Asatru Folk Assembly - May 2021 Live Discussion

00:00:00.000 Hello. I hope everybody's having a good night.

00:00:10.460 Excited to talk with you all again.

00:00:15.460 Looks like we already have some chat over on the side going. I appreciate that. Got a couple,

00:00:20.960 a couple, three questions to start off our evening tonight. But before I do that, I'd like to

00:00:29.540 offer a I don't know from the bottom of my heart congratulations to Trent and Madison

00:00:37.360 our folk builder Trent East and his lovely wife Madison had their wedding yesterday and

00:00:45.620 I'm so very happy for them and on behalf of the entire Austria Folk Assembly we wish them the

00:00:51.260 very best and they're truly amazing people any of you guys who got a chance to meet them know that

00:00:57.480 though. Um, yeah, so let's, let's start off this evening with a few questions. Um, I had always,

00:01:09.920 I'd always thought that since, uh, I know, since I got involved in ASATRU, um,

00:01:16.540 I don't have some, some amazing argument about it because I've, I've always kind of taken it for

00:01:22.380 granted that that was the case i think that the association with uh say there and i think that

00:01:30.460 the gold references certainly apply to both and and show a continuity and uh i'm also asked about

00:01:40.300 the the burning three times of gold egg and if that represents some sort of a initiation for

00:01:46.380 freya perhaps i think you deal with those kind of chthonic initiation practices amongst

00:01:57.340 the vanir but i also think that it has to do with the refinement of gold and the purification that

00:02:04.620 you know the the burning away of dross in the gold to purify it i think it has something to do

00:02:12.060 with that. But yeah, those are my thoughts. Those have always been my thoughts on it.

00:02:18.920 And yeah, it's not some kind of super firm AFA doctrine at this point,

00:02:23.620 but I've always thought that was the case. And yeah, so that's where I'm at on it.

00:02:30.860 Excited. Everybody's already on the side commenting and jumping in. Also,

00:02:39.940 So tonight, I'd like to give a special thanks and words of appreciation for Mark McLeod and the gentleman that came out and helped with the cemetery at Odenshoff yesterday.

00:02:53.720 For those of you that may not know, we now have a cemetery at Odenshoff with two of our loved ones, deceased AFA members interred there.

00:03:05.100 We did that. We broke ground last year at Midsummer.

00:03:09.940 And it's a beautiful spot. We've got room for quite a quite a bit of our family when they eventually go that way and need a place to be.

00:03:21.300 We're so honored to have the remains of our loved ones there with us in our holy ground in on the grounds of one of our temples.

00:03:32.020 And as of yesterday, we have a beautiful fence now separating the area, beautiful iron fence.

00:03:39.940 Mark and the gentleman of Odenshof came out and dug holes, dug trenches, cemented things in, welded fence panels together and put in so much work to make that a really beautiful, really special space.

00:03:53.700 And to everybody who took part in that, to Mark, thank you guys so much.

00:03:58.800 It's really something special.

00:04:02.600 Certainly here in Finland, I believe that's something the first of its kind,

00:04:05.820 an Ausitru burial ground, and we're off to a very good start.

00:04:11.200 So thank you guys so much for that.

00:04:16.200 Joel, it seems like you're always cooking something delicious.

00:04:19.480 I'm envious.

00:04:21.040 Your stuff sounds pretty good.

00:04:23.700 oh yeah there's a lot of decoration we can do with that fence we have some people over in the

00:04:39.040 chat saying that you know on holidays and different occasions we could do things to

00:04:42.700 decorate up the fence and the style of wrought iron fence it is there's a lot of stuff we can

00:04:47.720 do to make it pretty over the years but it's it's really special it's nice and it separates the

00:04:52.740 space nicely which which is really important um well martin over in germany hi i appreciate you

00:05:07.460 joining from from such a long way away please say hello to your mother for me

00:05:22.740 I was a question about what I believe in relation to Tacitus writing about a very ancient god of the Germanic people, Manus, and his relation to Heimdall and their relation to Manu in the Rig Veda.

00:05:39.160 That one I've given less thought to, so I don't want to overreach.

00:05:45.340 I think there's something very solid to that.

00:05:49.040 I think the connection between Manus and Manu and the Rig Veda, I think that's a much, much easier thing to say.

00:05:55.960 Yep, absolutely. I think the connection with Heimdall takes a little bit more thinking, but I don't think that's on the wrong track.

00:06:03.520 And I think that's a really interesting theory that I want to look into some more.

00:06:19.040 We have Aristos over on the side. I appreciate that saying hail the doers and he's talking about how he appreciates the AFA members being willing to put forth effort.

00:06:32.960 I have no idea if you guys can read these after the fact on the side, but I'm trying to make sure so everybody knows what I'm talking about.

00:06:40.540 So anyways, yeah, Aristo's talking about how he appreciates AFA members doing things instead

00:06:47.860 of just talking about it.

00:06:49.700 I'm really, really proud of our AFA family because we're out building something positive.

00:06:55.260 We're doing something great.

00:06:56.880 We're building something for the future.

00:06:59.560 And so many of you have been a part of that.

00:07:01.920 So many of you have been generous, not only with your money, but with your time and with

00:07:05.480 your effort to build things, to create, to make things, to make this world closer to what we know

00:07:14.740 it should be, what we know it could be, and what we want. It's really nice to have that positivity

00:07:20.380 and that constructive attitude of making good things happen instead of just complaining about

00:07:26.120 negative things. We see too much of the one and far too little of the other. So yeah, I want to echo that.

00:07:35.480 All right. Well, we got great stuff going on on the side, which is awesome. I want to get to a couple other questions that we had emailed in. If you guys have questions, I believe as soon as I post the schedule for the next live chat, you can go in and post them in the chat like you're doing now.

00:07:59.420 but you know have them preloaded before the next time if you think of them also please feel very

00:08:04.480 free to email me mattflabel at runestone.org i'm always very happy to get your guys questions and

00:08:12.840 i'd be i'd be glad to answer those on my next live chat certainly if you have anything private

00:08:19.240 you want to ask i'm happy to add to answer those privately but if you want to email them and have

00:08:25.220 address them on the next chat i'm happy to do that and uh that said roy uh roy asked some questions

00:08:34.500 uh two questions this first one um members are encouraged to submit their last wills and testament

00:08:42.500 to the afa for safekeeping question is where are the last wills and testaments actually stored

00:08:48.900 and how would they be accessed and by whom? Would the individual need to submit some sort

00:08:55.320 of credentials to show you that they were entitled to see said last will and testament?

