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Budget for True Pagan Warrior
- oaths
Done
- oaths
- oracles
Done
- oracles
- possession
Done
- possession
- Real money magic
- Poseidon is Santa
- Elements and money (for money book promotion)
- Discordian tales
- the prodigal hot dog
Done
- the prodigal hot dog
- in the beginning
Done
- in the beginning
- 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
- 10 magical money tips
Patheos Pagan
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
- Harvest Gathering 2026: Real money magic (category) HG
- Harvest Gathering 2026: Neurodivergent paganism discussion group
- Paganomicon 2025: Rising tides, troubled waters
- Paganomicon 2025: Depression, the ancestral gift
- Harvest Gathering 2026: Quaker worship for pagans HG
- Harvest Gathering 2026: Autism in paganism
- Harvest Gathering 2026: Discordian ritual
- Harvest Gathering 2026: [[Not your ancestors' ocean god
GET YOU BIO DESCRIPTIONS AND PICTURES TO DILLEN AND CONFIRM SLEEPING ARRANGEMENTS BY 5/30
Panthea
- Heroes and ancestors ritual to offer as programming in 2021
- Quaker worship for pagans
Done
- Panthea workshop proposals 2023
- Greater Goosenalia
- Panthea workshop proposals 2024
- Ancestor rituals 2025 opening-fire-main-close
- Panthea 2026 letter draft
CoSE work
- bylaws proposal 2024
Not done
- ministry report 2025
Done
Quakers
Spark
New Paltz monthly meeting
- QD: worshiping with eyes open or shut
- Lois Pomeroy
- Vivi Hlavsa
- QD: greeting silently or aloud
- QD: silence vs stillness
Done
- 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?
- 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
Done
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
- depression journal
- Peanut Quarterly style guide
- Dear Sheila
- Dear Beren
Done
- Ward finances 2024
Not done
- Robb writing
Done
- Ward finances 2025
- Jade swimming lessons
Partly done
- Robb memoir
Done
- Ward holiday letter 2025 maybe make it a horror novel; definitely include weight loss and autism
- Poems for my children
- Dear Robin lay out meanings of tattooed sigils
substack
- 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
- stock percentages
- shareholder resolutions
medium
- 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
budget for Hudson Valley One
and
50
- due Dec 14: New Paltz write-in report 2025
Done
51
- due Dec 21: TPW's best of 2025
Done
- due Dec 21: Looking ahead NP person on the street 2026
Done
- due Dec 21: Looking ahead NPT 2026
Done
1
- due Jan. 4: Green Goat Cannabis Shoppe
Done
- due Jan. 4: With Mayor Tim Rogers stepping into his newly elected position as supervisor, the board of trustees are tasked with filling that vacancy and finding a mayor. Interested residents are asked to submit a resume, or similar document outlining any relevant professional experiences by Friday, January 23. Contact Alex Wojcik at awojcik@villageofnewpaltz.gov
2
- due Jan 11: NP TB 20260108
3
- due Jan 18: NP Partners in Preservation 2025
- due Jan 18: ADA and shoveling sidewalks
5
- due Feb. 3: NP joint TB/VB 20260128
- due Feb. 3: Wintersun Sauna
THC
Budget for Llewellyn Worldwide
- grammar magic book compile various grammar pages and give it a cauldron title and a book ideas category
- Pagan Curiouser
wedding prospects
- wedding of Brian and Janet 10/11/25
- wedding of Ashley Gaston and Chris Buzeta 10/12/25
- wedding of Randy Olivencia 4/26/26
- wedding of Stephanie and Matthew 6/27/26
- wedding of Katelyn Haller and Anthony 10/18/26
other stuff
- jumping the broom
- wedding blessings
- wedding vows Ashley and Chris, Brian and Janet