doesn't touch tomorrow's promise

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & calendars & lyrics & Spring & sunshine & freezing rain & iTunes & Rick Springfield & MaKai & music & stepdad & classical music & rock 'n' roll & country and western & Grand Ole Opry & Loke E. Coyote & Superman - The Movie & Johnny Cash & Billy Joel & Miles Davis & Leo Kottke & Styx & Queen & gifts from the gods

“Even when we are nude, we hide our bodies in shame. Every minute of every day.”

— Why Be Socially Nude? from Family Skinnydippers

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & internet debates & good & argue & opinion & politically correct & stepdad & stepsibs & mother & dinner & tired & wisdom & last advocate

Gimme that old time religion.

Tags: companion & Lament & suicide & memory & love & stepdad & aunt & stepsibs & poor little me & lady god & Moon & mom & former lover

So it's with shorter hair and hot chocolate that I anticipate this High Holiday.

Tags: stepdad & trains & Spark of Inspiration & balance & photo & dynamic tension & secret of life & technopagan & maxims

It's the calendar that has got it wrong

Tags: stepdad & mom & family

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

❝Humanity is a colony organism. People cherish their passions. Competition breeds progress and encourages honesty. In the absence of understanding, triviality dominates. Seek paradox for truth. Resist dogma for growth. Beware anyone who offers an absolute.❞
     — NeoWayland, On Humantics

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & statuary & Dutch blue & copper & staves & sunlight & wrought iron & Victorian & Arizona & house & garden & on the road & library & bears & solar tube & shiny copper & color & faux finish & stepdad & Corporate Clone & bears & walking sticks

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

…and your Journey

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & classic & pagan community & pagan laity & voices of reason & stepdad & common sense & face of Paganism & Dominionism & Those Who Want To Be Noticed & Story People & fundamental & global warming & Wren's Nest & neocons & people of the book

If it’s bad when the People of the Book do it, then why on Earth is it a good idea when neopagans do it?

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & watch list & redemption & restitution & Jason Pitzl-Waters & Lupa & e•friend & ego & Divine & classic & vaudeville & TV & Big Name Pagan & Christians & stepdad & mom & Christian & Wiccan Crusaders & pagan community & Arizona & Utah & New Mexico & California & Colorado & shadows & borders & fringes & borders & shadows & Wild Hunt Blog & Cat Chapin Bishop & Quaker Pagan Reflections & Maggie Stiefvater & Christian Evangelical & Southern Baptist & United Methodist & witchwar & Excite Clubs & Back to the Future & community

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

A place among friends

Tags: Greater Pagan Community & house & garden & weird & fellow-feeling & Moon & stepdad

“Paganism should spread through experience and art, not theology. The theology comes later, if it comes.”

— Chas Clifton, Looking at Your Polis as a Pagan

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & tools & technopagan & Leatherman Charge & stepdad & tool group & tool box & utility belt & lightning & depression & insomnia & orgone

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