Pagan Community Notes: Week of May 23, 2022
In this week's Pagan Community Notes: Mankiller quarter released UNHCR statement, Crossings of the Veil, and more news. Continue reading Pagan Community Notes: Week of May 23, 2022 at The Wild Hunt.
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Not Really Dudley Do-Right—Canadian Mounties as a National Symbol
A Northwest Canadian Mounted Police Constable in 1876. On May 23, 1873 acting on the advice of Canadian Prime Minister John A. Macdonald Queen Victoria g
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Mania (All-Consuming Love)
Mania describes a kind of love that is entirely focused on the present moment, on passion or care or the euphoria of new love. When it goes on too long, it is not healthy, but it is natural to sometim
Meditations
Like a House on Fire: Thinking of the mad friar Savonarola
It was today, the 23rd of May, in 1498, that the Dominican Friar Girolamo Savonarola was burned at the stake in Florence. He may be a bit better remembered for the falò delle vanità, the “Bonfire
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deliberate practice
My readers will find this article from Forbes to be interesting, and perhaps this quote also from Louis Pasteur, leading it, "that chance favors the prepared mind." https://www.forbes.com/sites/david
The Great Flower Communion Tailgate Party
Join us for our first ever indoor/outdoor service. We'll begin in the Sanctuary with our end-of-year celebrations, acknowledging our volunteers and this year's class of high school seniors. Then, the
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Weekly Bread #171
I was in the Sierras last week so skipped writing that week of “Weekly” bread. It was a great trip, we took a hike on every one of the seven days we were there. No really long ones, mainly just 5-6 mi
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Recalling Harvey Milk: And the Long Winding Road to Justice
American politician, San Francisco City Supervisor, and civil rights activist, Harvey Milk was born on this day, the 22nd of May, in 1930. I note this nearly every year. It’s important. In a m
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First Atlantic Crossing With Steam Power—Glorious but Futile
The S,S, Savannah coming into port under steam power in 1819. To get a handle on the audacityof the designers and owners of the SS Savannah , the first ship equipped with steam powerto cross the Atlan
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Happy World Goth Day
On World Goth Day, Goths and adjacent folks celebrate who and what we are. We find beauty and meaning in what others find bizarre and disturbing. And we remember that sometimes, if they’re determined
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Compassion
Compassion for ourselves is a key component of our mental health. It is too easy to fall into a cycle of self-criticism and perfectionism. It is important to learn to forgive ourselves, to treat ourse
Meditations
Toumey oak in progress / almost done
I don’t want to stop spending time with this leaf, so I’ll continue tomorrow. May 22: Here’s today’s progress. It’s pretty much done, but I want to get some distance–literally and figuratively–and tom
drawings A leaf a day
September, 2006
At my wife's suggestion in 2006, I launched the Wisdom of the Hands blog with this blog post: Independent schools like Clear Spring serve an important role in education. https://wisdomofhands.blogsp
Column: Becoming the Queer Ancestors
I call the queer ancestors the Rainbow Dead. This term specifies their special place in our collective histories as well as in our spiritual practices. Ancestors need not be of our blood in order to b
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New York City Built a Temple Monument to Books
The grand and glorious New York Public Library in a hand-tinted linen post card from the early 1930's . There may be taller buildings. There may even be more beautiful buildings. There are certainly
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10 resources for very small churches
Derek Parker, a friend and minister, responded to my request for what I might write for this blog. This is a list I drew up over lunch, in no particular order. What would you add? Training manuals and
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Spiritual power beyond the known self — on the grace displayed by an unsecured (or secured) door
A short “ thought for the day” offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation (Click on this link to hear a recorded version of the following piece)
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Ableism
Learning to love myself fully means learning to love my body, even with its limitations. It means overcoming the internalized messages of ableism taught to me over and over by a society that values “p
Meditations
Field trip
We went for a hike in Henry W. Coe State Park today. There were still quite a few flowers in bloom, of which my favorite was the Butterfly Mariposa Lily: The terrain was the usual steep hillsides of t
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