00:09:00.220 So those decisions, and hopefully, you know, it's a long time before we have to make them

00:09:05.340 as far as who gets to see them and how we access them. But law speaker Alan Turnage is going to be

00:09:11.500 the one to handle that. It's kind of an answer to both parts of that question. The physical copies

00:09:17.760 are going to be kept with Alan. So if you do send those copies in, please make sure you're

00:09:22.840 sending him an original copy that's signed. So it's binding and appropriate and he has it on file.

00:09:30.160 He's going to keep those filed depending on how many we get. We may deal with a better storage

00:09:34.620 situation, but Alan's an attorney and he's very competent at those things. As far as credentials

00:09:41.660 on who sees them. Yeah, we'll need to figure that out. We want to respect everybody's

00:09:49.180 confidentiality. The idea of when we would look at them was upon becoming notified of a member

00:09:55.440 of ours passing away. We'd certainly look at them and then determine, I don't want to overspeak,

00:10:03.160 but we'd determine that situation based on next to kin or whoever we needed to notify so we could

00:10:08.500 work with the family to make sure that that they know what uh what you wanted and that we we can

00:10:16.020 make sure those things happen but again the exact process on that alan's going to help us determine

00:10:21.700 because he's got a better answer on that than i do also i'd like to scan them and electronically

00:10:27.220 store them and cliff would probably have a good answer on how that's going to be accomplished

00:10:31.780 As of right now, I think we have two or three on file, not any any great number.

00:10:38.100 Anybody watching this, though, please get your will done.

00:10:45.940 Do your own. Let me check here to make sure I'm not giving you bad information.

00:10:50.420 We can maybe put a link on the side. Do your own will dot com.

00:10:55.380 Um, do your will however you want, but I know that expense and I know that hassle and there's

00:11:02.800 all kinds of stresses about it. Do your own will.com is a free and very quick way to do

00:11:08.580 really comprehensive and inside the United States, legally binding and appropriate will.

00:11:13.920 You can do it very quickly and get that accomplished. No one ever thinks about it

00:11:20.360 until they need it but I've seen a number of our members pass away that didn't have that in place

00:11:26.840 and as a result they didn't get what they wanted as their final send off or the final resting place

00:11:34.840 of their remains and the distribution that they want for for their assets and their things and

00:11:41.480 just how they want to be remembered and taken care of when they pass so please do that and when you

00:11:47.000 do that please send us a copy please send alan a copy of it so we can and it doesn't matter what

00:11:55.240 you have in there what you want what's important to us is that you get honored at at the time of

00:12:01.560 your death the way that you want to it's very important to see that your will is done and we

00:12:06.040 want to help in any way we can so that people know what you want and so that we can help accomplish

00:12:12.680 what you want. So please think about that. Please do that. There's no time like the present and

00:12:18.920 you never really know you need it until it sneaks up on us. So please do that. Also,

00:12:25.060 we have a second question from Roy. And a couple of things. I'm just going to read some stuff

00:12:36.980 verbatim. This may not be appropriate for a member to even ask, or at least to be talked

00:12:44.340 about publicly, in which case don't respond, of course. First, thank you. That's extremely polite,

00:12:49.720 but I'm very happy to respond to any question you might have. There's no big secrets. Very happy to

00:12:57.460 be open and honest about whatever business needs to be discussed and, you know, make sure people

00:13:03.060 know what's going on. Got nothing to hide. So the question is as followed. Who actually

00:13:08.260 makes decisions that affect the AFA and its membership? Is there a committee or governing

00:13:14.960 council, for example? How is it decided just where a HOF will be established or if where

00:13:22.200 a festival will be held? And he's asking kind of about the decision-making process of how

00:13:30.740 decisions are made, who or what group of individuals has control of the money, who signs

00:13:35.860 the checks. He's kind of wondering those admin questions. A quick rundown of those things.

00:13:43.040 To most any and all of those questions, AFA leadership in general is consulted and we have

00:13:53.700 a lot of discussions on them. As the system works, your apprentice folk builder is the

00:14:00.040 the lowest rung on that ladder and those folks are people who volunteered to give it a try folk 0.96

00:14:05.560 building in your area above them once they've been around for a sufficient amount of time they've

00:14:11.900 decided this is something they want to do we've decided that they're a good fit we want to move

00:14:16.500 forward with them as a member of leadership we'll ask a apprentice folk builder to take their oath

00:14:21.820 and become an oath folk builder. And they do a lot of

00:14:26.320 membership management, logistical things, gathering people together, basically taking

00:14:34.140 care of all the running of the AFA in their area. They do a lot of that. Above them are Gothar.

00:14:41.480 They're the priests and priestesses of our church. They're folk builders who have put in the time,

00:14:48.640 put in the effort and put in the study to learn the art of being a priest and spending that time

00:14:55.280 and that devotion to our church and to our folk and eventually when they're done with that program

00:15:00.800 they become ordained as a go through your githya those people manage our districts

00:15:09.280 and manage our folk builders and above them is the afa is whitten and that gets a little

00:15:15.200 little bit more to the meat of what's being asked. They're the advisory council that meets with me.

00:15:22.460 We have a lot of discussions throughout the month, you know, at any time, but certainly twice a month

00:15:27.700 we have phone calls about the future of the AFA, about where we're at, about decisions that need

00:15:32.680 to be made. And I consult all those folks about things and they give me their wisdom and we

00:15:39.960 discuss things and kind of plan out the answers to those questions, those bigger questions.

00:15:45.200 and then above the witten ultimately the decisions get made by me um i have the final say on those

00:15:52.080 things uh i make a lot of those really you know the the very significant decisions certainly i

00:15:59.280 discuss that with my witten i value their their advice on that hugely but ultimately i make those

00:16:05.040 calls um so it's not done by committee it's certainly not done by voting um ultimately

00:16:13.920 I'm the one that makes those decisions. As far as who has control of the money, I suppose,

00:16:24.800 I suppose I do, ultimately, but all of our members of the Witten and I try to make that

00:16:31.520 very transparent to, to all of our go thar as well and anybody wants to know. Alan,

00:16:38.400 our law speaker alan turnage is the guy that that handles the financial aspect

00:16:44.400 he typically is the ones that writes the checks and does those things but i'd say myself cliff

00:16:50.720 erickson and alan work together a lot in in managing those finances and making sure money

00:16:57.360 goes to the right spot um there's a couple other questions i just want to make sure i answer all of

00:17:04.160 them uh one of because i think they're both really good questions even if they're kind of glossed

00:17:11.040 over i don't know if the original poster wants to know them but it's good for everybody to know

00:17:16.480 so two of them uh one where how and where the next half will be established and two how and if a

00:17:26.000 festival will be held so as far as national events go deciding that a couple of factors

00:17:33.680 are important in that um for it to and we encourage all of our folk builders all of our gothar

