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The Wandering WizardThe Wizards' Corner: Coffee Time with Raguel Oceanus DarkFyreSaturdays are usually coffeetime here at my home: Saturday coffee group being a tradition that spans at least a decade, whether at the Java Dock or at one of our homes... And more often than not, my brother and family are always a part when they can... It just was him this time out, as the family was elsewhere... So we took the opportunity to talk shop over coffee and tea, while a predicted snowstorm loomed on the horizon...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2021-01-311h 00The Wandering WizardAn InvitationThis is an all out invitation to all of you who listen to my podcasts or see my posts on Instagram... I'd like to hear from you... wolfen.nightlord@gmail.com is my email... the_wandering_wizard1 and regonereth are my Instagram accounts... Micah DarkFyre is who I am on Facebook... shadowdarkfyre is who I am on Twitter... And you can also leave me a message on Anchor... Let me know what's on your mind, what you think of the podcast, what you'd like me to showcase, what shameless plug you had in mind for me to do, etc... Take...2020-11-1706 minThe Wandering WizardBefore I Go: Sea ShantiesMy love of the seas marks nigh everything I do... So I leave this part of me with all of you... We'll come back around: like the tides of the sea... 'Til then, Good Dreaming and Blessed Be...2020-09-2313 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: SynchronusI decided to end Season 2 on the holiday of Mabon: the Autumnal Equinox... The setting: the beauty and timelessness of the dunes of Kohler Andrae State Park here in Wisconsin... The occasion: the union of two lives into one whole... And how everything happens prescisely when it means to... Thank you all for Season 2... See you in Season 3...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-09-2346 minThe Wandering WizardDishes To Have: Two Specialty New England Clam ChowdersI love food... I love moderate experimentation... Put them together, and you get delicious... Mostly... Tonight comes from the kitchen, as I tell you of two of them... One of which I was cooking...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-09-2220 minThe Wandering WizardWanderings and Journeys: Erin Shore - The Fae of Rathgillen HillDay 2 of being home was one of rest, regeneration, relaxation, and recuperation... And, as luck had it, a tour of the farm which came to its height - no pun intended - atop the eponymous hill... Where, we found, our silent hosts had been expecting us... Even before thought of the trip had occured to any of us...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-09-211h 03The Wandering WizardDrinks I Enjoy: Ardbeg 10-Year ScotchAs you know, I love having a good drink now and then. Especially the harder liquors... Scotch is one of them... This particular scotch... was a quiet surprise...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-09-2018 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: The Wonder of the RailsOnly twice have I ever ridden a train... And it's been years since... But everytime the sound of one running near draws me to want to ride one again... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-09-1817 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: The Marks of the JourneyNo matter who you are, your story is being told... Whether guided by Fate or manipulated by mortals, there is no way you come out unmarked...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-09-1716 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: What We Take With and What We Leave BehindIt's always the challenges associated with our journeys that make us take a hard look at ourselves... No matter how tired we are...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-09-1617 minThe Wandering WizardDishes To Have: An Ode To New England Clam ChowderHow do I love new england clam chowder...? Let me count the ways... And I'll include the ONE way I DON'T, just to make sure there are no misunderstandings...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-09-1517 minThe Wandering WizardWanderings and Journeys: Erin Shore - The Road to Rathgillen>FOR SUNDAY< First day for seven of House DarkFyre in Ireland the last week of last month... 36 hours total of travel it would end up bsing before we rested our bones... It was a set of adventures magickal, mundane, and hilarious... In the end, we found ourselves under the personal watch of the Morrigan, as we finally came home to the hill, houses, and farm known as Rathgillen...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-09-151h 39The Wandering WizardInterlude: Inherit the WindWhat good is it to inherit what you don't pay attention to or take care of...? Better late than never to start...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-09-1316 minThe Wandering WizardPorts of Departure: Mitchell International AirportIn this installment of P.o.D.(chuckles), we talk about one of two places that was my starting point for becoming the wanderer and traveler that I am today... For the road, it was the old Milwaukee Greyhound station... For the air, however,... it was Mitchell...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-09-1117 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: ComfortThis episode isn't here to extoll the virtues of comfort... But to talk about when it is and isn't good to indulge in it... Like couches and blankets on cold days and when you have work to put in...