Thanks! Noone was really aware or knew much about reconstructionism before I'd joined, and I know the interest in working with animal guides and totems is something I share with one of the newbies we've gotten to join.

Or there was that time that I explained what Asatru was...and then promptly ended up explaining that it's not all racism and neo-nazis. "That's like assuming that all people who like anime are hentai tentacle freaks, or that every Wiccan is an ultra-new age fluffy bunny with a head so open her brains are falling out," was part of the analogy I believe I used.