I had a stupendous time at Paganicon 2011, the most firstest Paganicon evar! I enjoyed it more than I expected--and I expected to enjoy it a lot.

( Friday )

I want to wrap up International Pagan Values Blogging Month with a consideration of my personal Pagan values. As I mentioned before, I struggled to differentiate my "Pagan values" from, say, my "Midwest values" or my "big gay values." But when I asked myself upon what values I base my practices and beliefs - what values of Paganism (real or ( Read more... )

I resolved to write a "real" post on Pagan Values for Pagan Values Blogging Month, but it got complicated. I couldn't think of a value that was exclusively Pagan. I could barely think of one that was intrinsically Pagan. What values of mine would I attribute solely (or even primarily) to my Paganism, and not to other factors in my life and ( Read more... )

I hear-tell that June is " International Pagan Values Blogging Month." Part of me is all about this. ( And part of me is counting the ways it could go hideously awry. )

We're back, y'all, safe and sound and spiritually re-oomphed.

Seems my pants made too much money while I was gone, and now they need to be bankrupted. Besides the birthday parties of viajes and discoflamingo,* what did I miss?

*I'm almost glad I had to miss these, since they were on the same night, and I would've had to choose between them, and I would've been ( Read more... )

Hello there. leorathesane and I leave first thing tomorrow for Winter Witchcamp. We will be sans phone and Interwebs while there. We return on Monday the 16th; pants will need to be bankrupted, blah blah socialnetworkingcakes.

Please, people, don't do anything interesting while I'm gone (I'm lookin' mostly at you, gnomi).

Really, really excellent news for anyone who'd been following this story, or who's been to Coldwater, or who just gives a crap what happens to natural and historical landmarks in Minnesota: "National Park Service to restore land near Fort Snelling". Thanks to leorathesane for the heads-up!

Also...

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Yesterday, my shiny new issue of North American Windpower arrived in my mailbox. I'd forgotten about it, because I requested the subscription what feels like a very long time ago. But it's big, and it's very cool-looking, and it's all mine.

As if that weren't enough, I also received a letter from Reclaiming Quarterly, telling me that they're going ( Read more... )

After much discussion and debate, Twin Cities Reclaiming decided that we wanted to continue Ethel Mé in some form this year, and Saturday was the first session of the new Ethel Mé year ( which reminds me that I never did a write-up for the last session of the first year )

Our last class was yesterday. Only...not really.

Full report later. For now, I'll just say, wow. What a year. And now we're done. But only sort of.

It's hard to feel like you've achieved any sort of resolution when the thing isn't actually finished.