I've been reading Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels over the past few weeks. It's fun, dense, and filled with really cool stories (but, at least in the ebook, not enough pictures). While reading, I have been looking up terms like safety bicycle and some of the people named, particularly the American … Continue reading 🚲 The Gods Are Always Found 🚲
Tag: modern practice
Word Searches & Postcards
I have created a few things that I am actually selling on the Internet. Devotional Word Searches: Do you want an alternative activity to make available to ritual participants who don’t do meditation? Would you like to mix it up at your home shrine a bit? I made single-page (and a few double-page) word searches … Continue reading Word Searches & Postcards
On Religious Jewelry in 2025
I started wearing a pentacle again earlier this year. Not always, and not at work. Sometimes, often when running weekend errands, or during work from home days when I know I’ll be at the laundromat during my breaks. It was both a decision and not a decision. Last year, I bought a stainless steel Hestia … Continue reading On Religious Jewelry in 2025
Committing Effort
In early June, I was taking my luggage out to pack for conference travel when I found a fanny pack that I’d bought a few years ago. Packs worn around the waist are more ergonomic, and I had bought it to wear before learning about the massive fibroid in my lower abdomen that was making … Continue reading Committing Effort
Reflecting on Ultra-Polarization and Personal Limits
Several months and blog posts ago, I said that I wanted to avoid most of the partisan discussions here in favor of moving on with what I actually want to talk about. That was my best-effort attempt at the time to articulate the amount of overwhelm I was feeling about the United States' current events, … Continue reading Reflecting on Ultra-Polarization and Personal Limits
Resting in a Pronoia Practice
I want my blog to be a refuge of rest, insofar as is possible, away from what is currently happening in the United States. First off, nobody can be “on” 100% of the time without burning out, and there are plenty of other avenues where people can find and use excellent information compiled by those … Continue reading Resting in a Pronoia Practice
For Hygieia, with Love, On Meditation as Hygiene
I started meditating when I was in my early teens. I checked out all of the books from the library on it, which seems impressive on paper until I give you the context that there were at most four or five books in the entire collection. Meditation for Dummies was one of my favorites because … Continue reading For Hygieia, with Love, On Meditation as Hygiene
A Few Passages for August
Here are a few passages that I've been thinking about as of late, and I thought I would share them just in case they are also interesting to some of you. Phaedo, 62b, trans. Brann, Kalkavage, & Salem: “For it would seem,” said Socrates, “to be unaccountable if put this way. And yet just maybe … Continue reading A Few Passages for August
Conversions Away from the Gods
When I was in college, one of the women in my social group called herself pagan, but she would not come to the events that the campus pagan group — which I ran for a few years — organized. She was adopted, she went to Catholic school, and she was raised by a traditional WASP … Continue reading Conversions Away from the Gods
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