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Taught an hour of basic musicianship to someone today. It wasn't as awful as I expected. It's hard work, but I remembered about 10 minutes in that the only thing I can do is give good information, and the rest is up to person on the other end, so that really helped me enjoy the process instead of just having high anxiety about the fact that I apparently think that I'm supposed to provide mind-blowing understanding at every second.

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The loft of the lady chapel at St Matt’s

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Yup. Even colder than expected.

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This weather shifting back and forth between 70 and 40 degrees is giving me a headache. Both metaphorically and quite actually.

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There are so many videos of people jerking off in their cars on the Internet that one can't help but wonder how often one has been nearby...

#as always reactions will vary widely

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Also helloooooo from 330 W. Wellington!

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Put these sunnies on only to look outside and realize that it was about to start raining

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Hi! I'm a former monastic (forever contemplative) whose mythos is very syncretic, but whose practice for the most part looks pretty traditionally Christian, if a little extra (lots of chanting, candles, bells and incense) for what might just be, to anyone else, "Wednesday." My name in life religious was in honor of Blessed Uriel, Archangel, and I have a special devotion to and relationship with St. Uriel as a result. It's probably easiest to call me "heterodox" or even "Quarternitarian," as I revere the Blessed Mother's participation in God to be so similar to Jesus's participation in God as not to need to be disentangled with dogmatic proclamation. I suppose this implies a bit of Gnosticism, and I'm not anti-gnostic, but I'm also pro-liberation as regards the contemporary physical life in nondual relation with the spirit, not transposed to a "spiritual realm," and certainly not elitist (there is no "chosen people"; no "elect"). As regards creation, I agree with the declaration in Genesis: "It is good." Insomuch as I identify as a Christian, Matthew Fox's concepts around "Creation Spirituality" are a good guide for the basic contour of what I consider to be a healthy engagement with a faith that has been poisoned by centuries of engagement in asset-accumulation and state politics.

For what it's worth, I am also a poet who regularly creates liturgy, so I am certainly available to help with the writing of prayers. Pinning me down isn't easy, but if I say I'll do something, you can rely on it.

mutuals continue to arrive because of my previous post but right now I am on a new search:

christopagan /christian or catholic witch

folk witch

christian/catholic sympathizer with other religions

works with angels/saints/mary/jesus

PRAYERS, someone who likes to write PRAYERS

reblog, like, say hi, I'm looking for you

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"...There is no such thing as woman per se, no maternal pole, no eternal feminine ... The man/woman opposition serves as a foundation to the social order, before class and caste conflicts intervene. Conversely, whatever shatters norms, whatever breaks from the established order, is related to homosexuality or a becoming-animal or a becoming-woman, etc. Every semiotization in rupture implies a sexualization in rupture. Thus, to my mind, we shouldn't ask which writers are homosexual, but rather, what it is about a great writer— even if he is in fact heterosexual —that is homosexual.

I think it's important to destroy 'big' notions like woman, homosexual ... Things are never that simple. When they're reduced to black-white, male-female categories, there's an ulterior motive, a binary-reductionist operation meant to subjugate them. For example, you cannot qualify a love univocally. Love in Proust is never specifically homosexual. It always has a schizoid, paranoid component, a becoming-plant, a becoming-woman, a becoming-music." — Guattari, "Becoming-Woman"

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I guess the THC equivalent of a "shower beer" would be a "bath bowl", but I really don't want to deal with the tub...

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You cannot imagine how thrilled I am that the only thing I have to accomplish today is to make enchiladas.

#apologies for whatever is in the corner of my right eye

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Getting ready to head out to do Eucharistic Ministry stuff this morning. I love helping with access to the meal that the soul desires.

I’m as at-peace as I get with the fact that I’m doing what I’m doing because I want to be where spirit has a chance to breathe, not because I’m getting anything right.

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As I was headed out the door of the rectory today, temporary boss at Jesus Factory #2 wished me rest and said, "I've got to write a sermon now, and it's yet to be seen if I can meet the standard you set last week."

And he was not joking at all.

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This is an amazing mask. Great seal. But it does hurt my ears.