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Occasionally I wandered in where I was not wanted and gave truthful answers.
Sometimes I even did it deliberately. A little disruption now can prevent disaster later.

Journal 11Aug2017

I have no higher authority. I have to persuade.
— NeoWayland
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Journal 05May2017

No, these aren't people I know.

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Gateway to summer

While these won't be necessarily pagan, they help show that life doesn't need clothing.

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Today's really twenty-nine

Thinking by blogging

This week I got back into my discipline.

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Clean

It's the last bright moon before Summergate, the Lady Moon is entering the Court of Stars and I am ready.

For what I am not sure.

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Winter begins

I've not been handling people very well this season. I'm glad that winter is finally beginning.

Wintergate is my three day
WebTree High Holiday that marks the gateway between autumn and winter. The middle day (tomorrow) of the holiday is the cross quarter day or midpoint between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice.

Wintergate also marks my semi-annual
Hair ot the Bear. I did it myself yesterday this year. This autumn made me prickly, I've been trying not to take it out on the people around me that I care about. That includes my companions, bless their hearts. Well, my mood should start improving in a couple of days. Then I owe them both big time.

So it's with shorter hair and hot chocolate that I anticipate this High Holiday. Solar Festivals last from dawn to dawn, but High Holidays last from sunset to sunset. I still have a few hours to prepare.

And that means I need to put this entry up.

Bright & Dark Blessings, everyone.

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No significance

I spent WAY too much time yesterday on this site

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Daily

Since I don't have much time this week, I thought talk about the daily things we sometimes overlook.

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Welcome to summer

As my regular readers know, I don't celebrate Baltaine as such. I celebrate Summergate, a three day High Holiday that starts on sunset Tuesday. The cross-quarter day is on May 4th this year.

However, at the end of April and the end of October every year, I host small dinner parties. The highlight of these parties is the
Hair of the Bear, my semi-annual haircut. I'm reserved in public, and this is one of my chances to let loose a little bit.

This year it's a bit cooler than I like. And we had scattered rainstorms, so the party was inside. Then the heat pump blower quit (on a Saturday), I built a fire in the fireplace (fire GOOD grunts Neo).

I wasn't in charge of the menu, it was a potluck of everyone's favorite summer dishes. Somebody brought catfish grilled in cornmeal. When it's done right, that's one of the most delicious things ever.

I don't think the ladies quite got the full three inches, but I can live with it. My hair is short for summer.


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Just before it sparks

Eggnog French toast

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Fireplace

I joke about it, but that is the heart of it. Or maybe the hearth. It’s the center.

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Starwell - Solar Festival

I think that a Greater Pagan Community™ for the sake of the institution is a extraordinarily Bad Idea®.
— NeoWayland
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Winter

Bone, Heart, Thought, Deed, and Spirit, I choose to honor these people this season

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Double Teamed

Rain in the desert is a wonderous thing

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Autumn

Feeding my tool and pattern obsessions

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Lughnasadh

I think too many people are into religion for the politics.

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Twenty-seven

Dad had hidden talents that would pop up every once in a while.

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Shapes in the Moon

This one’s a lusty lass, and not just because she’s nude and very pregnant.

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Summergate

Inspire, don’t require.
     — NeoWayland
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Convergence

Could it be the biology?

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Spark

“Do you believe, you believe in magic, 'cos I believe, I believe that I do”

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Not Samhain

“Taproots”

Where ever it may lead

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Just like clockwork

Fundamental principles

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What's in a name?

Spring Rites

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A sun worshiper welcomes summer

"all of that sunshine,
all of that sweet golden sunshine,
that thrills me and fills me and…"

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Pangere

Rambling on time & calendars

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