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Budget for True Pagan Warrior

• Wikipedia for Pagans: wikiprojects Done

• • list of WfP posts Done

• • Wikipedia for pagans: using talk pages Done

• • Wikipedia for pagans: verifiability is not truth Done

• • Wikipedia for pagans: finding reliable sources Done

• • Wikipedia for pagans: articles for deletion Done

• • Wikipedia for pagans: building consensus Done

• • Wikipedia for pagans: countering pagan bias Done

• • Wikipedia for pagans: nothing ever disappears Done

• Wikipedia for pagans: conflicts of interest Done

• Wikipedia for pagans: creating a Wikipedia account Done

• Wikipedia for pagans: pagan solidarity

• Spirit moves slowly in humans Done

• My ancestors and depression
• Spirit made me buy it: sometimes we buy an item because it calls to us or we are moved by spirit, but it could be the spirit of money that's doing the moving
• Pagan Blog Project ideas
  • Profit is not immoral if it uses xenia
  • oaths, their power and their peril
  • oracles Done

• • possession
• Real money magic
  • Real money magic: compounding
  • Real money magic: coin flips Rick has a friend that flips a coin for decisions, and might disagree with the choice but flipping the coin makes it feel real. Duncan says that you know what you want your choice to be as soon as it's in the air.
  • Real money magic: coins honor our heroes
  • Real money magic: changing the world we don't all have enough money just to throw arouind, and thrift is important, but spending for good may cost money or convenience. How we change the world in how we do not spend is also important.
• resacralizing profanity
• Suicide is not a solitary choice
• Emotions are not thoughts
• Poseidon is Santa
• Elements and money (for money book promotion)
  • Money is earth
  • Money is air
  • Money is fire
  • Money is water
• Discordian tales
  • the prodigal hot dog Done

• in the beginning Done

• fallen apple
• greyface and gomorrah

• • away in a stranger
  • I asked for a sign and I got "exit 69"
  • the bull shits; the cow says, "mu" Done

• • Gestaltica, or how a flaming carrot saved the world
• Signs are infuriating: we cannot directly communicate with animals or gods, after all
• Choosing my religion: Gaiapeds
• tale of the spongy moth caterpillar and the oak
• mirror spell for accepting privilege
• thickened water on death: thickened water is often what we last drink, presaging the moment of peak worship of Hades—not a menial role, as suggested by Garland (58)
• Hospitality: emotions are visitors and should be treated with respect, but not expected to move in
• Goodnight, Muninn and other tales
• Wild Hunt retrospective to be posted in 2028 for the 10-year anniversary

Patheos Pagan

• Modern Witchcraft with the Greek Gods Done

• Lights, Camera, Witchcraft
• Hades: Myth, Magic, and Modern Devotion

Workshops

• CTCW 2025: Rising tides, troubled waters Not done

• CTCW 2025: Quaker worship for pagans Done

• LlewellynCon 2025: Unchaining your money familiar
• LlewellynCon 2025: If you thought justice was blind, let's talk about money (Ploutos and animism)
• LlewellynCon 2025: Real money magic (category)

Panthea

• Heroes and ancestors ritual to offer as programming in 2021
• Quaker worship for pagans Done

• fart ritual Done

• Ancestor shrine opening ritual 202310 Done

• Ancestor ritual 202310 Done

• Panthea workshop proposals 2023
• Greater Goosenalia
• Panthea workshop proposals 2024
• Ancestor rituals 2025 opening-fire-main-close

Quakers

Spark

• Writing my memorial minute
• I am not your F/friend

New Paltz monthly meeting

• QD: members vs attenders Done

• QD: mystics vs activists
• QD: nominated vs volunteering Done

• QD: worshiping with eyes open or shut
• Lois Pomeroy
• Vivi Hlavsa
• John Rosett
• Quakerism write-up Done

• QD: greeting silently or aloud
• QD: silence vs stillness
• QD: minutes vs movement of spirit such as locating the collection box
• How to archive minutes
• QD: wall or online calendar
• NPMM minutes 20250518 Done

• QD: do we worship or meditate?
• QD: prophet or pest?
• Robb Magee
• QD: simplicity vs other testimonies
• QD: season vs spirit when it comes to preparing to worship over business
• QD: discipline vs discussion: why should we only speak once to a business issue, or during worship generally?
• QD: prepared vs spontaneous ministry
• QD: silence vs popcorn
• Ingrid Hughes
• NPMM minutes 20250615
• QD: shall we worship first, or get right to business?