00:17:41.600 all of our afa members who want to to host local events and local gatherings whenever they'd like

00:17:47.360 to um we really support that we love to see that happen uh when it becomes a national event what

00:17:54.720 we look for to see in that situation is we want to see that people in an area are able to consistently

00:18:02.800 get about 40 people to a regional gathering about about 40 people for sure from their local area to

00:18:12.080 to come to an event that starts letting us know that it's that it's advantageous for us to make

00:18:19.040 sure that's a national event to put the weight of the afa behind it and to you know make sure that

00:18:25.360 happens and bring people from outside the region as well so that's kind of the number that right

00:18:29.680 now we look at to see if that makes sense also we try to schedule it make sure it doesn't conflict

00:18:34.480 with other national events and to make sure we've got some really really good folks in the area some

00:18:39.600 good boots on the ground that can run it and make sure it goes over really well and are consistent

00:18:44.960 so those are the things we look at for when we're going to host a national event

00:18:50.160 this year for the first time we celebrated

00:18:53.280 charming of the plow in Washington state as a national event, because those folks had

00:19:01.200 held it as a local event for a couple of years, been very successful at it. They've had some

00:19:06.280 really committed people up there, shown they could do something great with it. So we decided this

00:19:10.720 year to make it a national event, see what happened, and it turned out wonderfully.

00:19:15.700 The next question is, how is it determined, you know, where and how we go about the next half?

00:19:23.280 and that's a little bit there's more factors to consider on that and there's a lot of things and

00:19:29.640 here's here's some of them we want to make sure that our Hoffs are well taken care of and we want

00:19:36.060 to make sure that our Hoffs are in a place to where we're going to have a lot of AFA members

00:19:39.600 attending them we don't just want an empty building somewhere we want a building that's full of our

00:19:45.600 folk so one thing we look for is that there's a substantial amount of members within a couple of

00:19:52.560 hours driving distance of, you know, of a perspective off location.

00:19:58.200 Um, another huge factor, very important factor is that we've got consistent

00:20:02.700 leadership there that are going to stick around that are going to be able to put

00:20:06.680 in all of the work cause these hops to make them, to make them function, to make

00:20:11.140 them, you know, even get them ready to function is a huge undertaking and a much

00:20:17.100 bigger than most people really understand until you've been there and done it.

00:20:19.920 So we want to make sure we've got solid people who can do that and take care of it.

00:20:24.720 I also, it's important to me that we have an ordained Gothi or Githya in the area near the Hoth that's going to be able to come there to sanctify events and rites and be there to lead that Hoth.

00:20:43.440 So that's really important as well.

00:20:45.940 And then comes some more, you know, just practical things.

00:20:48.820 Are we able to find a building there for a price that we can afford at the time?

00:20:54.340 Is that something we're able to do? 0.96

00:20:56.740 Now, this next hof, and a lot of these hofs can go wherever we find something that meets the factors I just mentioned in a suitable way.

00:21:05.040 This next hof is going to honor Njord, and to honor Njord, we really want this next hof to be as close as we can to a navigable body of water.

00:21:15.940 So we're looking at areas near the coast, perhaps near the Great Lakes, maybe even to a highly navigable river.

00:21:24.960 But those are things we're looking at. And again, I understand that getting, you know, waterfront property may be outside of what we can do.

00:21:31.880 But we'd like to get something close because we think that honors New York the best.

00:21:36.460 But most of our Hoffs kind of go wherever we've got the folk and wherever we've got the leadership in place to try to make them thrive and be successful.

00:21:46.780 And I hope that answers your questions. If it doesn't, you know, anybody hearing this, please ask questions on the side.

00:21:53.740 And Roy, if this if there's additional questions or if you want me to go in depth on any part of this more, please go ahead and send me another email.

00:22:01.180 And thank you for sending that in.

00:22:06.460 All right, let's see what's been going on while I've been talking here.

00:22:10.400 Okay, Jason asks, how do we differentiate the term Aryan from being a branch of our ancestry

00:22:36.240 to parties who insist that it is exclusively being a political neo-Nazi and World War II term instead.

00:22:53.960 We can't concern ourselves constantly with what other detractors are going to do or going to think.

00:23:01.640 The term Aryan is an ancient, ancient term.

00:23:04.660 It absolutely refers to the most ancient of of our race and our people.

00:23:11.820 It refers to those people as they migrate to different parts of the world.

00:23:17.320 It's it's an ancient word. It's a beautiful word.

00:23:20.880 And it means shining with nobility. It's thousands of years old.

00:23:25.520 We're always going to have people that their most common association with it is the Second World War and politics surrounding that.

00:23:34.660 People are going to do what they're going to do. We need to just know what we're talking about, know where we're coming from. If we're asked, you know, if we're asked, tell folks. And if we're not, just be proud of who we are and what we're doing.

00:23:48.680 And I don't really think there's some some ad campaign we can do to make people see the word differently.

00:23:55.940 It's kind of beyond our power to affect what what the detractors decide they want to be irritated about.

00:24:02.640 And honestly, most of them just want to be irritated, unfortunately.

00:24:18.680 Ryan suggests that we use, you know, a different form of Arian, that we use arios.

00:24:27.680 There's a number of words derived from the same root.

00:24:31.640 You can do that if it makes it easier.

00:24:33.800 Again, choose words that you use in the right context.

00:24:36.620 Don't just go use words that you know are going to irritate everyone for the sake of irritation.

00:24:41.780 We want to communicate and want to communicate clearly.

00:24:44.400 one of the reasons that i don't alter the form to arios and i use arian is because even if they

00:24:50.400 pretend they don't know what it means a lot of people do know what it means and it has a context

00:24:56.240 and it has a value and the more we use it differently or different variations the more

00:25:05.920 diffused that value gets so there's nothing wrong with it it's just not something i do i think we

00:25:11.440 We know what the word means, and I use it in that context.

00:25:41.440 Sorry, guys, I'm just reading over here on the side.

00:25:47.740 I want to make sure I don't miss anything.

00:25:50.320 We have a lot of other suggestions of alternative words we can use.

00:25:54.920 Again, I go back to what I just said.

00:25:56.420 I think the more we change it up and use 100 different things to mean the same thing,

00:26:01.980 it takes a lot of power out of what we're saying, and it causes more confusion than it needs to,

00:26:08.800 and that's why I try to keep it succinct.

00:26:10.860 But you've got to use what word you think is going to communicate best to your audience and what's going to work well for the situation.

00:26:17.160 A lot of those terms I don't think are wrong.

00:26:19.520 They're just not what I happen to use.

00:26:34.060 OK, we've got a question about the individual Hoffs having their own finances.

