusly:

        To live, to learn, to read, to write, and to share.

    Care to join me?