We just moved to a smaller apartment recently, which means we looked through all our stuff (until we hit our TIME TO MOVE NOW deadline and needed to just start throwing shit in boxes and slinging it to the new place), and I decided to take the Buckland’s Big Blue with us. Buckland’s is a witchcraft book by Ray Buckland that is, in some circles, considered THE starting point for beginners.
I haven’t spent a lot of time with it. What I’ve looked at in it, I haven’t been impressed with. But I’m keeping it anyway. Because I’m reasonably sure this is my second copy, and that SOMETHING would conspire to drop it in my lap AGAIN if I didn’t.
Cuz again, I’m PRETTY SURE I bought a copy in high school, hid it from my parents, and got rid of it before or at college, since Secret Book Space was at a premium.
I didn’t buy the current copy. I’m not even supposed to still have it.
I DON’T borrow books from people. I’m well aware I’m flaky, and had I Don’t Borrow People’s Books (libraries are Different) as a standing rule for myself by the time I was in college, when I joined a Pagan group that met weekly at the Interfaith Center. It was good, I made friends, we did some Sabbats, and went to the leader’s house a few times, a dude in about his 60s or so. Since only 2 of us group members were still college students, the rest just lived in town or had graduated and stuck around, the whole group had a nice, very laid back, “we don’t have any deadlines to worry about in our relationship with each other” vibe.
So of course, the leader guy felt himself to be in a mentorship role of us newbies.
And he Swore By Buckland’s Big Blue.
When he learned I didn’t have a copy, he Insisted I borrow his.
No, that’s fine, I don’t borrow books from people.
No, he insisted. Just bring it back.
No, I don’t borrow books, I’m too flaky.
No, it’s okay, I trust you, just bring it back.
Gods Damn It!
So that’s how I got our copy (not actually ours) of Buckland’s Big Blue.
I really should mail it to him, or something.
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