Everything started waking up in my part of New England a few weeks ago. There is debris from trees' blossoms on my bike commute every morning and evening, pressed into the asphalt by the several-ton cars as they make their way wherever they are going. One of the things I like the most about being … Continue reading Welcoming Spring
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Sufficient and Rational Living
For the past few months, I have been working myself up to try something new. January 1 and a person’s birthday are the socially conventional times to commit to Big Changes, usually in an abstract way without the scaffolding to follow through. Which leads me to the first post I’ve made about minimalism in a … Continue reading Sufficient and Rational Living
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
Between Chaos and Order
A few weeks ago, I finally had mental energy to allocate to starting a migration out of Spotify, and in the process, I rediscovered Ida Kudo and found her song “Born in the Sun,” which is now in my solar music rotation:“I’m walking on my dancing feet / running down on Worship Street / I’m … Continue reading Between Chaos and Order
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
Mid-June 2025 Reflections
While I mostly celebrated my birthday over the weekend by meeting my mom about an hour and a half away at a nice Ethiopian restaurant — she’d been at an AAUW program in a nearby city that had been scheduled long before this past weekend became a protest weekend — it is, in fact, today. … Continue reading Mid-June 2025 Reflections
A Sunday reset that … should have been obvious
After a really intense few weeks, doing a reset/recharge should have been a lot more obvious than it was.
A Few Updates, A Hymn from Thomas Taylor, and a Quotation
Thargelia begins at sunset on May 3rd for many of us, which marks the holiday for Artemis and Apollon as well as Socrates and Plato’s respective birthdays in the tradition. At the close of an academic year that was … intense? is that the right word for it? … due to looking back at the … Continue reading A Few Updates, A Hymn from Thomas Taylor, and a Quotation
Links for Late January
There are a few things from around the web that I want to draw your attention to. Due to things ramping up at work and me trying to get clarity about my schedule and time (especially work events) over the next few months so I know when I have the energy capacity to do extra … Continue reading Links for Late January
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