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

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

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

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