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Budget for True Pagan Warrior

• Wikipedia for Pagans: wikiprojects Done

• • list of WfP posts 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 Done

• Spirit moves slowly in humans Done

• My ancestors and depression Done

• Spirit made me buy it Done

• Pagan Blog Project ideas
  • Profit Done

• • 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: Quaker worship for pagans Done

• LlewellynCon 2025: Unchaining your money familiar Not done

• LlewellynCon 2025: If you thought justice was blind, let's talk about money (Ploutos and animism)
• LlewellynCon 2025: Real money magic (category) HG
• Neurodivergent paganism discussion group
• Paganomicon 2025: Rising tides, troubled waters HG but change name
• Paganomicon 2025: Depression, the ancestral gift
• Paganomicon 2025: Quaker worship for pagans HG
• Harvest Gathering 2026: Autism in paganism

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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

Quakers

Spark

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

New Paltz monthly meeting

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

• QD: shall we worship first, or get right to business?
• NPMM minutes 20250921 Done

• 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 20251019

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

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medium

• in praise of public editors Done

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• 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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budget for Hudson Valley One

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• ADA and shoveling sidewalks
• ADA and sandwich signs

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• due Nov. 4: Elections 2025 Done

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• due Nov. 9: NP VB 20251105 Done

• due Nov. 9: NP TB 20251106 Done

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• due Nov 16: Clear-cutting 202511 Done

• due Nov 12: Wright's Farm fire 20251111
• due Nov 16: Polar Express 2025

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• due Nov 23: NP VB 20251119 Done

• due Nov 23: NP TB 20251120

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• due Nov 30: Turkey Trot 2025

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• due Dec. 7: NP TB 20251204

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• due Dec 14: Brookside bridge update 20251210
• due Dec 14: New Paltz write-in report 2025

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• due Dec 21: TPW's best of 2025 Genia thought nobody ever hears from our writers' perspectives. I thought they should write about -- Their most interesting story of the yea -- their most controversial -- the one they felt best about getting out there, or most useful or whatever - the one they are most interesting in seeing how it plays out in the year to come -- the story they found the hardest to report on.... whatever but I think knowing what it is like to be a reporter all year long must bring up some interesting thoughts and a different perspective on the community you live in.
• due Dec 21: Looking ahead NP person on the street 2026 For this year’s looking forward issue (December 22 with a deadline of December 19), let's ask community members to share hopes and aspirations for 2025 in their community with a list of things they hope happen that in one way or another, advances their community. Can you please ask five people from the towns you cover these questions? And if you are doing a man-on-the-street interview, can you take their picture? If you are conducting it through social media, can you please ask them to email a picture?
• due Dec 21: Looking ahead NPT 2026 Please ask them about some of the important issues facing their towns and what they are most looking forward to accomplishing in the year ahead. Please go into it with a few particular topics in mind that we know readers will want to know about, and try to get some specifics about them; mostly issues we've covered a lot already and what we can expect to happen in the coming year.

THC

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

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Budget for Religion News Service

• Heathens against Hate rally 20250301

--Budget for Pagan Solidarity==

• PS messaging 20250308

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
• Pagan Curiouser

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CoSE work

• bylaws proposal 2024 Not done

• ministry report 2025 Done

• CoSE interest email
• CoSE welcome email

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wedding prospects

• Wedding of Ari and Spencer Done

• offbeat wed recap of Ari and Spencer Not done

• wedding of Aaron Rudder and Beatriz Musong Done

• wedding of Megan McGovern and Tavin Done

• wedding of Haley Sabol and Charlie Done

• wedding of Anna Van Ness 10/4/25
• wedding of Brian and Janet 10/11/25
• wedding of Ashley Gaston and Chris Buzeta 10/12/25
• wedding of Stephanie and Matthew 6/27/26
• wedding of Katelyn Haller and Anthony 10/18/26
• wedding of Randy Olivencia 4/26/26

other stuff

• jumping the broom
• wedding blessings
• wedding vows Ashley and Chris, Brian and Janet