Why would a Pagan blog for a free Iran? 1) To support the women who are standing up for their votes. They are being beaten and tear-gassed. Driven back by the militia, they exhort their men to step forward and claim their votes. I confess, I have long had an admiration for the Persian Scheherazade/Shaharazad [...]
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Filed under: Politics
June is International Pagan Bloggers Month, so let me say a bit about GoodGuide.com which offers consumers an opportunity to put their money where their values are. GoodGuide provides the world’s largest and most reliable source of information on the health, environmental, and social impacts of the products in your home. With GoodGuide, you can: [...]
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Filed under: Pagan Values, Uncategorized
International Pagan Blogging Month has introduced me to a multiverse of other Pagan bloggers. While several CIPS members are set up on Facebook, MySpace, or PaganSpace, nobody admits to blogging. Through Chrysalis’s site, however, I have been following a daisy-chain of Pagan contributors. How to chose? Do I want to read Witches and Scientists? How [...]
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Filed under: City Witch, Pagan Values, Urbanism
As I said previously, I am Pagan and I have values, but there has been, in the past, some doubt that my values were Pagan enough.. Nevertheless, “My Pagan Values”: I) Earth-based Spirituality (not just Nature-based.) II) Structure & Infrastructure III) Scholarship & Contemplation IV) Community V) Educating the Younger Generation I) Earth-based Spirituality (not [...]
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Filed under: Bookshelf, Pagan Values, Urbanism
As I posted yesterday, a Pagan named Pax has invited Pagan netizens to blog this month about Pagan Values. You would think that I would be in my natural element here: the subtitle on this blog is “A Solitary’s Musings on Faith and Values.” However I find that I am unexpectedly struck shy. While I [...]
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Filed under: Bookshelf, Pagan Values
A Pagan gentleman who goes by the name of Pax has declared June 2009 to be “International Pagan Values Blogging Month.” On May 11, 2009 he challenged members of the Pagan blogosphere: Let us then use our hearts and minds and words, invoking the fires of inspiration; let us write of the virtues and ethics [...]
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Filed under: Pagan Values
Sat up late last night working on the Long Now entry. Totally blew off Blessings journal. Irritated as all hell that I committed to doing the stupid thing! It’s all hog wash anyway! Day 21, did yesterday’s list and today’s. Nine more days to go. (Oh, I said 90 days, didn’t I? Mmmm, we’ll see…)
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Filed under: Blessing
In The Clock of the Long Now, Stewart Brand provides a diagram of the pace of change within the layers of civilization. The top layer, “Fashion,” changes rapidly. “Commerce,” the next layer down, changes a little less quickly. “Infrastructure” and “Goverance” are slower yet. “Culture” is conservative and tends to change slowly. “Nature” is the [...]
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Filed under: City Witch