00:26:37.660 I'm glad that you mentioned that.

00:26:38.900 Yes and no. The AFAs, it's important to keep those monies loose enough to where we can use them if there's an emergency or a need in different contexts.

00:26:55.560 But in general, yes, each of our Hoffs have their own account so that we can track money in and out of them.

00:27:02.740 I know some of you guys are have targeted donations that you'd really like to see to go to your local Hoff or a local Hoff that you want to support. 0.77

00:27:10.620 We make sure those go directly into those Hoff accounts. 0.51

00:27:14.920 And then we we give enough money out of the general fund every month to keep those Hoffs afloat.

00:27:21.380 so those do have their own accounts and in that instance that's a combination of a decision made

00:27:28.460 with between myself the Whitten sometimes we talk to the Hoff certainly the Hoff manager

00:27:35.300 and the the Gothar in that region are the ones that make ultimate decisions as far as Hoff

00:27:42.320 finances and how that works but our Hoff managers are the ones that deal with the Hoff finances

00:27:48.920 on the day-to-day. But yeah, it's a good question. I'm glad you brought that up.

00:28:11.120 I've got some questions on the side about how to communicate with our membership.

00:28:14.520 As you all know, since Facebook has chosen to persecute us and remove us from their platform, it's been harder to communicate with our membership.

00:28:24.600 Doing the best we can on various social media.

00:28:27.960 We've got some Telegram channels going.

00:28:30.700 We have a Twitter account.

00:28:32.900 We have VK that we use regularly.

00:28:37.540 VK is a really nice platform.

00:28:39.220 It's just unfortunately a lot of you guys aren't there.

00:28:41.640 A lot of our folk aren't there.

00:28:43.040 But it's nice.

00:28:44.060 It's an interface that we're all used to. It's kind of the closest alternative to Facebook we have.

00:28:48.700 So we try to get the message out that way. We have some folks on the side suggesting that we

00:28:53.260 do more emailing and we can certainly do that as well. I think all of the above approach is probably

00:28:59.520 our best bet. Unfortunately, traditionally our emails that go out often, you know, too often

00:29:06.400 they wind up in people's spam folders. They don't get responses. We've seen over time that email is

00:29:13.300 It's probably the least efficient way to communicate information to our membership.

00:29:18.540 So while we do need to increase that and make sure we're sending out emails, we also do

00:29:23.300 on social media and it would be extremely helpful if our members can check in regularly

00:29:28.960 with their local folk builders to make sure that they know what's going on.

00:29:34.480 If members are asking and folk builders are sharing and if everybody's working from their

00:29:39.220 angle to get it done i think we'll have the best communication but we're always working on

00:29:43.940 something better right now we have cliff erickson working behind the scenes to get us some sort of

00:29:51.620 a forum situation created or a better situation for us to communicate beyond all of these external

00:29:57.780 social media platforms so we're working on that we'll certainly let you guys know when that's

00:30:01.940 available ryan thank you for sharing that story with us i think that's that's a really beautiful

00:30:20.260 thing and i'm i'm excited that you're uh that your friend wants to wants to be also true now

00:30:41.140 we got folks over on the side advocating for florida as a possible home for our next hoff

00:30:46.420 That's certainly on the short list. We would love to see a Hoff in Florida.

00:30:51.300 If you're in Florida and you want to make that happen, get in touch with your local folk builder. 0.87

00:30:56.740 If you are a folk builder in Florida and you want to make that happen,

00:31:00.660 start letting us know on the back end, start helping us look for property.

00:31:04.100 But right now, one of the biggest things on when and if, or not if, but when and where we get our

00:31:09.460 next half has to do with getting our finances in order and being in a position not only to purchase

00:31:16.340 the half but to take care of it and we're working on that on the back end you guys have been very

00:31:21.300 generous that situation is in that situation is improving we're going to run some numbers

00:31:27.860 uh come midsummer that's kind of the beginning of our afa business year and figure out where we're

00:31:34.660 at and what steps we need to take to get, get to that next level to where we can go ahead and make

00:31:40.900 New York's awful reality. But for folks who want to see that happen in Florida, it's certainly,

00:31:46.160 you know, it's certainly on a list of very few places that it's near the top of, of, of where

00:31:51.980 we'd love to see that. So you guys got decent odds, help me find a spot and help build up your area

00:31:59.100 and make it a shining example of where the next big thing for the AFA is going to be.

00:32:04.660 Okay, also Jason asks on the side, how often important and advantageous do I feel volunteering

00:32:25.140 with other charities slash 501c3s are to the representation and reputation of the

00:32:31.700 Ask True Folk Assembly and individuals doing volunteering. I think context is everything

00:32:44.220 on these things. It really depends on the circumstance. I think us working and teaming

00:32:51.640 up with other charities and other 501c3s is fantastic, as long as they're in keeping with

00:32:57.860 our values. Building those relationships in communities is really important. What we've

00:33:04.720 found, certainly at Odenshoff, as far as working with other charities, if you want to get involved

00:33:11.940 in local charity, often it's its own society to where all the different charity, say all of,

00:33:19.880 most of the different charities that are successful in an area interact with each other.

00:33:23.900 I think that interface and the interacting is really important.

00:33:28.820 I want to see us where we have Hoffs focus on our charity and our 501C for distribution of resources for doing charitable work, because I think it brings the best fame and the best name to the Astro Folk Assembly and honors our church and our gods that way.

00:33:48.040 But it all depends on the situation. If you're not near a Hoff, you and other AFA members, when there's a few of you putting forward your effort towards other charitable works run by other organizations, I think is a great way to be, you know, a productive and helpful member of your community.

00:34:05.800 When you're near a Hoff, going all in, making sure that the charities that Hoff is operating and working to do, like the food distributions, that's huge.

00:34:16.500 And we would love to see that. And the more we keep that in-house and do that by the AFA, from the AFA, I think that's the most advantageous.

00:34:26.760 But again, all this depends on your scenario. As long as you're helping out and doing good things for people, good things for your community, and ultimately good things for our folk.

00:34:34.760 I think all of that's a net positive and raises a reputation and accomplishes good things in the world.

00:34:41.900 So I'd love to see all of our people do charitable work.

00:34:44.440 Okay, Cameron's asking a question, or making a suggestion, rather, of having a special

00:35:05.440 afa ordained rune caster for doing therapy needs for members across a distance because you can use

00:35:14.800 runes in a visual way over over zoom or another medium that way you can right now our gothar are

00:35:26.400 capable and qualified to do some of that um

00:35:30.320 Um, getting asked to do rune castings is not a, uh, it's not a frequent thing that our

00:35:41.280 go-thar are asked to do, but it's certainly something that they are, they are trained

00:35:44.980 to do some of, and they'd be happy to do that in situations. 0.99

00:35:50.060 I think everybody's got a little bit different method of how they do it.

