A Home Blessing
Sigil and Ritual Blessing a home begins with gratitude. Gratitude for what we have. A roof. Some walls. A bed. Whatever food is in the...
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- Mar 11
Why Crowdfund?
On Gratitude and Leveling the Playing Field A group of people gather on an assortment of chairs in a living room. A cellist tunes her...
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- Feb 25
TO PRAISE A POET
IN MEMORY OF NTOZAKE SHANGE poetry is unavoidable connection/ some people get married/ others join the Church i carry notebooks/ so i can...
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- Dec 31, 2022
To Manifest What We desire
Some Magic for the Coming Year Seven Steps to manifest what you desire in the coming year: First: what is your current dominant emotional...
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- Oct 29, 2022
Stories Keep Communities Alive
“Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it’s then, its continuing...
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- Aug 13, 2022
Sigils For a Waiting World Part Two
Perseverance Over the course of the next few months, I’ll be sending out sigils to help us navigate these times. These sigils can be used...
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- Aug 6, 2022
On Lightening Up
And Listening to Wasps and Bees I periodically pause, tune in, and pull a rune to ponder. Off and on lately, I’ve been getting Ansuz. It...
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- Jul 9, 2022
Marley's Hot on the Box
On Art, Joy, and Rebellion I was singing Stevie Wonder’s Master Blaster yesterday, and a friend said, “I haven’t thought about that song...
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- Jun 18, 2022
A Walk in Soft June Rain
In the midst of the hustle, and the worry, and the pain, how often do you pause to breathe and feel moisture on your skin?
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- Jun 4, 2022
Corn Chips Give Me Brain fog
And Why I Wear a Mask Part One: I have a chronic illness. Thankfully, it's under control, or mostly, at any rate. It went undiagnosed for...
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- May 28, 2022
Stories Matter
"Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it." — Lloyd Alexander As a child, I was a voracious reader. Still...
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- Feb 19, 2022
Crows and Other Gifts
On Making Connections in a Hurried World This is a meditation on gifts and the web of interaction that keeps us all connected in this...
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- Jan 30, 2022
Stephen King is Wrong
and so are some of my friends “…when books are run out of school classrooms and even out of school libraries as a result of this idea,...
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- Nov 20, 2021
Omelas Is Here: On Kyle Rittenhouse, White Supremacy, and Us
“It was not then a question of crime, but rather one of color, that settled a man’s conviction on almost any charge.” — W. E. B. Dubois...
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- Oct 23, 2021
Decisive Details:
on communicating what matters Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson once wrote: “What the eye does is to find and focus on the particular...
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- Sep 11, 2021
The Long Haul
on life in a rolling disaster Writing mentor and friend Kristine Kathryn Rusch wrote a recent Patreon blog about the need for creative...
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- Jul 24, 2021
Creative Generosity
Art, Generosity, and Life Art is not a competition. Art enriches us all. Life is not a competition, either. I’ve been working my way...
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- Jun 26, 2021
Who Benefits?
On Commerce, Politics, and Art Part One: Politics (from Greek: Πολιτικά, politiká, ‘affairs of the cities’) is the set of activities that...
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- May 8, 2021
Who You Are: On Honesty, Process, and Life
Who are you, right now? What is your life like? What do you want, need, and desire? “Don’t compare your insides with someone else’s...
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