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Budget for True Pagan Warrior

• Real money magic
  • 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 air Done

• • Money is fire Done

• • 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
• 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

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

• Paganomicon 2025: Rising tides, troubled waters Done

• Harvest Gathering 2026: Real money magic
• Harvest Gathering 2026: Sacred on the spectrum
• Harvest Gathering 2026: Quaker worship for pagans
• Harvest Gathering 2026: Discordian ritual
• Harvest Gathering 2026: Not your ancestors' ocean god
• Harvest Gathering 2026: Moosemas after dark Done

• Harvest Gathering 2026: Depression, the ancestral gift
• LlewellynCon 2026: the magical cost of depression Done

grimoire

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

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

Budget for New Paltz Monthly Meeting

New Paltz monthly meeting

• QD: worshiping with eyes open or shut
• Lois Pomeroy Done

• 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 20260215 Done

• NPMM minutes 20260315 Done

• state of society thoughts 2026
• NPMM minutes 20260419 Done

• NPMM minutes 20260621

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
• respect the flag by not displaying it poorly
• Phillies Bridge endowment committee
• Ward finances 2021
• Ministry report 2022

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

medium

• deadlines: why they matter even without print
• third person: it creates the necessary journalistic distance
• The
• in praise of editors
• words mean things and have power and that power can be misused such as "literally"
• in praise of standard language and the importance of dialect and jargon
• title case: why it should be eliminated
• try to
• motion v move a vote
• incidents v incidence
• when the grammatical is the enemy of the good, like using "so" and otherwise starting sentences with conjunctions
• 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

budget for Hudson Valley One

and

• ADA and sandwich signs expand to a complaint-only building department including trash and snow removal
• New Paltz Way Not done

• Police polygraph tests

26

• due June 28: NP emergency services 2026 Done

• due June 28: Peace Park time capsule 2026 Done

• due June 28: NP graduation 2026

27

• due July 5: NP VB 20260702
• due July 5: NP TB 20260703

THC

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