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February 2017

February 23, 2017

A New Job, Fatherly Advice, and the Lottery

I didn't forget that a lottery is a tax on people who are bad at...

February 21, 2017

Refracted Mantel Light (Digital Photo, “52 Makeup” Week 7)

One of the keys to creativity is learning to see everyday, ordinary things in a...

February 17, 2017

The Streisand Effect, The Vegan Agenda, And Sending Me To Japan

Hello friends. This week's dose of randomness comes a little late due to your humble...

February 14, 2017

“details” (A Poem, “52 Makeup” Week 6)

Rhythm can be a more subtle form of poetic organization than rhyme. This week's entry...

February 09, 2017

Confused Fathers, Messed Up Lives, And Taking Credit

But we all have messed-up stuff going on in our lives, even the great spiritual...

February 08, 2017

Shadow 1 (Digital Photo, “52 Makeup” Week 5)

Photography sent my father to Vietnam. He was the photographer for his high school newspaper....

February 04, 2017

Emperor Norton, Our Guide For Troubled Times

All that stood in their way was the solitary figure of Norton. A sane man...

February 02, 2017

Groundhog Day and Ikuru

So he does three things: he works to improve himself. He comes to love the...

February 02, 2017

Orwell On Nationalism, Learning to Receive, And The Patheos Pagan Kerfuffle

"Notes on Nationalism" is not just relevant to the resurgence of traditional nationalism we are...

February 01, 2017

Playing With Paint (Acrylic & Watercolor, “52 Makeup” Week 4)

While I'm far from "perfect", whatever I do is as natural as starshine or a...

January 2017

January 29, 2017

Hospitality Is Sacred

The Trump administration's recent acts, leaving refugees and immigrants stranded, are a national disgrace --...

January 27, 2017

Welcome To Tiny Train World

That's part of Tiny Train World: every story is subject to change, with past versions...

January 26, 2017

Random Wednesday: Captain America’s Love of Free Speech, Inauguration Ratings, and Police Homicide

Captain America explicitly takes a stand for free speech over Nazi punching, saying "Don't you...

January 23, 2017

Fighting Evil Doesn’t Make You Good

This notion that it's fine and good to assault people we decide are Nazis is...

January 22, 2017

“Metal and Velvet” (Digital Art, “52 Makeup” Week 3)

This started as such a photo, a few objects from the "Metal and Wire -...

January 18, 2017

Random Wednesday: Leave The Lights On, Hating Yourself, and Cops For Criminal Justice Reform

Today I made the random decision to leave my holiday lights on until Imbolc. (It's...

January 16, 2017

MLK Failed, Make Way For MLK

I want to talk about the socialist who understood the intersectionality of race and class,...

January 16, 2017

“Inconsistent Me” (A Poem – Week 2 of “52 Makeup”)

Two days ago, 70 degrees Today, snow and ice And you insist that I be...

January 12, 2017

Random Wednesday: The Woman in the Moon, The Awfulness of Jeff Sessions, and Mystic Plumbers

Rather than allowing some to only contemplate the infinite and others to only fix drains,...

January 08, 2017

Right Recollection: Beyond Mindfulness in the New Year

Mindfulness is big these days. While that's not awful -- maybe a focused corporate raider...

January 08, 2017

“This Present Moment Sucks” (A Song – Week 1 of “52 Makeup”)

And that sounded pretty good when you meditated But when you're blissing out, you never...

January 05, 2017

Random Wednesday: Maternal Homecoming, Productivity in the New Year, and Unraveling “Russian Hackers”

Everybody loves Russian hackers these days. Democrats get to blame them for Clinton's embarrassing loss...

January 01, 2017

Congratulations! You survived 2016

So celebrate your good fortune. And may you have all the gods you need.

December 2016

December 29, 2016

Random Wednesday: Solstice Candles, Family Dinners, and 52 Weeks of Creativity

Welcome to the last Random Wednesday of the year. Farewell 2016, don't let the door...

December 29, 2016

The End of Experts or the End of Courtiers?

But in many instances what is being rejected is not actually expert opinion but the...

December 21, 2016

Falling Down, Getting Up

Whether we've failed once or seven times or a thousand, the thing we need to...

December 16, 2016

On Santa Claus and Pantheism

Sure, there wasn't a magic guy with a flying sleigh, etcetera, but there was an...

December 15, 2016

Random Wednesday: Seasonal Music, Non-seasonal Music, and The Zen Of Rick And Morty

Welcome to another Random Wednesday episode of The Zen Pagan. This week, just a few...

December 14, 2016

In Praise of Socks and Underwear

Seriously, it's getting cold out there. Warm clothing is seasonally appropriate. A good comfortable base...

December 08, 2016

Dive Bars and the Ghost Ship Fire

To deal with social problems of all sorts, we need collaborative harm reduction policies, not...

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