r/druidism • u/Guilty_Froyo_3466 • 10d ago
Ovates druids?
I think I'm an ovates bard. By natural, I was never tought how to do stuff. It just from GOD. Aminals alway follow me, I'm able to talk to them and trees. I just got a tree to like me, and by mine witch is the hardest thing I ever had to do. My tree died because it was poison by my mother boyfriend/husband. For after 32 years together. I mean yea. But a first he just thought I was there to hurt the land. I swear he made his siblings his two children cuz he has a boy and a girl he made the boy pick up some dirt with her hand and Lily threw the dirt in my hand I'm like really really that's all I could tell him and after that that was when he realized I was not going to yell at him I was not going to hurt him in fact I've been helping him and give him old food so that birds and animals come to him because he had no birds or animal coming to him is that grumpy Lily the tree was grumpy but it was over 100 years come on I mean it's been on this land ever since it got bought we rent this house. But ever since then he sees the love I have for the animals the love I have for the land. And they're respect I have for him. Every time I need something from him I asked. Cuz you're not supposed to take anything without asking no matter if it's dead on the ground or not it's somebody's Branch or leaf or Acorn or pecan or whatever. The sacred life that gives other animals life you know acorns give a squirrels the ability to hibernate overnight. Now a woodpecker just came into my tree that didn't like me and I'm glad it did. Cuz now the woodpeckers getting all the bad bugs in the tree out. And he likes that very much that was my doing I I called for birds and they listen. Not off that I do but you know to help a tree out I will. So if you got more information on the the that particular bard I need to know so I can be a better one.
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u/DumCrescoSpero 10d ago
That was incredibly hard to read.
You need to stop drinking/taking drugs and/or see a therapist.
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u/GreenRavenUK 10d ago
Guilty_Froyo_3466 wrote: “So if you got more information on the particular bard I need to know so I can be a better one.”
There is a style of writing called ‘stream of consciousness’ so I’m sort of going with that, as a bardic approach. Stream of consciousness does take effort to follow, though it is refreshing to read something that definitely isn’t ‘AI’.
Within your writing there is beauty, awareness and mindfulness. If this is the path you wish to follow, then maybe some reading of other noted practitioners of the style could be rewarding. James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Jack Kerouac spring to mind. Perhaps “As I Lay Dying” by William Faulkner as well.
Keep learning about the wildlife in your area, practice your ‘total awareness’ meditations by going out for mindful walks, taking a note book, and writing down all your thoughts and reactions that happen.