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This might seem like an unusual subject for devotion, but it is part of daily life! The city I live in uses a three-bin system: recycling, compost, and landfill. Each bin has a list of exactly and only those items which should go into it—even the landfill bin has items which are not acceptable. This […]
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This post is part of my Small Devotions series—small moments and small actions that are touchpoints throughout my day, which arose gradually and without a lot of planning or intent on my part, and which serve as reminders to stop and take a minute to get out of my head and restore some perspective to […]
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This month’s Community Altar features Persephone, in honor of the Vernal Equinox here in the Northern Hemisphere. [Image description: An altar with several lit candles, a bunch of white flowers, and two images of the Goddess Persephone.] The image on the left is by Ellen Lorenzi-Prince, the Liberation card from her Dark Goddess Tarot. [Image […]
Filed Under Devotions | Comments Off on Unboxing: A New Devotional Blank Book and Cover
My prior devotional book is wonderful to look at, with a tooled leather cover, and a nice piece of bloodstone on the front: But the paper is not equally wonderful. It does alright with a ballpoint pen, but it doesn’t work at all with fountain pens (my preferred writing tool) or calligraphy markers (for my […]
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I am pleased that eating cake is not only gratifying, it is also an act which honors the ancestors. And now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to honor my ancestors. (This is today’s Candorville comic, by artist Darrin Bell.) [Image description: A four-panel comic, featuring a woman and a man leaning forward against a […]