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FIRST … Welcome to this website!

As Odinn says in the Hávamál ….

“The warm hospitality of a good host is a priceless treasure, as an impatient guest waits within, not at the door. Treat them with kindness, and fortune may follow.”

So, we invite you to sit at a warm, comfortable place by the fire … sipping on the beverage of your choice.

As your host, let me introduce myself … I am Alan Tripp, but I also go by Ka’nej Hauk (Klingon for “Hawk Who Seeks Spirit) … or simply … Hauk.

The reason for this website is because I spent much of my life feeling like I was stumbling around in the great forest … alone in the dark trying to find a spiritual path that fit me best.

Would you believe it has taken me about three decades to finally find and truly accept that I’m really allowed to walk my path and to do so with pride? … Let alone begin to understand that path.

It’s hard walking alone spiritually and even more so when you have all these questions and nowhere to turn.

And for me, it was finding others who walked paths not quite the same but similar … that finally helped me to figure things out for myself.

Now, as for THIS website, I’ve had a spiritual blog that I’ve never done much with all along … although it kept changing names and shape as it has taken me a long time to begin to become comfortable in my own skin.

So even though I do plan to share bits of my own journey, our hope here with this website is to create a Grove with seeds both online and in the real world. … Seeds that hopefully will take root and help others to find and better live their own paths as those paths speak to them.

And in our very real case as a People of European acnestry now born and raised here in North America … that we can find ways to honor both our ancestrial roots as well as this land, it’s spirits, and its native First Peoples.

So, welcome to the online home of the Druids of Turtle Island.

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