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Budget for True Pagan Warrior

• Flag blessing Done

• Wikipedia for Pagans: wikiprojects Done

• • list of WfP posts
  • Wikipedia for pagans: editing articles Done

• • Wikipedia for pagans: using talk pages Done

• • Wikipedia for pagans: notability
  • Wikipedia for pagans: verifiability is not truth
  • Wikipedia for pagans: finding reliable sources
  • Wikipedia for pagans: articles for deletion
  • Wikipedia for pagans: building consensus
  • Wikipedia for pagans: countering pagan bias
  • Wikipedia for pagans: nothing ever disappears
  • 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
• business meeting as sacred ritual
• Race war - the dream with the cops and the demo derby and knowing it was racial but only seeing white people and what that might say about me
• Suicide is not a solitary choice
• 988 Not done

• Remembering Carrie, that sweet old lady at St Lawrence Psychiatric Center
• Emotions are not thoughts
• Hades is Poseidon Done

• Paganism, depression, silence Done

• Zeus is Hades Done

• 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
  • 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"
  • 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

Patheos Pagan

• Modern Witchcraft with the Greek Gods Done

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

Workshops

• Witchsfest 2024: Unchaining your money familiar

Budget for Panthea

• Heroes and ancestors ritual to offer as programming in 2021
• Ancestor fire ritual 2022 Done

• Quaker worship for pagans Done

• fart ritual Done

• Ancestor shrine opening ritual 202310 Done

• Ancestor ritual 202310
• Panthea workshop proposals 2023
• Greater Goosenalia
• Panthea workshop proposals 2024

Quakers

Spark

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

monthly meeting

• M&C letter re: minute of travel Done

• announcements 20230813 Done

• NPMM minutes 20230820 Done

• NPMM minutes 20230917 Done

• NPMM minutes 20231119 Done

• NPMM minutes 20231217 Done

• NPMM minutes 20230218 Done

• NPMM minutes 20240317
• state of society report 2024
• NPMM minutes 20240421
• NPMM minutes 20240715

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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
• respect the flag by not displaying it poorly
• Ward finances 2022 Not done

• Ministry report 2022 Done

• depression journal
• Peanut Quarterly style guide
• Dear Sheila
• Dear Beren about family trauma
• Ward finances 2024
• Mental health records request Done

• Robb writing
• Slow Magic blurb

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

medium

• in praise of public editors
• third person: it creates the necessary journalistic distance
• The
• words mean things and have power and that power can be misused such as "literally"
• in praise of standard language Done

• title case: why it should be eliminated
• 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"
• here's how you can refer to twitter
• "I spoke with my colleague" is not journalism
• AP call on Iowa causes 2024 Done

• On dialing back how journalists use gender
• Are journalists already relying on AI too much? including expecting phones to correct spelling and grammar instead of editors

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budget for Hudson Valley One

and

• Herbal Confectionary Not done

• looking ahead NP 2025

25

• due Jun 16: NP VB 20240612 Not done

• due Jun 16: Pine Island Kush Done

26

• due Jun 23: NP TB 20240620
• due Jun 23: Amanda Gotto profile 2024

27

• due Jun 30: NP graduation 2024

THC

• cherry berry crush gummies

• peanut butter delight

Budget for Llewellyn Worldwide

• money book
• money deck
  • money book and deck pitch
• Hades: Myth, Magic, and Modern Devotion

CoSE work

• ministry report 2023 Done

• ministry report 2024 check by-laws for requirements
• bylaws proposal 2024

wedding prospects

• Wedding of Emilia Russo and Jay Gundacker Done

• Wedding of Gorme and Xiomara 10/28/23 Not done

• Wedding of Catherine Koutsavlis 9/7/24
• Wedding of Gina Bruni and Paul Wilson 9/28/24
• Wedding of Melissa Banasiak and Patrick Rowan