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Budget for True Pagan Warrior

• Pagan Blog Project ideas
  • oracles Done

• • possession Done

• Real money magic
  • Real money magic: compounding Done

• • Real money magic: coin flips Done

• • Real money magic: coins honor our heroes Done

• • Real money magic: changing the world Done

• resacralizing profanity Done

• 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 earth Done

• • 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 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

Money book promotion

• Elements and money Done

• • Money is earth Done

• • Money is air
  • 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

• LlewellynCon 2025: Unchaining your money familiar Not done

• LlewellynCon 2025: If you thought justice was blind, let's talk about money (Ploutos and animism) Not done

• Paganomicon 2025: Rising tides, troubled waters Done

• Paganomicon 2025: Depression, the ancestral gift
• Harvest Gathering 2026: Real money magic (category) HG
• Harvest Gathering 2026: Sacred on the spectrum
• Harvest Gathering 2026: Quaker worship for pagans HG
• Harvest Gathering 2026: Discordian ritual
• Harvest Gathering 2026: Not your ancestors' ocean god
• Harvest Gathering 2026: Moosemas after dark

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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

• ministry report 2025 Done

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

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Pagan Solidarity

• PS messaging 20250308 Done

• PS plenary 20250310 Not done

• PS messaging minutes 20250316

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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
• QD: greeting silently or aloud
• 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
• 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 20251221 Done

• NPMM minutes 20260118 Done

• NPMM minutes 20260215 Done

• NPMM minutes 20260315
• state of society thoughts 2026

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 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
• Robb memoir

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

• 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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budget for Hudson Valley One

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• ADA and sandwich signs

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• due Mar. 1: Free food in New Paltz 2026 Done

10

• due Mar. 8: NP VB 20260304 Done

11

• due Mar 15: Sale of Joe's East West Done

• due Mar 15: NP community singers Done

12

• due Mar 22: NP joint TB/VB 20260318

13

• due Mar 29: NP no kings day 20260328 No Kings Rally in New Paltz will be held on March 28, 1 p.m., at the old firehouse on Plattekill Avenue. Similar rallies are being held in Gardiner and Kingston at various times throughout the day, not to mention across the country and globally. Contact Eve Lewars at 845-551-9099.

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• due Apr. 5: NP VB 20260401
• due Apr. 5: Wally's ice cream opened in NP 2026

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 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 per Heather blend depression and money and point out never presented before

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wedding prospects

• wedding of Anna Van Ness Done

• wedding of Brian and Janet Done

• wedding of Ashley Gaston and Chris Buzeta Done

• wedding of Randy Olivencia 4/26/26
• wedding of Taylor and Jeffry Not done

• wedding of Samantha and Rob 5/23/26
• wedding of Setse and Benjamin 5/30/26
• wedding of Stephanie and Matthew 6/27/26
• wedding of Katelyn Haller and Anthony Not done

• wedding of Raquel and Alex 9/19/26

other stuff

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