00:35:53.880 Sometimes proximity and knowing somebody or even, you know, some sort of physical

00:35:59.940 contact is is important in that to other people not as much um but yeah and if you if cameron if

00:36:07.020 you or somebody you know has has the need of someone to do rune casting for you please do

00:36:12.340 reach out to your local gothi they can figure that out for you and help you with it and whatever

00:36:18.560 other resources that they need they can certainly contact me or or other of our of our of our gothar

00:36:26.580 who would love to help with that. But yeah, that's something available to you right now

00:36:30.880 if you want to ask them for help with it.

00:36:56.580 Sorry, guys, every now and again, it goes quiet because I'm trying to read over here and I don't really know a right way around that of having the dead air because I got to look on the side and read for your questions, especially when I get a little bit long winded there.

00:37:20.820 Well, Seamus, we're glad to have you here live.

00:37:26.580 uh help me know a little bit more about what you're asking you're you're from Edmonton in

00:37:36.260 Alberta Canada and you're asking you want to get involved you want to know what kind of

00:37:41.540 stuff we have out here that I can speak on what exactly are you asking about are you trying to

00:37:47.300 get connected with membership are you looking for events in your area or just what are you

00:37:52.260 what are you looking for? We would love to see more activity in Canada. Since all of the COVID

00:38:00.480 lockdowns and things, our activity in Canada has certainly slowed as it has in a lot of places in

00:38:06.800 the world, unfortunately. As some of that's loosening back up, we're having more things

00:38:11.680 happen. Our biggest group of Canadian AFA members is in British Columbia. And I believe they're

00:38:21.860 doing things we can certainly get you connected with those guys we have some folks over on in

00:38:26.480 Ontario we do have relatively few people in Alberta but we'd love to fix that and we'd love

00:38:32.780 to watch that grow and we hope that you'll that you'll help be a part of that growing but if you

00:38:38.380 reach out to your local folk builder if you are in Alberta a couple of options I would suggest you

00:38:46.060 reach out to lucas houston who is our second newest we've had a couple of folk builders join

00:38:54.380 us this month we had lucas houston in idaho joining and he's going to be the closest one

00:39:00.060 to you and he'd love to help you l houston at runestone.org we can post that address over in

00:39:06.540 the side and lucas would love to help you out um and then the other folk builder not relevant to

00:39:12.620 your question with the other folk builder that uh that joined us this month is andreas spenson

00:39:18.140 in sweden we're very excited about that i had the opportunity to meet andreas

00:39:22.780 great guy and we're really glad to have him with us

00:39:42.620 Got a lot of discussion going on in the side chat. It's nice to see everybody out there. If you got questions, please do ask. Please feel free to ask anything you like.

00:40:04.620 I'm an open book and I really want to be able to, you know, nothing's off the off limits and I want to have an open door to talk to you guys about any questions you might have.

00:40:14.600 So please don't feel uncomfortable asking anything that you'd like.

00:40:18.320 okay josh is asking he says he would like to uh eventually become a gothi and he wants to know

00:40:37.820 how to get started on that road um recently as of this last year it's become a requirement that

00:40:43.920 And anybody wanting to train to be ordained as a Gothi in the Astro Folk Assembly has to first become a folk builder and be successful and oathed in at that.

00:40:53.900 And we think that's going to be a really good thing for the future of the AFA.

00:40:58.280 And a couple of thoughts on that.

00:41:01.980 And this isn't to address your question.

00:41:04.400 Your question is what steps you need to take to do that.

00:41:07.380 If that's something you'd like to do eventually, I would suggest you talk to the folk builders and the Gothar in your region.

00:41:14.560 and build a relationship with them and start helping out.

00:41:19.840 If you if once you do that and once you're familiar with what folk building is and how

00:41:24.880 that works you would need to apply to be an apprentice folk builder or to reach out to me

00:41:29.680 rather about wanting to be an apprentice folk builder and you need to spend some time doing

00:41:34.320 folk building and eventually take your folk builder oath. Once you're an oath folk builder

00:41:39.200 then you'll have the opportunity to apply for the Gothar program if it's something you want

00:41:42.720 to pursue um but what i wanted to say while we're on it is why we have that requirement

00:41:50.080 that you be a folk builder before you become a gothi um a lot of times when people start out

00:41:58.480 and i don't don't mean to criticize it because i think we all start out there and and people are

00:42:04.240 ambitious and a lot of times people do focus on themselves people want to be a gothi for

00:42:10.400 personal reasons. They want to be a Gothi for their own spiritual development or to lead something 0.58

00:42:16.380 with a local group of friends that they might have or for those things. From the AFA's perspective,

00:42:22.980 our interest in Gothar is not for their own personal advancement or for spiritual development

00:42:29.360 of the individual. We want AFA Gothis that are interested in building the AFA, representing the

00:42:36.260 House True Folk Assembly to our membership and to our gods. So we're focused on what the Gothar 0.91

00:42:46.000 can do for the AFA and not how we can help individuals become Gothis. So the shift is a

00:42:55.040 little bit different there in what maybe some people who apply and say they want to immediately

00:42:58.980 be a Gothi is. And I'm not suggesting that has anything to do with your question, Josh. Please

00:43:03.360 don't take it that way. What we've found, and I'm very excited about, is people who put in the work,

00:43:11.860 sometimes the unglamorous work of being a folk builder and spending that time taking care of

00:43:17.900 the needs of our membership, getting to know the local members in their area, getting to know and

00:43:22.960 interact with the leaders in the Astro Folk Assembly, and really taking that time to be part 1.00

00:43:28.020 of their community and be involved they do a much better job when they're when they're a gothi

00:43:34.660 because they're already a leader in our church they're already taking care of our members 0.72

00:43:41.780 and so they're in a position to be successful as a gothi

00:43:45.220 so we're excited to see that but yeah those are the steps that you would take

00:43:58.020 okay uh canon asks is hell evil and he has trouble getting a straight answer on that i don't blame

00:44:13.960 you no straight answer i don't believe that hell is evil um i understand that there's a hesitation

00:44:23.480 to involve hell in your worship practice.

00:44:30.320 I think there's a certain gray area there

00:44:32.860 and there's a certain nebulousness on that.

00:44:35.920 I think we see, you know,

00:44:39.460 an honorable treatment of Balder in our lore

00:44:42.460 when he is in hell's domain.

