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Wizard Gestures are a Bad Habit

As I rejoin humanity after a little over a year going slowly feral in my home and generally only speaking to gods and my cat, I find I've developed a habit that I need to break. OK I exaggerated about the aloneness a bit, I did briefly a housemate a couple of times, but still. And I also spoke to the dead a lot. Anyway. The habit is: making grand hand gestures. And I don't mean pouring Grand Marnier.

I only realized how exaggerated my gestures in response to my silent thoughts have become when I accidentally waved my hands around like some kind of Jedi in front of another human, lol. OK not so lol and writing lol is also a bad habit, brought on by excessive social media usage. Now that I can socialize in person again I need to try to get away from that too.

It's probably too soon to think about doing a Post Pandemic Belated Book Tour, especially since I'm not sure it's safe to fly yet. But I am doing some in person local things and  I definitely need to leave some of my lockdown habits behind. There are things developed during lockdown that I hope we can keep. One of them is the mass adoption of accessibility, in the form of doing meetings, conventions, and work from home. I'd like to continue to do virtual events even after in-person festivals and conventions return. But I need to leave wizard gestures behind.

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Erin Lale is the author of Asatru For Beginners, and the updated, longer version of her book, Asatru: A Beginner's Guide to the Heathen Path. Erin has been a gythia since 1989. She was the editor and publisher of Berserkrgangr Magazine, and is admin/ owner of the Asatru Facebook Forum. She also writes science fiction and poetry, ran for public office, is a dyer and fiber artist, was acquisitions editor at a small press, and founded the Heathen Visibility Project.

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