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Budget for True Pagan Warrior

• Wikipedia for Pagans: wikiprojects Done

• • list of WfP posts Done

• • Wikipedia for pagans: editing articles Done

• • Wikipedia for pagans: using talk pages Done

• • Wikipedia for pagans: notability 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

• • make a page for these Done

• Spirit moves slowly in humans, just as it takes awhile to warm stones with breath
• 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, and the experience of serving as one
  • 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

• • 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)

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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

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CoSE work

• ministry report 2024 Done

• bylaws proposal 2024 Not done

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

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Quakers

Spark

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

New Paltz monthly meeting

• NPMM minutes 20250302 Done

• QD: members vs attenders Done

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

• QD: worshiping with eyes open or shut
• NPMM minutes 20250420 Done

• Lois Pomeroy
• Vivi Hlavsa
• John Rosett
• Quakerism write-up
• QD: greeting silently or aloud

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
• depression journal
• Peanut Quarterly style guide
• Dear Sheila
• Dear Beren Done

• Ward finances 2024 Not done

• Robb writing Done

• Slow Magic blurb
• Peter Pan punks Ebenezer Scrooge
• Clarence Thomas letter Done

• Ward finances 2025
• Jade swimming lessons Y Partly done

• Robb memoir Done

• Ward holiday letter 2025 maybe make it a horror novel; definitely include weight loss and autism

substack

• stocks are the first investment Done

• 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

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medium

• in praise of public editors
• 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 consistent word pairings 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..."

• Climate change is relevant: It's weird how climate change is rarely mentioned in stories about cutting gas taxes or pandemic management or any other related problem
• Capitalizing brand names: who's obligated to do it?
• "I'll see you on the radio"

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budget for Hudson Valley One

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• looking ahead NP 2026 consider Teresa Thompson
• volunteer firefighter OSHA regulations 2025
• ADA and shoveling sidewalks

13

• due Mar 30: UC EMS proposal 20250326 Done

14

• due Apr. 6: NP TB 20250403 Done

• due Apr. 6: Kingston day of action 20250305 Done

15

• due Apr 13: Earth Day growing tips Done

• due Apr 13: NP VB 20250409 Done

16

• due Apr 20: NP TB 20250417

17

• due Apr 27: NP VB 20250423

18

• due May 4: NP TB 20250501

20

• due May 18: NP VB 20250514
• due May 18: NP TB 20250515

THC

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

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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

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wedding prospects

• Wedding of Ari and Spencer Done

• offbeat wed recap of Ari and Spencer

• wedding of Fabiana Cellini 4/19/25
• wedding of Aaron Rudder and Beatriz Musong 5/25/25
• wedding of Megan McGovern and Tavin 9/20/25
• wedding of Anna Van Ness 10/4/25