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-09-1017 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: HibernationFunny how the Multiverse conspires to help you with things... Even a podcast... In this case, oversleeping on a comfortable couch, covered in a super comforter, with the weather cold outside... Gee... What does that inspire a human to think about...?--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-09-0919 minThe Wandering WizardAround The Way: Rosie's CafeSimple is as simple does... And when it comes to this place - around the way from Drury Inn Christchurch - simple is beautiful and delicious... Simply put, welcome to Rosie's...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-09-0816 minThe Wandering WizardWanderings and Journeys: Erin Shore - The Steps Towards HomeIreland: my homeland... And to hell with any opinions to the contrary... I didn't ask... Your heart knows its home... And my family and I were on our way... But stories like this don't start first with "Poof!" and you're there... Many forget that it is the road and steps leading up to the heart of the story... That's where you encounter the most significant obstacles...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-09-071h 21The Wandering WizardInterlude: Discovering HistoryEverything has a story... Everyone... and everyplace... You can color your planned trip more vibrant if you research the stories behind the destinations you're going to...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-09-0617 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: The Tribe You Journey WithThere is something profound about shared experiences... Even more so when they involve travel... It is an entwinement and bonding that I sometimes am at a loss for words to describe... Sometimes, though, words aren't always needed...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-09-0416 minThe Wandering WizardAround The Way: John's PizzariaIn the midst of this pandemic, food remains a constant need, and small business restaurants have adapted as best they can to survive... In this town, one of them has been and continues to be a heart of the community... John's...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-09-0318 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: Driving on the Wrong Side of the Road - A Tutorial>>FOR TUESDAY'S BROADCAST2020-09-0321 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: Life in Quarantine>>FOR MONDAY'S BROADCAST2020-09-0317 minThe Wandering WizardWanderings and Journeys: The Sedona MissionFound myself on sort of a repeat of my first trip to Ireland: in that a threat on my life was waiting for me around the corner there... Good thing I had backup... The mission itself brought a success that put other things into perspective...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-09-021h 29The Wandering WizardPorts of Departure: O'Hare International>>FOR SATURDAY'S BROADCAST2020-09-0216 minThe Wandering WizardHome Bases: Rathgillen HouseOn this inaugural episode of Home Bases, I thought I'd begin with the place that has been home for I and six members of my family for the better part of a week... The place lies under the shadow of a 3000-year old Fae stronghold... And is known as Rathgillen...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-08-2817 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: The Breaking of FellowshipsThe upside of journeying with a group of people you love or even just like: the bonds of fellowship that make the journeys deeper, more heartfelt, and more profound... The downside:... when the fellowship ends...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-08-2818 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: Forever Homesick>>This is for Tuesday's broadcast2020-08-2716 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: Back To Pooh Corner>>This is for Monday's broadcast2020-08-2716 minThe Wandering WizardWanderings and Journeys: The Michigan Coastal Route - Algoma to Washington IslandThe last leg of our journey is one of escape into the forests between the blaring loudness of Door County's tourist world... and the inexorable patience of the sea that the rest of the world calls Lake Michigan... It comes finally to an ancient sanctuary island across a strait, and ends by foot on another, looking out into the mystery of what is not a lake,... but a sea...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-08-251h 25The Wandering WizardInterlude: What's Next...?That's always the question after a big trip... Especially if the trip itself was out of the ordinary...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-08-2216 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: The Siren Call of a Night's JourneyIf you get it - deep within you - what the title means, then I'll just be stating the obvious... If you don't, pull up a chair... I'll attempt to convey this as best I can...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-08-2118 minThe Wandering WizardAround The Way: The Java DockBefore I talk about another local place in this segment, I'm going to chat about the place that is near and dear to my heart... Where the ownership has changed a half a dozen times, where they understand my request for coffee-flavored coffee, and where the building is guarded by benevolent ghosts and powered by a ley line... Welcome to my second office...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-08-2017 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: The Universe Conspires"Bow down when you come to our town. Bow down when you're Westward-bound. Bow down, 'cause we ain't no haters like you. Bow down to a side that's greater than you, fool." -Westside Connection--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-08-1916 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: RelaxI can't stress this enough... No pun intended... You're getting ready to go relax... It makes sense to relax on the way to doing so... It doesnxt make sense to kill yourself on the way to it...