00:44:46.680 I don't think that it's inappropriate

00:44:49.540 to respectfully interact with hell in a, in a worshipful or a, I don't even know if that's

00:44:58.060 the right term in a, uh, respectful, respectful way, interacting or, uh, you know, making an

00:45:06.780 offering or, or speaking to in that way. I think it's, I believe that hell is a deity that we should

00:45:14.560 deal with cautiously and carefully. I think anytime we want, anytime we allow that energy

00:45:25.080 into our lives, it needs to be in a controlled and a very well thought out way. Just very

00:45:31.200 literally, you don't want to welcome death into what you're doing, unless it's for a very specific

00:45:37.020 reason and it's done in a very respectful way. But I'm not one that thinks that hell is evil

00:45:43.620 shouldn't be interact with that's that's not where i'm coming from or where the afa is coming from

00:45:48.180 that's that's i hope that's a straight enough answer and i hope that helps

00:46:13.620 I'm sorry. I'm I'm digging through the conversation on the end. You guys got a very rich conversation going on there.

00:46:24.760 Food pantry thing is a great thing for everybody.

00:46:28.200 I am so proud and so excited that the AFA has been involved in distributing food from Odenshof for over two years now.

00:46:35.920 I'm very excited. We're going to be getting up food distributions at Thorshof and Baldershof imminently.

00:46:43.620 We've got our Hoff managers in those areas getting that all set up in a range right now.

00:46:50.280 It's such a good thing to be able to, there's so many, sometimes we get caught up in our head or

00:46:55.260 caught up in planning. Yes, it's really good for our reputation. Yes, it makes us look good.

00:47:04.280 Yes, it's great public relations. Yes, it's all those things. But fundamentally,

00:47:09.340 it's really nice to be able to help people. And it really feels good to be able to be part of

00:47:16.300 the community in a helpful way that's building people up, taking care of people, making sure

00:47:20.780 hungry people eat. And it's, it's nice for them. And I think it really helps out in the community.

00:47:26.620 But also, it's nice for us. I've said this before, but

00:47:31.380 so often we can get bogged down in the stresses of the world around us

00:47:37.940 and all the things that we wish we had some hand in making better and we feel helpless to do

00:47:44.600 something about all the things that we can't control and we just want to complain about or

00:47:50.300 fuss about. It's really special to have an opportunity to where we as an AFA family can

00:47:56.580 make something better we can make somebody their day their family's day better by a little bit of

00:48:04.340 charity work and that's a really good it's a really good feeling um and i'm really proud that

00:48:10.500 i've been able to to be there and experience and do some of that i'm really happy that our members

00:48:14.980 have been able to do that and i'm excited that we as the afa are making the world a better place

00:48:20.340 so i i think the charity stuff's really great we are joined again by my beautiful daughter aubrey

00:48:27.220 and she's awesome since last time that i talked to you she is now one year old

00:48:33.540 and she's an amazing little girl she's about to have two top teeth well we got the camera 0.86

00:48:38.020 you only see in half of her head and that's weird but she's about to have two top teeth she's got

00:48:44.020 three bottom teeth and she is she is wonderful and i'm so very very fortunate to have this

00:48:53.780 beautiful little baby girl with me but yep can you say hi wave you can oh she can see 0.97

00:49:03.300 yourself over this direction. Can you wave? There we go. Yay. All right. Thank you. Good night. 1.00

00:49:20.420 All right, guys. Thank you for indulging me there for a second.

00:49:22.900 colton i'm sorry i'm unfamiliar with what the njp is i'm not sure what that stands for

00:49:52.900 Megan asks, are there any plans for, is it possible to have vegetable gardens at Hoffs?

00:50:05.560 Absolutely, it's possible. What we've found, though, is we need dedicated people to come

00:50:13.500 and take care of gardens. So if we want to have a garden growing at the Hoff, we need

00:50:18.360 folks that are there regularly to weed it, to take care of it, to water it, to do the work

00:50:24.740 that's necessary to take care of a garden there. Sounds like a really good idea in the abstract,

00:50:29.880 but if we only have people there a few times a month, it's not really a doable thing. If you

00:50:35.300 or folks in your area are close to a local hof and you guys want to be there and want to grow 0.99

00:50:39.320 vegetables and want to get some of that going, I think we can certainly do plan our boxes. We can

00:50:45.060 do a lot of stuff to start making that happen. And yeah, we'd love to see that. We'd love to

00:50:49.980 have growing things and grow food at our haughts. Just take some people that are going to have the 1.00

00:50:55.520 time and the availability and the proximity to the haught to make those gardens thrive and be

00:51:00.520 successful. Yeah, we'd love to see that.

00:51:15.060 Shame us not to worry.

00:51:32.060 You're asking if there's stuff you can get involved in in the Edmonton area?

00:51:36.900 Stuff that's already going on for you to get involved in?

00:51:39.580 No. If you want to start something to get involved in, we would love to help you be successful at that.

00:51:45.680 We would love to help you gather people in your area and get together and get the ball rolling.

00:51:50.120 And I'd suggest you reach out to Lucas. Reach out to me personally.

00:51:53.920 We'd love to see you be successful at that. So please do reach out and we'd like to make that happen.

00:51:59.620 Unfortunately, as of now, we don't have, you know, big things going on in Alberta, Canada.

00:52:06.480 But we would love to see that happen and we'd love to help make that happen.

00:52:20.000 Yeah, Colton, I'm sorry, I'm just not very familiar with, but thank you for telling me the National Justice Party.

00:52:24.920 I'm not very familiar with that organization or their platform or anything about them.

00:52:30.020 This is the first time I'm hearing about them.

00:52:35.760 Apparently, we've already got some raspberries growing at Baldur's Hoff.

00:52:47.540 I was unaware of that.

00:52:48.500 That's awesome.

00:52:49.040 Raspberries are great.

00:52:49.820 Hmm.

00:53:05.760 I'd like to give a plug out there.

00:53:18.160 Anybody who can make it to our Wisconsin event this weekend, I'd love to see you there.

00:53:23.500 I'm looking forward to being there, to seeing all my family in Wisconsin.

00:53:29.480 I'm going to have a great event there honoring the folk mother, Elsie Christensen.

00:53:33.620 If you can make it out to that, like I say, I'd love to see you there.

00:53:36.320 And a little bit further out at Midsommar, we would love to see you at Odenshoth in Brownsville, California.

00:53:42.320 If you can make your plans now, get in touch with folk builders there.

00:53:46.260 Get in touch with Crystal over on the side.

00:53:47.980 She's talking about it.

00:53:49.340 We'd love to have everybody at Midsommar.

00:53:51.380 It's our biggest event of the year.

00:53:53.420 It's kind of our flagship AFA event.

00:53:57.360 Last year, we had a record number of people there.

