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Budget for True Pagan Warrior

• Suicide is not a solitary choice Done

• Emotions are not thoughts Done

• Poseidon is Santa Done

• Elements and money Done

(for money book promotion)

• • Money is air Done

• • Money is fire Done

• • Money is water Done

• Discordian tales
  • the prodigal hot dog Done

• in the beginning Done

• fallen apple Done

• 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 Done

• 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
• 10 magical money tips
• I am a witch
• What mysteries but death? I venerate the dead, yet have little curiosity about death. Bring me living mysteries, please.
• Lights, Camera, Witchcraft
• Hades: Myth, Magic, and Modern Devotion
• myth of the gadfly spurred on to cause a distraction, now it's focused on exposing what it hidden by being as annoying as Socrates
• when not to be silent Lindy and protecting a book of shadows
• physical components as per Llewellyncon 2026

Money book promotion

• Elements and money Done

• • Money is earth Done

• • Money is air Done

• • Money is fire
  • Money is water
• Money interview questions
• 10 magical money tips

Patheos Pagan

• Modern Witchcraft with the Greek Gods Done

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

Workshops

• Harvest Gathering 2026: Sacred on the spectrum Done

• Harvest Gathering 2026: Quaker worship for pagans Done

• Harvest Gathering 2026: Discordian ritual Done

• Harvest Gathering 2026: Not your ancestors' ocean god Done

• Harvest Gathering 2026: Moosemas after dark Done

• Harvest Gathering 2026: Depression, the ancestral gift Done

• Moosemas opposite day

grimoire

• spell to shore up the European Union (look up the history and founding and flags and money and symbols)

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Panthea

• Heroes and ancestors ritual to offer as programming in 2021
• Quaker worship for pagans 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
• Panthea 2026 letter draft

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CoSE work

• CoSE interest email Not done

• CoSE welcome email
• pope smear
• ministry report 2026
• logins

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Quakers

Spark

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

New Paltz monthly meeting

• Vivi Hlavsa Done

• QD: greeting silently or aloud
• QD: do we worship or meditate?
• QD: prophet or pest?
• Robb Magee
• QD: simplicity vs other testimonies
• QD: season vs spirit Not done

• 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
• QD: shall we worship first, or get right to business?
• QD: punctuality or process is it even possible to arrive on late? integrity and spirit
• QD: process or spirit?
• How to archive meeting minutes
• NPMM minutes 20260315 Done

• state of society thoughts 2026
• NPMM minutes 20260419 Done

• NPMM minutes 20260621 Done

• NPMM minutes 20260920 Done

Ministry

• Stone Mountain (see Quaker intro for Pagans and Quaker worship for pagans)
• dumb supper Not done

Poughkeepsie

• abolition quilt
• food work
• conscientious objection

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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
• Robb writing Done

• Slow Magic Done

• 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 Done

• Poems for my children
• Dear Robin lay out meanings of tattooed sigils
• Memoir services like what was done for Robb; figure it out based on Betty's site too
• Holiday ghost stories
• Ward finances 2026

substack

• 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
• stock percentages
• shareholder resolutions Done

• Dirty Money ideas
• core inflation is a misleading statistic

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medium

• in praise of public editors 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

• 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 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"
• Wow: the disingenuous surprise of reporters interviewing other reporters (see note: wow)
• a point where

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UC fire protection

budget for Hudson Valley One

43

• due Oct 25: Wojcik traffic ticket 20251020 Done

• due Oct 25: SJ statue story correction Done

44

• due Nov. 1: Halloween 2026
• due Nov. 3: Consolidation vote reaction

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• due Nov. 8: NP TB 20261105

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• due Nov 15: Family home share program‎

Budget for News in the Gunks

consolidation notes Done

• due Nov. 8: Nearpass impact 20261105
• due Nov. 8: UC battery plans 20261105

Budget for Bluntly Speaking

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

• LlewellynCon 2026 Done

• Art of Bone-Throwing

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wedding prospects

• wedding of Stephanie and Matthew Done

• wedding of Ivy Delaterra Done

• wedding of Pam and Pete Done

• wedding of Raquel and Alex Done

• wedding of Charles 11/21/26 Not done

• wedding of Tatiana and Miguel 10/31/26
• wedding of Phillip White
• Wedding of Suzy and Joey 5/15/27
• wedding of Natalia and Maximilian 6/26/27

other stuff

• jumping the broom Done

• wedding blessings
• wedding vows Ashley and Chris, Brian and Janet
• hidden ring-bearer they are taped under a chair
• pride weddings
• oathing stones
• discordian wedding