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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

- 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

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

Quakers

Spark

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

Ministry

Stone Mountain (see Quaker intro for Pagans and Quaker worship for pagans)

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

Robb writing Done

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

medium

in praise of public editors
third person 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

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"
"I spoke with my colleague" is not journalism
On dialing back how journalists use gender
Are journalists already relying on AI too much? Done

report stock percentages, not point changes
polling is not news
in praise of word pairings that make sense 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?

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 is open. A 28-room boutique hotel with nature-focused amenities along the Wallkill River. 845-419-1117, info@newpaltzway.com. They are offering tours.
Police polygraph tests