Yikes, I’m not keeping up with Dave Wilton’s researches!
1916: He’s keeping it on the hush-hush, but the looey plans to open a Ford dealership after the war is over. Read the rest.
1917: OMG! They’re selling pep pills at the Piggly Wiggly? Read the rest.
1918: Congresswoman, allow me to create a Venn diagram. This circle represents the introverts and this other circle represents the extroverts. Where they intersect . . . well, you have to read the whole thing.
At The Juggler, a roundup of blog posts from Pagan Values Month, which is June.
I liked Kayleigh’s discussion on the counsels of Solon “the lawgiver” and from there into a Pagan view of destructive natural disasters.
A turkey feather and a candle for Tlaloc. This culvert carries Hardscrabble Creek under a road—what is left of it.
In her comment on my first Tlaloc post, Hecate Demetersdatter asks, “What was/is it about Tlaloc that called/calls to you?”
It was my reading and re-reading of Craig Childs’ House of Rain that made me conscious of how important a deity Tlaloc (under various names) had been from antiquity to the present day in the American Southwest and on south into Mesoamerica. (Childs, no avowed polytheist, tends to regard him simply as the personification of the hydrological cycle.)
If we might regard deities as connected with place, then I am in that place and subject to that hydrological cycle—a cycle that seems to have stalled a bit this year.
And as Tlaloc has been addressed in many tongues already, why not add English to them?
Also, looking forward to the American Academy of Religion meeting in San Francisco, I obviously need to eat here.
. . . but rarely about the witch’s dustpan. Some interesting costuming from the 1870s at Sexy Witch.
From Sarah Whedon at Pagan Families:
Pagan Families seeks carefully written contributions on all aspects of Pagan pregnancy and childbirth. Examples of the kind of writing we are seeking include: scripts for conception rituals; theological essays on the ethics of reproduction; prayers to mother goddesses; Pagan sensitivity guides for birth professionals; personal essays on the experience of spiritual practice during pregnancy; reviews of Pagan-friendly birth resources; and Pagan birth stories. This list is by no means exhaustive. Pagan Families will publish in a blog format, using tags to organize content into categories so frazzled parents can easily research a particular topic.
The subtitle is “resources for Pagan pregnancy and birth,” but she adds,
The site is called Pagan Families because that name gives us lots of room to grow. I have two visions for the future growth of Pagan Families. The first is to amass enough thoughtful and inspiring material to publish a book on Paganism and the childbearing year. The second is to expand the site to cover other aspects of Pagan families, such as parenting and partnering.
She already has some good posts up—check it out.
I have not been keeping up with xkcd, and I missed this.
• I like animal skulls—I have a wall of them. At Crooked & Hidden Bones, read about the revival of a technique for “reddening the bones.” Talk about going back to very old ways of treating special or sacred bones. This is what the family did with your great x 150 grandfather.
• Here is a Google translation about an ethnic Finnish Pagan group trying to get official recognition as a religion in that predominately Lutheran country. Because Finnish is a non-Indo-European language, the translation is a little rough:
Christianity wiped the old faith of the Finnish culture quite well off, so it would be time for work such as digging for some holy book. The Kalevala, it can not be, because it is one man’s collection of poems, and even clean up such Muukka says.
• Hecate talks about the magical character—or the “telluric intelligence”— of cities, sounding a little bit like Charles de Lint but with a nod to David Abram, whose latest book—the one that she quotes from—I have on order.
When I want to do magic to influence the airy business of laws, I have a number of high places from which to scatter birdseed. When I want to get deep into the roots of the power structure, I can choose between the rotunda of the Capitol or the tidal basin off of the Potomac.
Chama, 2011 "Crazy River Dog" winner at the FIBArk whitewater boating festival, Salida, Colorado
. . . you can never retrieve a stick from the same river twice.
You call it a narcissistic lifestyle—I call it being a wino. Even the frosh know that.
