Contemplating

[Ashen]

So between lack of time on my part and lack of activity on the board I've thought seriously of stopping the page all together and just deleting it. If someone really wants to take over that'd be fine with me but while I'd be interested in Howls that section hasn't been touched in years and taking a vacation seems impossible as it is... I've completed school - become a Vet Tech and Practice manager of a general practice clinic for cats and dogs. Therianthropy is still a part of my life but it such an integrated way I can't say there is a difference and the new generation of entitlement / I can be anything I want just sickens me. I'm afraid it is inevitable that therianthropy will (kinda already has) been sucked into this with 'trans-specism' while I can't wholly disagree I believe there has to be a line somewhere and there's just some things you don't openly force on others in public society and maintain a life.. maybe I've just grown up but while I'll never deny what I am I can't see it as therianthropy anymore nor do I have any time with work and 9 animals and hopefully land and a wildlife center to keep up the board as well. Look me up some time -- I plan on keeping the name for my Wildlife Center --- Forest Horizon

Ashen

[wolfvanzandt]

Congratulations on your graduation.

I certainly understand.

Online therianthropy has turned into Ommmmmm-line therianthropy (New Age gobbledygook), but the real life community is still out here. If you're ever in Denver, look us up.

Stay in touch.
Stay well.
Wolf

[yarrow]

Ashen, I hear what you are saying about not having time, and as a homesteader with two small children and many, many animals I can readily agree.
But I also want to introduce myself and humbly ask you to consider handing the forum over to another so that it may actively (even if intermittently) continue.
I am 41 years old. Only within the past several months, after years of sustained and mostly solitary spiritual practice, have I stumbled upon definitions that adequately explain what I have always known about myself and my own identity, and one of those key definitions is therianthropy or were. Let me reiterate that I am currently 41 years old. It has been so critically important to me to stumble upon this forum and be able to access the thoughtfulness and just outright wisdom I have found here. I just joined and have posted nothing yet, not even an introduction, but I have been reading the past posts and absorbing the discussions and wisdom and shared experience in them like water. It has been so important to find this forum and read from people who just so clearly feel like "family" or "tribe" or "kin" to me. There has been literally nothing else I could find online that has not been run by 15 year old "dragonkin" -- which I am not necessarily passing judgment on, but it is not what some of us need. I can say sincerely that right now, I need this forum, which is purely selfish. You don't actually know me at all so I don't know what i can offer you to put my money where my mouth is, so to speak, but I can tell you that the willingness to be an active and supporting part of the community is there on my part if it could ever keep this forum alive. There is a prayer to the ancestors by Raven Kaldera that is very meaningful to me, and I'd like to share part of it with you in paraphrase: "May I remember that what I do affects a million, million souls I will never know," and just leave that with you as an expression of thanks for what you have done and to let you know how meaningful this is to others, even when you've grown past your initial role in it. Thank you.

[Ashen]

Wolf - Thanks! I it took two and a half years to give up everything in my life to accomplish and I'm glad it's done.. I desperately miss Brushy Lake -- even have a picture from there on my debit card -- if I can ever make it to the Denver are I will most certainly be in touch it has been too long since I've been camping let alone hiking and miss it as well as just a campfire / howl in general.

Yarrow your words are touching and welcome -- I'm not planning on doing anything soon just throwing the idea out there in warning that it's on my brain -- I would like to see the board more active if possible and if there is a person willing to take it over I'll work with them in the time frame..if it keeps my name I want my values as well -- also the idea behind keeping the wildlife center the same name -- the process I've gone thru in my life with therianthropy, finding myself, finding the online community, losing touch with the community as social media and the 15 yr old dragonkin as you put it seem to take it over I do see this the one haven for those like me.

Thank you.

[wolfvanzandt]

Aye. (dragomkin) I'm still out there, but it gets discouraging sometimes with all the fluff.

[yarrow]

WVZ I found your site and am gratefully plowing through Therian Timeline, too. I am awed and thankful for your work.

[wolfvanzandt]

Thanks, it's growing slowly.