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Budget for True Pagan Warrior

• Flag retirement
• Flag blessing
• Wikipedia for Pagans: wikiprojects
  • list of WfP posts
  • Wikipedia for pagans: editing articles
  • Wikipedia for pagans: using talk pages
  • 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
  • make a page for these
• depression book promotion
• Technicolor paganism
• 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: compounding
• resacralizing profanity
• respect your parents (maxim): things I finally follow their advice on, from writing thank-you notes to drinking coffee black
• 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
• paper route
• Suicide is not a solitary choice
• identifying herbs with an app or a teacher
• 988
• Remembering Carrie, that sweet old lady at St Lawrence Psychiatric Center
• Emotions are not thoughts

Patheos Pagan

• Magic for Troubled Times

Budget for Panthea

• Heroes and ancestors ritual to offer as programming in 2021
• Great Pumpkin ritual

Budget for New Paltz Monthly Meeting

Spark

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

monthly meeting

• Sandy Rand memorial minute
• announcements 20220515 Done

• agenda 20220619
• Sonny Meng memorial minute
• announcements 20220522 Done

• letter to Nina Smiley
• announcements 20220529 Done

• announcements 20220605
• announcements 20220612
• announcements 20220619
• agenda 20220821
• announcements 20220703

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

• in praise of public editors
• deadlines: why they matter even without print
• 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 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
• punctuation doesn't need to be spoken because it's pronounced (quote unquote, parenthetically, dot dot dot, uptalk)

Budget for Hudson Valley One

25

• due Jun 19: NP TB 20220616 Done

• due Jun 19: Senior citizen group move The New Paltz & Gardiner Seniors are moving their meetings from the VFW to the New Paltz Community Center. Interview the group's president Phyllis Maier at (845) 255-6878.

26

• due Jun 26: NP VB 20220622

27

• due July 3: NPT PB 20220627

28

• due July 10: NP VB 20220705
• due July 10: NP TV 20220707

Budget for Llewellyn Worldwide

• Magic for Troubled Times Done

• Modern Witchcraft with the Greek Gods

Fnordtronics

• app promotion idea links