Powell House

• quaker ministry class homework Not done

Ministry

• Stone Mountain (see Quaker intro for Pagans and Quaker worship for pagans)

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Budget for TPW

• Merchandise ideas
• Sojourner Truth
• Thrifty Pagan workshop
• One Nation, Under Gods
• A Familiar's Book of Shadows
• Thrifty Pagan workbook
• Sword of Santa
• Sacred journalism as ministry, includes capitalization and the order of the occult hand or Grammatis Personae which could actually be a novel about sacred linguistic constructs
• Yoni change purse spells
• Heroes and ancestors ritual
• sourdough starter, a story about the spirit of sourdough that is vitalized during this pandemic like the avatar of a city
• rambling thoughts
• Ministry report 2022 Done

• depression journal
• Peanut Quarterly style guide
• Dear Sheila
• Dear Beren about family trauma
• Ward finances 2024 Not done

• Robb writing Done

• Slow Magic blurb
• Peter Pan punks Ebenezer Scrooge
• Clarence Thomas letter
• Ward finances 2025
• Jade swimming lessons

substack

• stocks are the first investment, and can be used to experiment with more complicated vehicles like cryptocurrency and real estate
• Pick one: affordable home ownership or building wealth through real estate, because these may be contradictory
• inflation is never transitory
• minimum payments are terrible
• cryptocurrency: we can't make money out of nothing after all
• celebrating bad news "take it from Poppy" and other economic miscreants; there is a way to profit in any economy but there's classless ways to do it

medium

• in praise of public editors
• third person Done

• The
• words mean things and have power and that power can be misused such as "literally"
• in praise of standard language Done

• title case Done

• try to
• motion v move a vote
• incidents v incidence
• between: 60 and 80, or 60 to 80?
• recurring or reoccurring dreams
• batter or batten down the hatches
• journalistic integrity and opinions are not mutually exclusive
• in praise of pronouns
• avoid unnecessary words, say the sages Strunk and White
• punctuation doesn't need to be spoken because it's pronounced (quote unquote, parenthetically, dot dot dot, question mark for uptalk)
• category:words journalists should avoid including countless (make a template what it means how it's used why journalists shouldn't)
• in praise of the schwa including Feb. 28 as "schwa appreciation day"
• "I spoke with my colleague" is not journalism
• On dialing back how journalists use gender
• Are journalists already relying on AI too much? Done

• report stock percentages, not point changes
• polling is not news
• in praise of word pairings that make sense Everything from needs to

Both as well as 11:30ish https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wsj-whats-news/id152016440?i=1000644690791; 9:18 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wsj-whats-news/id152016440?i=1000646677546; see note "The more..."

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budget for Hudson Valley One

and

• looking ahead NP 2026 consider Teresa Thompson
• ADA and shoveling sidewalks

23

• due Jun 10: NP regatta 70th anniversary Done

24

• due Jun 15: NP VB 20250611 Done

• due Jun 15: NP no kings day 20250614 Done

25

• due Jun 22: NP Juneteenth 2025 Done

• due Jun 24: NP election results 2025

26

• due Jun 25: Gotto have options Done

• due Jun 29: NP VB 20250625
• due Jun 29: NP graduation 2025
• due June 29: Middle school rock 202506

27

• due July 5: NP TB 20250703

THC

• Rove vape pen
• Harney nighttime chamomile tea
• Hysteria milk chocolate
• cookie recipe

Budget for Llewellyn Worldwide

• money book
• money deck
  • money book and deck pitch
• Slow Magic Done

• grammar magic book compile various grammar pages and give it a cauldron title and a book ideas category

CoSE work

• ministry report 2024 Done

• bylaws proposal 2024 Not done

• ministry report 2025
• CoSE interest email
• CoSE welcome email

wedding prospects

• Wedding of Ari and Spencer Done

• offbeat wed recap of Ari and Spencer

• wedding of Fabiana Cellini Done

• wedding of Aaron Rudder and Beatriz Musong 5/25/25
• wedding of Ed and Neresa 5/25/25
• wedding of Megan McGovern and Tavin 9/20/25
• wedding of Anna Van Ness 10/4/25