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-08-1817 minThe Wandering WizardWanderings and Journeys: The Michigan Coastal Route - Sheboygan to AlgomaBack on what I call the Michigan Coast Highway... Leaving our rest stop of Sheboygan, we're continuing North... Our destinations: a "hidden" intenational crossroads and freshwater surfing capital, a tunnel of trees through an enchanted seaside forest, two things that certainly don't belong, the home of the best chicken in the state, and a non-assuming final destination that: like Port, is an exhalation...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-08-171h 33The Wandering WizardInterlude: ContinueI know... Not the segment you expected... Another hijack... A little insight into how I got here at Point B from Point A....--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-08-1616 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: The Devil's in the DetailsEver read your favorite fantasy story set in our world, where the details seem too real about the setting...? This next is about the town of Hopewell, Illinois as it's portrayed in a fantasy novel... Only it's not really Hopewell...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-08-1419 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: Standing On The PrecipiceAll journeys involve risk... Anyone who tells you different is a special kind of stupid... The question was never whether or not there was risk... But how you face it...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-08-1317 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: Ruminations Before The JourneyT-minus 1.5 weeks and counting... This is an important journey for me... The first time I'm taking my family home with me to Éire... As is typical, thoughts run through the head: preparations, what to do, where to go, who to tell... To be honest,... I'll be glad just to be home again...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-08-1221 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: Interesting Times"I know that I've been given everything I could take... From the moment I was livin', I was dyin' to make... nothin' out of somethin', or real out of fake... It's hard days livin' in the world..." -Austin Plaine--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-08-1119 minThe Wandering WizardWanderings and Journeys: The Michigan Coastal Route - Ozaukee County to SheboyganOz... It's what we here in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin fondly call our county... My wife calls it Mist Hollow, because of the fogs and mist that sometimes and often form up here... This is my home... Land of hidden wizards, magickfolk, enchanted forests, and bluffs from which you can gaze across the sea to a horizon of nothing but water... All dominated by a city that is our own "Emerald City": Port Washington... It's through these lands that we'll be rambling on this leg, letting the sea guide us as we slingshot in and out of Port on our way...2020-08-101h 40The Wandering WizardPorts of Departure: Milwaukee Greyhound Bus StationA new segment...? Yes... This one deals with the places not often talked about... Or at least not favorably... It makes sense, then, to talk about the one such port that actually began it all for me...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-08-0916 minThe Wandering WizardAround The Way: Bernie'sA new segment showcasing some of the local businesses here in my town, as well as where you're at... Send me a message and let me know... For the inaugural step forward, an Old World meat market dear to my heart, right here in my hometown...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-08-0715 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: Gaining TimeMy wife once admonished me to do something that is conducive to who I am as a person... Back then, it wasn't feasible... Now, it is... And time's a-wastin'...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-08-0616 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: What Home IsBack home and rested, I talk about and expound upon exactly that: home... Both what it means to others,... and what it means to me...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-08-0519 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: Road WearinessTired... Worn out... Seen too many terminals... Too many days on the road... Go hide yourself... Recharge... And get back out there...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-08-0411 minThe Wandering WizardWanderings and Journeys: The Michigan Coastal Route - Racine and Milwaukee CountiesSorry for the lateness of this episode... It's been a long road with things to do, family to see, and responsibilities to keep... I'm not at my best, so bear with me...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-08-0452 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: Always Something To LearnThis stemmed from a conversation I had with my mom this morning concerning the podcast... It eeminded me that sometimes, I worry too much...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-08-0216 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: An Unexpected ConversationThis is a special occasion... Sharing a hour long segment of an hours-long conversation between myself, my mother, and my brother... Trust me... It gets involved...