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Weather Check
I don’t know about Helena, but Great Falls, about 90 miles north, has put out a nice summary of this winter’s weather conditions (thanks PrairieMary!):
“Cloudy days: 12/1 to 2/21, normally we have 55 and this year we had 21. I don’t believe it.
Clear days: normally 14 but this year 33. The rest were mixed. Hmmmph.
SNOW:
October: 6.9 inches.
November: none
December: 9.5 inches
January: 30 inches.
Entire snow period: usual average 37 inches; this winter 49.4 so far, last year 57.6.
FOG: average 4 days; this winter 12 so far; last year none. The constant fog caused remarkable hoarfrost that became so heavy it… Read more »
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Tŷ Ddewi
Pentre Ifan
Tŷ Ddewi (St Davids), as cathedral cities go, is more like a large village than anything you’d expect of such a place. It sits on a headland at the end of the northern peninsula of St Bride’s Bay (with the village of St Brides at the end of the southern peninsula). So Bride, or Brigid, is equally celebrated in the naming of places in this land- and sea-scape. Co-incidentally, further north up the coast in Ceredigion, there is a village called Llannon, suggesting that it contains a church dedicated to Non (who was David’s mother). But the name of… Read more »
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Gift culture
This is the point I was trying to get too with the last videos of Rojo, I had never heard of this work before it really fills in the blanks! Wonderful!
I believe gift culture may very well be the only way we as animists can interact… its integral to animism in so many ways!
this is the first video in a series found here…
http://www.youtube.com/user/CharlesEisenstein#p/u
Here is also a nice talk about the subject…
http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/gift-economics.php
Originally posted on reality sandwitch
This article is a adapted from the introduction to the upcoming book Sacred Economics. The purpose of the book is to make money and human economy as sacred as… Read more »
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PIE
Here is a really fun site on Proto-indo-european peoples…
I just find this all so fascinating.
I hope you do as well!
http://www.ceisiwrserith.com/pier/whatwasideology.htm
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Charlie Speaks for the Love God
This is my cartoon character Charlie. The real Charlie doesn’t have a human body, but the image helps me know him better somehow, as images of deities have helped humans since the first drawing was painted on a cave wall.
For those familiar with the Charlie cartoon, you might notice that he’s loosened his tie even further and is starting to show his toughness. When I was drawing this picture, Charlie was talking, and he said:
You humans think the Love God is some kind of a skinny runt, a wussy among the gods, like the meek, white-bread Jesus with little children… Read more »
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Confucius: Key to Happiness and Peace
The illustrious ancients, when they wished to make clear and to propagate the highest virtues in the world, put their states in proper order.
Before putting their states in proper order, they regulated their families.
Before regulating their families, they cultivated their own selves.
Before cultivating their own selves, they perfected their souls.
Before perfecting their souls, they tried to be sincere in their thoughts.
Before trying to be sincere in their thoughts, they extended to the utmost their knowledge.
Such investigation of knowledge lay in the investigation of things, and in seeing them as they really were.
When things were… Read more »
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Confucius: Key to Happiness and Peace
The illustrious ancients, when they wished to make clear and to propagate the highest virtues in the world, put their states in proper order.
Before putting their states in proper order, they regulated their families.
Before regulating their families, they cultivated their own selves.
Before cultivating their own selves, they perfected their souls.
Before perfecting their souls, they tried to be sincere in their thoughts.
Before trying to be sincere in their thoughts, they extended to the utmost their knowledge.
Such investigation of knowledge lay in the investigation of things, and in seeing them as they really were.
When things were… Read more »
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Three-Minute Fiction: “Things Were Going to be Okay”
My entry in this round of NPR’s Three Minute Fiction. You look at the photo they supply, than write a short story that can be read in three minutes or less, under 600 words. This is this week’s photo, and my story is underneath. It’s a nice little exercise to keep your “story-muscles” strong.
Better get a move on. The sun would be up soon. Early bird gets the worm. He adjusted his socks, which were cutting into his ankles. He stood up, but left the paper for the next guy. Shoot, whoever it is might even be in a spot… Read more »
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