❝We're not wired emotionally to differentiate between 'good' and 'bad.' We just recognize peak passion, the strongest emotions. If your peak passion is with your family and loved ones, those are the experiences you seek out. If your peak passion is because you built an amazing motorcycle, that is what you remember and seek out. And unfortunately, if your peak passion is abuse at work or abusing someone, that is what you seek out.❞

— NeoWayland, peak experience

Tags: maxims & passion & peak experience & remember & family & motorcycle & abuse

The calendar and some site information.

Tags: today & Advent & family & typewritten & Special Elite & Starwell & Courier & lexicon & sticky note & American Typewriter & grandfather & Mercury retrograde & Saturnalia & waxing moon

A pagan take on another holiday classic.

Tags: calendars & Arizona & Louisiana & mother & 1950 & grandmother & family & picture & highway sign

❝Do I think I can change the universe? I already have. Can I make it better? Maybe.❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: the Gardener & family & mom & flowers & manifest & vegetables & soil & ugh-politics & sunrise & birdsong & garden & community

Yes, I know the rhythm is odd. It works though.

Tags: Court of Shadows & trees & Summergate & pendants & Mom & caregiver & Raven & family & journal & wheel of the year & solar eclipse & Fire Festivals

Our nation in particular calls back to the classical Greeks and the Roman Republic.

Tags: strength & woman & great-grandmother & family & Great-Grandma & life & faith & joy & widow & Louisiana & broken back

“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream.
Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams.
World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams.
Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.”

— Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy

Tags: energy fields & mosaic & 1995 & winter & family & friends & co-workers & random strangers & Gnosis magazine & 1995

She keeps the Great Secret

Tags: Grand Canyon & North Rim & Kaibab National Forest & Phoenix & Kaibab squirrel & Abert’s squirrel & Ponderosa pine & raisins & nuts & Jacob Lake & South Rim & aspen & play & social behavior & family & photo

It's the calendar that has got it wrong

Tags: stepdad & mom & family

Hold her hands, gently, almost like a caress. Tell her how you feel about her. Tell her how you feel when you are with her. Do it again in thirteen minutes, precisely.

Tags: monotheism 2nd sin & family & depression & companion & Christian & Asperger syndrome & love & Divine & world & polyamory

I’ve put the Sex catagory in the main menu

Tags: woods & red sandstone & fall & Walker & Wheel & Arizona & desert & fall & winter & Phoenix & green & aspen & pine & shadows & sun & family & snow & National Park & National Forest & lightning & new growth & circles with cycles & Walker & Christian & goodbye & honor & hiding from sorrow & harmony & I. Was. Different. & loss & stepdad & classic & Mom & stepsib

Eggnog French toast

Tags: Imbolc & Sparkpoint & Fire Festivals & WebTree & wheel of the year & Spring & winter-born & family & blue sky & snow & solar year & Mom & caregiver

I joke about it, but that is the heart of it. Or maybe the hearth. It’s the center.

Tags: family & bless list & Mom & caregiver

Time for this semi-hermit to have a party.

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Tags: family & Howard Gardner & poet & artist & frames of mind & hidden talents & stepdad & stebsibs

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Speaking of the way that one idea links to another, I can’t help but notice a conflict. And a song.

Tags: argue & family & logic & Bible & Christian bash & Christianity & Pagan & Corporate Clone & corporate culture & Wiccan Crusaders & stepsib & stepdad & Christian & Mom

Most people go through life letting the Robot drive

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & paganism & Christianity & Christian & connections & Age of Wonders & stepdad & note to self & clean sheets & hot running water & Spark of Inspiration & makers & amateur radio & family & Mom & Dad

Worth mentioning with some of the latest posts

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & Blessed & Methodist & family & talking not begging & KMF & classic & iron rule & Bishop Golden & Divinity & allies not servants & offering my loyality & honor & godmask & Elder Relatives & fear vs. love & Ro3 & rule of three

Sort of progress, still not sure if I am going to do it

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & today & classic & most popular & depression & winter blues & Asperger syndrome & poor little me & family & victimhood & addiction & suicide & mask & passions & Coyote's gift & you are not alone & SAD & lyrics & stepdad & collecting pelts

Welcome to Winter

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & family & Great Unspoken Southern Rules & Eldest Son & stepsib & stepdad & classic & character & expectation & evangelism & Christianity & pullback & Christian & monotheism 2nd sin

The cycle turns, another step into the abyss

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & Divine & family & Christian & Christmas & grandfather & cousin & mom & chants & stepdad & Chief & Host & Elders & Honored Guests & children & pecking order & Thanksgiving & Easter & Mother's Day & Jesus & carpenter & Mother Nature & hunting & tramping & tinkering & tracking & fishing & earthy types & Bible & Mighty Dead & godmask & Dad & Mom

Patterns and flow

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & character & family & fundy & proselytize & Christian & Christians & stepdad & social behavior & culture war & classic & evangelism

“ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX IV: I mean what exactly are you doing with your life?

ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX: I'm being attacked by a Vogon Fleet.

ZB IV: Doesn't surprise me in the least.”

—The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy radio series, Fit the Ninth

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & Nature & today & Arizona & stepdad & Phoenix AZ & Tucson & Colorado River & high desert & low desert & family & passing & classic

Bone, Heart, Thought, Deed, and Spirit, I choose to honor these people this season

Tags: family & wheel of the year & Zenna Henderson & Isaac Bonewits & Bishop Golden & stepdad & amateur radio & Steve Jobs & Ludwig van Beethoven & classical music DJ & nature verses nurture & grandfather & United Methodist & minister

It's not quite... ancestor worship

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & family & True Lady & Hestia & compassion & Norman Borlaug & grandmother & Johnny Cash & Southern Ladies & wheel of the year & hospitality & Zenna Henderson & lyrics & stepdad & Sunni Maravillosa & RAW

Here’s the secret to being a pagan

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & lyrics & wheel of the year & family & Zenna Henderson & uncle & stepdad & Isaac Asimov & John Chapman & Mom & John Denver & mom & stepsib

Beware the Egos

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & mom & wheel of the year & family & Zenna Henderson & Jack Benny & Monty Python & Mark Twain & Samuel Clemens & Thomas Jefferson & Ladimir Kwiatkowski & Coyote & Wallace & Ladmo Show

The sun comes up other there…

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & Julian & Harry S Truman & wheel of the year & family & Zenna Henderson & Doreen Valiente & grandfather & Christian