Last night was interesting. My need for contact with a willow tree is satiated now. The priest of our sister grove was in attendence last night, and brought me a willow wand with sopadine stone (sp) as a life anniversary present. It caught me completely caught off-guard. Last night’s ritual was wonderful, at one point, I blanked out, as if I wasn’t even there, and didn’t ‘wake up’ till I reached the elder mother of our grove. I can’t even remember what I was blessing people with (though, I did catch myself blessing someone with the wrong thing, I think). I’m not sure if I was imagining myself doing the previous blessing, or if I actually was. But that is fine, all went well. I’ve got much thinking and pondering of discovery for this next year. I have growth that must be accomplished, and I can’t avoid it now.