00:53:59.380 We had 142 folks at Midsommar last year.

00:54:02.000 so we are we tend to have a good turnout there and we would love to host you guys at odin's hof

00:54:09.740 to to show you our hof show you your hof and to uh to have you be out there and experience it with

00:54:17.340 us so i invite y'all if you can come out to midsummer at odin's hof please do please think

00:54:21.660 about it. Yes, as far as accommodations for midsummer, Githya Sheila MacNallan was compiling

00:54:39.340 a list of those. If you contact Sheila, Sheila at roomstone.org, or if you get a message to her over

00:54:45.540 on the side here, she is putting together a list of places to stay where people can lodge if

00:54:51.480 they're coming in from out of town to to celebrate midsummer with us at Odin's Hoth.

00:55:21.480 Oh, yeah. Those of you who've been to Odenshoff and may have missed it earlier this year,

00:55:32.240 the parcel of property right next to Odenshoff, we've acquired that over this last year. It's a

00:55:38.800 beautiful, beautiful section of land there. It adds a lot to the property. Odenshoff's in this

00:55:45.400 little town of Brownsville, but it feels like we're in the middle of nowhere camping or something.

00:55:49.860 It's beautiful. It's wooded, amazing, huge trees out there. Redwoods, beautiful stuff. It's a really nice place. And we've just, you know, increased that property again, probably by about a third since last time you've been out there. So I'm eager to show that off to you guys as well if you come out.

00:56:19.860 All right, Jason. I'm going to hold you to that. You heard it here, folks. Baldershof is planning

00:56:38.400 on doing their first food distribution on May the 29th. So I'm very eager to see how that goes.

00:56:43.800 I'm very happy to do whatever I can on my end to help make that happen. And anybody in the area,

00:56:49.320 I'm sure they would really appreciate you volunteering to help out.

00:56:53.100 But yeah, Goathe Plurred is heading up, getting that established and getting that going.

00:56:58.560 So good job, Jason.

00:57:00.680 I'm excited to see it.

00:57:19.320 Sorry, guys, I'm catching up over on the side.

00:57:46.120 There's a lot of talk going on.

00:57:49.320 And I appreciate that. I'm glad you guys are having a good discussion there.

00:58:19.320 good mary i'm glad i cleared that up mary was asking earlier about an alternative to

00:58:26.840 to vk and to our telegram groups that are kind of sloppy it's just the nature of telegram it's

00:58:31.960 a running ongoing conversation a lot of our people will check in maybe in the morning and

00:58:36.280 then by the time they check back in in the evening there's 500 messages to sort through it's

00:58:41.160 unfortunate it's just the nature of that platform but like i said earlier cliff erickson is working

00:58:46.360 hard on the back end to make something better happen for us

00:59:03.880 that's a very good suggestion on the side everybody's all excited about growing their

00:59:08.760 own produce growing their own stuff the suggestion is the kindreds in the area can grow their own

00:59:14.040 produce and bring it to supply the Hoff with it. And I'm sure every one of our Hoffs would love to

00:59:19.540 see that happen. We do have people that from time to time bring things from their own gardens or

00:59:24.940 from their own properties. If they have orchards or whatever they have going on,

00:59:29.160 they bring those out to Odin's Hoff and we use that as part of the meal. I know that 0.51

00:59:33.680 a lot of the time we have folks in kindreds that share the things that they grow

00:59:38.920 or animals that they, that they raise with the rest of us or, um, game that they hunt. Certainly

00:59:45.820 that's a big thing up in Alaska. Those folks, when they hunt and fish, share that with the kindred.

00:59:50.520 Um, so yeah, any kindreds who want to help supply the hof with, with groceries that,

00:59:56.500 that you produce, absolutely. I'm sure that they would love it. And that'd be a really

01:00:00.140 cool thing for you guys to do.

01:00:08.920 Okay, we got a question.

01:00:35.560 And when donating to the AFA, should one donate directly to their local Hoff or to the general fund?

01:00:42.320 Yes, both.

01:00:46.680 Obviously, you know, any donation to any of the Hoffs or to the general fund is much appreciated.

01:00:56.520 They're all going to go to building this AFA family and doing great things with it.

01:01:02.360 It depends.

01:01:03.660 general fund money is is much more flexible for us to put on different ones of these

01:01:09.580 projects including very often the general fund goes into supporting projects at the individual

01:01:15.760 Hoffs there's no wrong answer to that question but wherever you feel compelled to give if you

01:01:23.300 want to give it to us generally to to spend where we think it's most effective or if you really

01:01:28.100 want to see it go into your local Hoff maybe you have a close association with that place

01:01:33.500 maybe you have a close desire to spend that on the temple to one of our particular gods.

01:01:40.600 So that's going to be up to you, but thank you. And any of those sources you want to give it to,

01:01:46.300 it's going to go someplace good and it's going to accomplish our mission.

01:02:03.500 So, Rose, what I would suggest as far as, so we got a question on the side.

01:02:22.180 A member lives in the Northeast and wants to see more things happen there.

01:02:26.040 Not just moots, but other big stuff happen there.

01:02:29.300 um i wish there was a magical like boom do this and everything will explode and it'll blow up

01:02:37.620 overnight and there's not but what you need to do is be involved be involved with your local

01:02:44.400 community be involved with your local folk builders be involved with gothar in your area

01:02:50.240 and build that region make sure it's consistent has folks that get together 1.00

01:02:55.080 You know, if there's moots, do you go to those moots? If there's not moots close to you, 1.00

01:03:00.160 do you want to host one close to you and get support on doing that? What can we do to make 1.00

01:03:05.400 something build? Because it really does start with those small things. Maybe the moot is a

01:03:10.760 pub moot. Maybe it's at a park. Maybe it's a hike. Maybe it's bowling. Whatever you'd like to do,

01:03:17.700 getting folks together. If you know members that should be part of the AFA that aren't,

01:03:22.200 Why aren't they? Get them to join. Get them to be part of what we're doing.

01:03:26.340 The more that you grow a healthy membership in your area and the more involved you are in that membership, the bigger and better things will happen there.

01:03:34.240 I would love to see really great things happen in the Northeast.

01:03:37.340 We've got a ton of members over there. Getting them to come out and be involved and do things together is a harder prospect.

01:03:44.800 So be part of making that happen. And however you can do that, I think that's your best bet on getting something to happen in your area.

01:03:52.200 Lucas is asking a question on the side.

01:04:04.460 Mentions that a large part of his family are Spaniards.

01:04:10.700 And the rest are another large part of his family are Italians and Frenchmen.

01:04:16.340 And he wants to know if he can be part of this faith.

01:04:17.940 Absolutely.

01:04:19.760 We are Pan-Aryan.