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-07-3158 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: Community of the AirThere's something about catching a plane from Point A to Point B that, for me, is more than just a way of life... More than even art... Like that movie with George Clooney in it, in which he's a traveling businessman... Flying, and the vehicles and buildings involved, is a lot like a whole 'nother existence...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-07-3016 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: Get UpThe easy thing to do is be like so many within this instability generates by this mashup of pandemic and civil unrest, and become caught in the lag of apathy and fear... The hard thing to do iz rise up out of it and follow your road...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-07-2918 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: The Inspiration of TravelYet another hijack of my thoights into what turned out to be appropriate for the theme... What songs, stories, or movies inspired you to travel...? I'd be interested in knowing... I shared enough of mine here... Even forewent sponsorship on this episode to share a few clips... (For my non-Anchor listeners, the songs are "Ends of the Earth" by Lord Huron, and "On The Road Again" by Canned Heat...)2020-07-2815 minThe Wandering WizardWanderings and Journeys: The Michigan Coastal Route - Kenosha and RacineThe Lakeshore Route: short for the Great Lakes Circle Tour system that allows people to travel around the seas individually or all together... Sounds like an adventure... On the first leg of our own adventure, we're starting in Kenosha County, finding our way from where a white sand beach once existed, to an oracle of wind and sea: guarded by a monarch of a glade.. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-07-2752 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude; The Virtue of HospitalityAs much as hotels, motels, and hostels are a good convenience, sometimes, nothing beats enjoying the hospitality of regular people and their homes... And if you can do the same for others every once in awhile, even better...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-07-2616 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: Know The LandThis is for all the people in the backseats who didn't hear me the last time... The progression of the human race over this particular continent may seem to have erased the wondrous, the mystickal, and the sacred... But that's only if you don' oay close enough attention...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-07-2417 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: Strange TimesIndeed they are... They're only going to get stranger and more dangerous... And non-coincidences abound... To quote a song, "There's something in the air. There's omens everywhere. Let's pretend like we're not scared."--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-07-2317 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: DeterminationGet up... Take it on the chin... Take the hits... Rub some dirt into it... Walk it off... That's what determination is...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-07-2316 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: Be Patient, Watch, and WaitIt's been a hard year for a lot of us. No worries. Here's what you do in the meantime...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-07-2116 minThe Wandering WizardWanderings and Journeys: The Alliance RunAs the name implies, there were alliances to be made and reinforced. Which, with some unforseen delays and landmarks to visit, was going to take awhile... Just a few welcome challenges as we ran back up the Mother Road: on our way home...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-07-201h 06The Wandering WizardInterlude: Don't Miss ItThe band Kansas once sang, "Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky." In this world of constant flux anymore, those are worda to live by... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-07-1917 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: EnduranceThe will is everything... It is what drives the world... Even in the hardest of times, the will is there... The will for what...? Anything, really... But when staying the course, it is the will to endure...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-07-1717 minThe Wandering WizardDishes To Have: LeftoversAs promised, here we are talking about the ingredients in your fridge that you hope haven't started their own commune on the bottom shelf... If they haven't, there's nothing saying you can't cook like Jacques Pepin... Get your cast iron...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-07-1616 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: FamilyI keep my family as reasonably private as possible... But my journeys - even the ones I had to take alone - would be nothing without them... They are my home: both those of blood, and those of spirit... They are all of my heart...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-07-1517 minThe Wandering WizardDishes To Have: A Foodie's (Brief) ManifestoTime for another episode of "Dishes To Have"... This time around, we delve less into a dish, and more into my life as a foodie... And how Manhattan Clam Chowder is sacrelidge...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-07-1421 minThe Wandering WizardWanderings and Journeys: The Days of the DragonGetting to Arizona was the hard but adventurous part... Relaxing and simply being was the easy part... Sprinkled in there are a couple of adventures, the main one bringing us within the sight of a dragon's mountain, and the treasure on the other side...