At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for — the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?”

So you were born to feel “nice”? Instead of doing things and experiencing them? Don’t you see the plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order, as best they can? And you’re not willing to do your job as a human being? Why aren’t you running to do what your nature demands?

You don’t love yourself enough. Or you’d love your nature too, and what it demands of you.

Marcus Aurelius

The Old English term grǣg-hama meant grey-coated or grey-cloaked and was a kenning for a wolf. Tolkien later used the term as a name for Gandalf in Gandalf Greyhame.

The battle frenzy was come upon the Friend of the Raven. He was no more the gray-bearded husband of Frig, but Grim, the Masked One. The All-father, host of the Hall of Happiness, had donned a different aspect. Now was he Fire-eyed, the Evildoer, Blind, Double-blind. Out of decay arises growth; from destruction, rebirth; from fire, fertilization. The god bears more than one face, though he be one behind the masks.

- The Coming of the King. Nicolai Tolstoy.
- Art by Arthur Rackham.

The names Tolstoy uses to describe Odin are all attested - (Báleygr, Bǫlverkr, Blindr, Tvíblindi)

The time for reaction passes once one becomes aware of a problem. A reaction should be a momentary thing, like an expression of shock or disgust across one's face before they set their expression in stone and go about fixing the problem. The time for reaction to the rotten state of our world has long since passed and now it's time to start building the counter to the poison of this world. In that spirit and with that knowledge in mind, you need to start focusing your talents (whatever those might be) on your place in the community that's already here, and the world we all want to see.

Whatever it is that animates your muscle with natural, flowing movements and gets you active without even needing to think about it is your natural place. For me, this is in crafts. I'm a blacksmith by passion and nature and even when I knew nothing, I knew enough naturally to set about making knives and gate handles. I'm more learned now and can actually make something that looks like something, whereas before I was beating metal and wondering why it looked so ugly.

This war of ours isn't strictly personal. Of course you and I as individuals are affected by the poison of our enemy's sting, but so too is every other White person in this world. Our families, friends, our communities, the budding beginnings of the new kingdoms and chiefdoms suffer from not only our enemy but our own lack of response.

Of course that isn't to discredit those that already took it upon themselves to act rather than simply react, quite the opposite in fact. They ought to act as touchstones for us who are alive and active now to look back on and take inspiration from. But we need to do better than them. So much better.

In this spirit we need to stop thinking solely as individuals ("How does this affect me, personally?") and start thinking about our people, our communities, and building those communities. We need to build up our people, rather than tear them down. We need to start thinking about how to inspire other White folk, how to knock them out of their stupors and bring them into awareness so that they can reap the benefits of a community they help to create.

Stop giving energy to the rotten, to the degenerate, and to the poisonous. Your thoughts, if they are filled with poison, will create poison through your hands and tongue and face. By spreading poison, you sicken your people, and you bring them down rather than build them up.

Your thoughts, if they are filled with virtue, will if you have the mind to act upon your virtue and your search for rightness create beautiful things and inspire the people who look at you and see you striving for beauty and goodness rather than spreading further sorrow and poison.

Control your mind, temper your thoughts, act with goodness and bravery, and start acting rather than just reacting. Your people need you.

Calling the gods according to our heritage. These aren’t all, but to name a few…

Óðinn (Odin) = Wóden
Þórr (Thor) = Þunor (Thunor)
Freyr = Fréa (Seaxnéat) (Ing)
Frigg = Fríġe
Freyja = Frówe
Baldr = Bældæġ
Heimdallr = Háma
Völundr = Wéland
Mímir = Mimor
Urðr = Wyrd