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[darchildre]

So, this morning I did a thing that I've been thinking about doing for a while - I set up a Kitsap Heathens group on meetup.com. I have a meet-and-greet at a coffee shop scheduled for a couple of weekends from now and, well, we'll see if anyone shows up.

I am kinda super nervous about it because oh gods, new people, there are all kinds of anxieties surrounding new people, not to mention the heathen-specific anxieties. (What if they all think I'm terrible? What if I totally fail at being an organizer of meetup things? What if I am actually really bad at being heathen and don't know it because I've always been solitary? What if they all hate Lokeans? What if they all turn out to be right-wing survivalist crazy people?)

None of that is terribly likely, of course, (except maybe the Lokean thing) but it goes through my head and if I write it down, maybe I won't worry about it when the time comes. In any case, it will probably end up being a neutral-to-good thing with the potential for being great, so right now I am nervous but optimistic.

::fingers crossed::

Comments

[finch]

Good luck! I have met good heathens, I promise. ;)

[silveradept]

Everyone will hopefully be well-behaved, and it will be well-attended.

[sophiacatherine]

Great idea - hope it goes well! I go to a monthly heathen group here, and they're all lovely and accepting and even let their Gaelic cousin share the mead with them. Britain is a different place from America, and all paths here seem to be very free and easy and non-fundamentalist, but I've no doubt that there are lovely heathens in other places too. Enjoy!