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-07-131h 30The Wandering WizardInterlude: The HermitageMy home away from home... My sanctuary... My quiet place... Might not make sense how I talk about it, but hopefully, you get it...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-07-1116 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: The Utility of MoneyI hate money... No lie... However, it is a necessity in this world... So, if you're going to travel or work on your aspirations, treat money like a tool and put each dollar of it to work...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-07-1016 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: Where You Lay Your HeadWhere you stay is as important as where you go... And should never be done lazily... In light of my own mistake, in hindsight, here's an admonishment...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-07-0916 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: Interfering with the DeadNo matter your reason, activism, goal, outrage, or movement,... -don't-...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-07-0816 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: Plot Your Course"If you have time to lean, you have time to clean." Remember that saying...? Here's another... "If you have time to fan, you have time to plan." Doesn't make sense...? Doesn't matter... The point is this: if you want to go somewhere, take the time to plot it out...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-07-0718 minThe Wandering WizardWanderings and Journeys: Southwest by 66I've done long hauls before in my life... Texas, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Ohio... You get the picture... This was by far one to dwarf them all... A long planned vacation, travelling along the Mother Road herself... There's a lot of story to tell... And that's only the part concerned with getting to Arizona City... This adventure is going to take three weekends... One down, two to go...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-07-061h 42The Wandering WizardInterlude: Move To Live"But it's not about how hard yer' hit. It's about how hard you can get hit, and keep movin' forward. How much you can take, and keep movin' forward. Alright? That's how winnin's done!" - Rocky Balboa--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-07-0516 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: Lost RoadsForgive me... Dozed a bit here and there... A chance meeting with an almost forgotten acquaintance sparked this interlude... Sometimes, a trip down memory lane is what the doctor ordered...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-07-0316 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: It's About the People7.6 billion on this blue dot... Without each other, we'd never learn about our world... Without our world, we'd never learn about each other...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-07-0218 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: Godspeed, AnthonyJoin me for a drink and a moment as we take a few to talk about a great man... One who walked tall amongst us, and admonished us to join him and do the same... Miss you, Anthony...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-07-0119 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: Ancestral LandsSometimes your soul needs to recharge in the place of your ancestors... Where their spirits can heal and strengthen you... Perhaps that is what we all need...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-06-3019 minThe Wandering WizardWanderings and Journeys: The Fellowship of the CornersThe first adventure of the season, on the longest day of the year... Nine members of a family left on a journey... A mission... Far North to the Faraway Land: where mountains thrum in power as they hold at rest the bones of giants... To one of the four Corners of the Earth - long held a myth - they journeyed... When their mission was done, eight of them - with one as their witness - returned a Fellowship...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-06-291h 07The Wandering WizardInterlude: Treasure HuntingWhy treasure hunting...? If you know the answer, congratulations... If you have to ask, I'm sorry...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-06-2716 minThe Wandering WizardDishes To Have: Second Time AroundA new segment... The first of many... This one will delve into my being a foodie... To start, I revisited a dish for lunch: one I had a bad experience with and swore off of years ago... Today proved that, even with food, there is such a thing as a second chance...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-06-2617 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: What Now?When you've gone as far as you can... Prepared as much as you are able... Done all you can do... This is the question you will often ask yourself...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-06-2516 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: Symbology and HypocrisyThis is not going to make me popular... Fortunately, I donnae' care... In the light of current events, I felt compelled to speak... It is the willful ignorance, outright stupidity, and lazy intellect of the debate that gave rise to this interlude... If you unfollow me after this, I understand...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-06-2433 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: Finding Your StreamAye... I pay attention to current events... Every day... As I ruminate here on my latest mission, I also bring to mind how we all can bring peace to the chaos... As much as it hurts...