I have some writing updates that I would like to share with you all. I have decided to add both The Village of Strong Branches and A Matter of Oracles to Gumroad if you want an epub or PDF. They're bundled together. Also, several posts have gone up on my writing Substack. If you are … Continue reading Fiction Novellas Added to Gumroad
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Welcoming Standard Time
Last summer, I wrote that one of my cats had decided to join me when I did the morning sun prayer at the window. Over the next few months, as my bonded pair matured, the other one replaced her at the window. On most days, she will run from wherever she is in the apartment … Continue reading Welcoming Standard Time
Some Post-Surgery Reflections
It must have been 2019, as that was the year I started doing really deep meditations for Apollon during my daily ritual. Sometimes, I wonder if it was earlier, in 2018 — but we will go with 2019. During the meditation, I was doing a brief body scan, the kind that one is taught to do … Continue reading Some Post-Surgery Reflections
Playlists as Prayers
I've spent the past week listening to several songs from Ancient Mother, an album from 1993. We played several of the pieces from that album a lot when I was young. I love both the title song ("Ancient Mother") and "The Circle Is Cast," in addition to "Lady of the Flowing Waters." Playing the songs … Continue reading Playlists as Prayers
Lunar Yin Yoga and Other Wind-Downs
At the beginning of September, I started to commit more to dialing myself down after work. One thing that I've done is to de-stress a few evenings each week with yin yoga. In the early-ish/mid-2010s, when I lived in my last apartment and was physically closer to a real yoga studio, one class that I … Continue reading Lunar Yin Yoga and Other Wind-Downs
A MATTER OF ORACLES Comes Out on October 9
A long time ago, I was listening to a SHWEP episode that was discussing the fraught relationship between various kinds of divination and astrology and the Roman state. The episode filled me with conflicted glee because it aired a while after I had written the first few drafts of A Matter of Oracles, which is … Continue reading A MATTER OF ORACLES Comes Out on October 9
Some Interesting Links for Your September
One of the self-care things I did for a small chunk of August was slowly reading a treatise or several in Plotinus' Enneads. I've read the Enneads less systematically than one might expect, as I tended to tackle the treatises as they came up in footnotes while doing my first read-through of Proclus. It was … Continue reading Some Interesting Links for Your September
Seasons
This is the final weekend before things start to get hectic at work — earlier than is typical in August. The next month and change involve a lot of reshuffled days to meet with search candidates, onboarding workshops, and networking events as my job moves from quiescence into the hyperactivity of Fall Mode. This morning, … Continue reading Seasons
Five Beautiful Things
“Praise to the Melodious Wisdom Goddess Saraswati, Called ‘The Melody of the Youthful Display of Joy,’ by Kunkhyen Longchenpa in Sunlight Speech That Dispels the Darkness of Doubt: Sublime Prayers, Praises, and Practices of the Nyingma Masters, translated by Thinley Norbu. I was struck by the beauty of the words and the single-pointed focus of … Continue reading Five Beautiful Things
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