Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
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Stories for Isaac Bonewits

Some of you may have heard that Isaac Bonewits is in declining health.  Phaedra Bonewits has a discussion going on the "Isaac and Phaedra Bonewits" page on FaceBook, inviting people to share their favorite memories of Isaac.  Here are mine.

When I went to the Pagan Summit, I met both Isaac and Phaedra. I have two delightful memories of Isaac from that event:

The first gathering, as people were showing up, I pulled out a few books and asked the authors to sign them. One I'd brought for Isaac was Authentic Thaumaturgy, which is a roleplaying guidebook. Isaac signed it ... and then ran around the room showing it to people, so they could see his gaming book in comparison to all the straight-up Pagan stuff he'd written. It was just so cute.

Later on, over lunch, Isaac buttonholed me to read an essay about cats against literacy. It was so funny, I had to put my lunch down because I was laughing too hard to eat. At the time I was editing PanGaia, so I asked him to type the thing up and submit it, and it was published there.

Of all the Pagan scholars I know, Isaac is among the smartest -- and the funniest. I treasure the memories.
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lizziebelle

lizziebelle

June 28 2010, 12:54:36 UTC 11 years ago

I met Isaac a few times at Starwood and Sirius Rising, and he was always chatty and friendly. One time, he invited me into his booth, offered me a soda, and told me the story of why his ex-wife Sally and Judy Harrow had a running feud (I had been in CoG with Judy). I've missed seeing him there the past few years.