8 GOG members attended the Free Spirit Festival in Maryland.
Maggie and Pat led a discussion of American Gods attended by 9 people, and then led a walking ADF ritual to Asphaltia that had 16 people and picked up hitchikers. We had air fresheners to hang around our wrists and little cars to drive. As Maggie and Pat led us with Walky Guy opening the gates and the Red Hand stopping us at appropriate points, we heckled our driver with "Are we there yet?" and "When's the next rest stop?" and "He's bothering me..." and sang road songs. Our well was a radiator and our muse a radio (which, when we switched it on, said, "She's here. I can see her.") Our omens were cast on a map of the northeast. The waters of life were Mountain Dew. It was a great ritual.
Later in the day, 7 GOG members participated in an ADF midsummer ritual to Dagda and the Morrigan led by Cenn Ruadh of Mugwort Grove and also attended by folks from Mugwort and Black Bear groves.
Free Spirit was a great time, the weather was nice, people entertaining, the fire wonderful, and the workshops inspiring.