01:04:21.620 We are pan-European. We believe that Ausatru is the expression of that Aryan religiosity of all

01:04:29.780 of our folk that's common. Yes, Ausatru tends to be a Germanic expression of that, but we welcome

01:04:39.460 Italians, Spaniards, and Frenchmen in our family, absolutely, and we would love to have you join up

01:04:45.540 and be part of what we're doing. We believe that the indigenous folks of Europe are

01:04:50.260 are part of one big family that way.

01:04:53.000 And we'd love to see that family come together.

01:05:21.120 Also, Githya Schapansky is mentioning over in the side that Baldershof is looking at doing special days there for canning and preserving all the great things that folks grow there.

01:05:33.640 So that's something to look into, too.

01:05:35.200 If you're close to Baldershof and you have an interest in that, that's something they've been talking about doing there.

01:05:39.240 you know roy's mentioning on the side that it's a shame we're all so spread out and so separated

01:05:50.360 yes and no um it's really easy to think that way i think that way too often like man if the afa

01:05:59.160 were all in one town or you know one county somewhere we would be a force to be reckoned

01:06:06.260 We would. We could fill space, we could do so much stuff with all of us together, and I'd love I'd love that.

01:06:15.260 And that offers a lot of its own benefits and it's easy to see those.

01:06:19.260 But what is really cool, and I've said this before, the sun never sets on the AstroFolk Assembly.

01:06:25.260 We've got members in both hemispheres.

01:06:28.260 We've got members in Europe, in South Africa, in Australia, New Zealand, member in South America.

01:06:40.080 We have members so many different places and being spread out, we have seeds in all these different places to watch things grow.

01:06:50.580 Now we're growing and we're doing great things, but we have so much room to grow.

01:06:54.880 there's so many of our people still yet to come home that we have potential everywhere we've got

01:07:01.360 afa members to plant that seed and make something grow the other ad advantage of how many places

01:07:09.920 that we have members not only how many places we have members but how many places we have groups

01:07:14.720 of members is when you're part of the afa you're part of a family that's all over the place i know

01:07:22.960 know you get different parts of the world it's more spread out but certainly here in the United

01:07:26.340 States pretty much anywhere you find yourself you're within a few hours of family that means

01:07:31.520 you have people that will help you out you got a place to stay very often you've got people that

01:07:37.340 can can help you if times are rough or you've just got people you can visit if you're passing

01:07:42.480 through if you're traveling if you want to celebrate our holy days and you find yourself

01:07:47.060 away from home. You have family wherever you go when you're with the AFA. And it's not just a

01:07:54.840 theory. It's real. We have members that do it very often. Our leadership certainly do it. I would

01:08:00.760 encourage everyone who's part of the AFA to reach out to people when you go places. Reach out to

01:08:05.300 their local folk builders to get you connected with folks. Make those connections if and when

01:08:10.360 you travel, so that you are part of the bigger AFA family that we have, because it's a really

01:08:17.220 important resource that comes from us being as spread out as we are.

01:08:20.700 INR, we do have members applying every so often from Ontario.

01:08:40.900 Like I said, a lot of activity slowed way down in Canada during the COVID times, but

01:08:46.980 want to see that kick back up and Ontario is a very attractive area with with a lot of interest

01:08:52.100 for the AFA so we do have things growing there slowly but they are growing.

01:09:16.980 Sorry, guys, I'm catching up in the chat over on the side here, making sure I'm trying to trying to make sure I'm answering everybody.

01:09:42.780 If there's somebody who's asked something I haven't gotten to you, please ask again and I'll try to get to you.

01:09:46.980 I know we've come up on an hour here, probably not going to go too much longer, but if you

01:09:52.480 guys have questions you want to get in, please ask them over on the side and I'll try to

01:09:56.040 make sure I get to them.

01:09:57.300 It's been a little bit different tonight because you guys are having so much of a robust conversation

01:10:01.440 on the side and I'm trying to sort through it.

01:10:16.980 Something else to look out for at Baldershof that Gauthier Plurid is pointing out.

01:10:29.160 We have some members that have had problems with addiction issues.

01:10:34.620 So there is a sobriety group that we're going to try to test out at Baldershof and see how that works.

01:10:41.520 It's going to be ran by some of our members who've had that experience and come to the other side of it

01:10:45.900 and want to help those of our membership

01:10:48.980 or others that may be struggling with that

01:10:52.540 or that may be in a constant struggle

01:10:54.580 to try to stay on the right side of that.

01:10:57.160 So if you're in the area, if you want to help out

01:11:00.200 or if you're somebody who's struggling with addiction,

01:11:03.160 we'd love to help.

01:11:04.920 The folks at Baldershoff are going to have some meetings

01:11:06.900 to try to get folks together and be supportive on that.

01:11:10.860 So we'd encourage you to reach out to Gauthier Plurd,

01:11:14.580 Githya Schapansky.

01:11:15.660 they can get you set up with with times and availability on that and like i say we'd

01:11:21.660 certainly love to help with that and hopefully this is going to be a nice a nice project that

01:11:25.980 that's able to help some folks out

01:11:41.420 all right guys does anybody else have anything that they'd like to discuss this evening or

01:11:45.660 that they'd like to hear me talk about.

01:11:48.540 I appreciate you guys joining.

01:11:50.540 I appreciate so much enthusiasm on the side tonight.

01:11:53.380 It's been great.

01:11:54.220 Thank you to everybody who's asked questions.

01:11:57.200 Like I say, let's give it a few more seconds over here

01:11:59.300 to see if anybody wants to slide any more questions in.

01:12:02.700 And then I will talk to you all next month.

01:12:12.400 Folkbuilder James Allen says,

01:12:13.920 hey, Ontario people, please reach out to him. He is very interested in getting that going and

01:12:18.340 making sure Ontario is successful. I'm sorry, James Alt is excited about getting Ontario

01:12:25.900 successful, jalt, A-U-L-T, at runestone.org. He'd love to help you out.

01:12:43.920 I know, James. I'm sorry.

01:13:00.320 All right, guys, thank you all so much for being here tonight. I appreciate you guys.

01:13:04.800 It's great to talk to you. I look forward to it every month. Please join me again next month.

01:13:09.160 We'll have this conversation again. Any questions, feel free to email me.

01:13:14.160 Feel free to pre-populate them in the side chat once I have next month's chat scheduled.

01:13:20.720 And yeah, thank you guys so much. Hope you guys are all doing well.

01:13:24.060 And we'll talk to you guys again next time.

01:13:26.080 Hail the gods. Hail the folk. Hail the AFA.

Asatru Folk Assembly - May 03, 2021

May 2021 Live Discussion

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