Today I saw yet another post on Tumblr with a link to a site with “Free PDFs of Witchy Books!”, which had over 93,000 notes (likes and reblogs, for those not familiar with Tumblr speak). Many of the books on this list are still in print, and the publishers are fairly vigorous about enforcing copyright […]
“Stories like yours and worse than yours are all around, and your suffering won’t mark you out as special, though your response to it might.” —Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby Your brokenness does not make you special. Your brokenness is something that happened to you, but it is not the only thing that determines who […]
A couple of years ago, I wrote this post about judgment and compassion, because I was engaging in some painful and destructive behaviors around judging other people that had serious negative effects on me and everyone around me. I needed to find ways to channel the time and energy taken by those thoughts into more […]
Many years ago, I was part of a volunteer group working on a project. We were making little progress, and what progress we’d been able to make had been painfully slow. I introduced an idea which would jump us forward significantly, but it required everyone to get over themselves and do the work. One of […]
Welcome to the second day of Fimbulvetr. Today’s weather report is from Nat King Cole, providing a lighter take on the eerie empyrean event which continues today.