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-06-2317 minThe Wandering WizardIntro to Season 2: Welcome BackEllo again... You know me, or at least a little bit of me... First leg of the journey's done... Now what..?2020-06-2205 minThe Wandering WizardBefore I Head Out: Two More For The RoadEver forget something before you head out for the day...? Then have to backtrack to get it before heading out again...? That's what happened here, which gave rise to a segment that will only happen at the end of every season... Growth comes in many interesting ways...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-06-0925 minThe Wandering WizardWanderings and Journeys: Ireland - The Road RisesHere we are... Last episode of this first season... Thank you all for following me along these 53 first episodes and putting up with my rambling... It is more appreciated than you know... This last episode is less of a story and more of an outlier e of the journeys ahead... Journeys that inevitably lead to o e place... Home...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-06-0834 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: Just Need To Know Where I've BeenIt's been quite the road from that first episode to here... I sit in the spaces between, wondering what's next...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-06-0616 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: Live and LearnIn the midst of all these events, I am reminded why it is that I love to travel... To destroy ignorance...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-06-0521 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: On MissionSounds like a briefing... That's because it is... Pay attention...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-06-0419 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: Neverending StoriesFunny what can potentially inspire you to talk about when you wake up from sawing logs in the aftermath of an early Summer storm... Esoecially when it has something to do with something everyone loves:... a good story...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-06-0320 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: The Four Corners of the WorldJust a legend...? Most think so... Others have searched for generations... Some got the locations right, while others didn't... Could be that they've been under the nonses of many for centuries... And one of them lies in the Northwoods of the State of Wisconsin... My state... Coincidence...? Happenstance...? A wizard knows that no such things exist...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-06-0218 minThe Wandering WizardWanderings and Journeys: Ireland - Honor of ServiceThere's a multitude of proverbial hats that I wear... Accumulated over the course of years... Should it be surprising, then, that I accumulate one more while home in Ireland...? Nah...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-06-0157 minThe Wandering WizardSilent RunningJust listen to the end...2020-05-3017 minThe Wandering WizardRecipes I've Tried: Brewing MeadAye... Another new segment... This one concerning some recipes I know... And of course, the first has to do with a drink I enjoy... Typical...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-05-2920 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: Not Everyone That Comes Up With You Can Go With YouYou may think that the above title sounds a bit unfair, but I have a philosophy about fair... There is no such thing... Somes things are just, others are not, and some just... are... This is one of them...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-05-2817 minThe Wandering WizardDrinks I Enjoy: Whetting My Whistle TwiceYes... A new segment: one of two to be introduced into the podcast... Because your journeys are as much about what you partake of as they are about what you learn along the way... The last time I talked about a drink, it was Beekeeper's Select Irish Honey from The Whistler brand... This time, I whet my whistle on their second offering...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-05-2716 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: Looking ForwardWe've come a ways together... Over 40 episodes... Seems like a lot... But then,... there's the road ahead...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-05-2615 minThe Wandering WizardWanderings and Journeys: Ireland - The Battle That Wasn'tEpic isn't always what we think it is... Often, it doesn't occur to us till long after, if at all... This story is of a wizard who walked to face destiny with no guarantees, and was rewarded for his faith... To the One Above All, to my wife, to Gabriel and Michael and Raphael and Uriel, to my Brothers and Sisters, to the Morrigan, to the Daghda, to Epona, to the Tuatha De Danaan, to mighty Hekate, to Bast, to my pantheon, ancestors and family... Thank you...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a p...2020-05-251h 38The Wandering WizardInterlude: Own Your ShitNot enough of us do this: whether magickal or mundane... And for us magickfolk, it is important... Here's why...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-05-2316 minThe Wandering WizardInterlude: An Unexpected MorningI consider my podcast a job, much like my main job... My two jobs remain separate... At least that was the case until this morning... It turned out to be a motivating morning as to the direction this podcast will go...--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2020-05-2217 min