Oof. Night shift is no joke. And neither is trying to adjust back to day.

Colorized drawing of blonde white girl in pink sweater and green skirt.

“Well, if I were You-Know-Who, I'd want you to feel cut off from everyone else. Because if it's just you alone, you're not as much of a threat.”

- a quote that keeps running through my head from that terfy author

(Luna Lovegood art by Jenimal)
www.deviantart.com/jenimal/gall...

Defying Gravity (From "Wicked" Original Broadway Cast Recording/2003) YouTube video by Kristin Chenoweth - Topic

“I hope you're happy too /
I hope you're proud how you would grovel in submission /
To feed your own ambition”

youtu.be/fEq3xM-i0Ng?...

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Kristen Bell - The Next Right Thing (From "Frozen 2"/Sing-Along) YouTube video by DisneyMusicVEVO

“And with the dawn, what comes then
When it's clear that everything will never be the same again?
Then I'll make the choice
To hear that voice
And do the next right thing”

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Annual Clergy Report for 2024 This report covering the year 2024 is designed to illustrate how each individual priest has chosen to fulfill their oath to love the land, honor the deities, serve the folk, and continue in their s…

I completed my Annual Clergy Report for last year. If you'd like to see what I've been up to: hellenicdruid.com/2025/02/01/a...

Red lab tearing at chew toy

My derp. My precious.
So sweet. So destructive.
🥰
#labradorretriever

Send Love YouTube video by Mary Chapin Carpenter - Topic

“When all you've got is not enough to get you through the day
(Send love)
Your candles burnt down to the wick, no fuel for a flame
(Send love)

Send love without conditions,
And maybe to yourself this once
To show you are deserving of love”

youtu.be/gyr9Ut8Y0VI?...

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Uncle iroh sharing tea with Lu Ten, and quote that says “"You must never give in to despain. Allom yourself to slip down that road and you surrender to your lomest instincts. In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength."

And yet we can remember that no nation is a monolith, and we each have a sliver of light within us. AtLA reminds us that joy and community and love and care and whimsy are worth preserving in the face of hate.

Are you scared?

If you’re following me for content about humanity in the workplace, ousting the eff-your-feelings crowd and delivering affirming care to people who are different but certainly not broken, what’s happening in the world right now is probably terrifying.

But you know what?

Welcome to the Resistance: Raise Your Snake & Lantern Over the last 8+ years, I’ve thought/talked/wrote/taught about magical resistance work a whole lot. And the thing I keep coming back to is this: the work we do at the local level that aids, builds, an...

@ltzwitch.bsky.social says “instead of hurling raw anger transmute that energy to strengthen your community.
This is dirt work: planting, cultivating, pruning, & fertilizing.
There’s darkness here too: the dark plays an important role in germination & overcoming fear”
www.patheos.com/blogs/tempes...

Beloved ally friends, there is a difference between offering support and needing to vent fear with someone. I recognize that there's a message of "check on your queer friends" going around, but like a lot of quick messages, there's some nuance being lost.

Before you reach out, please do a quick...

“We shall be known by the company we keep /
By the ones who circle round to tend these fires
…
In this Great Turning we shall learn to lead in love”
- MaMuse
www.riseupandsing.org/songs/we-sha...

#AwayMessageJukebox #HopeSeeking

Text of the poem “Good Bones” by Maggie Smith Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children. For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.

“I am trying
to sell them the world. Any decent realtor,
walking you through a real shithole, chirps on
about good bones: This place could be beautiful,
right? You could make this place beautiful.”

- Maggie Smith

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"Banned Together" premiered by the Columbus Gay Men's Chorus at GALA Festival 2024 YouTube video by Columbus Gay Men's Chorus

“Look at the family I have made, I’m stronger / When we’re marching hand in hand it’s a love that they can never ban and never sever. ‘Cause if we’re banned we’ll be banned together.”

(Thanks Pax, and CGMC)

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#AwayMessageJukebox #HopeSeeking

“When I lift my voice, let it be in song
A defiant note in the face of wrong
I won't stand alone, we'll stand side by side
'Cause we know that love is always justified
When they try to divide us
It will only unite us
I lift my voice”

www.riseupandsing.org/songs/i-lift...

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A small group came over for my birthday and I requested we play Totem, the “be seen and learn to accept compliments” game.

This is what they saw in me ❤️🥹

"Sometimes I ache for faithlessness:
the comfort of the hopelessly lost
...
Hope draws you up, stumbling and sore,
to run another mile through the thorns."

by @kwannonmusic.bsky.social, who always manages to dig into my soul with poetry <3

Carefully the Gardener tends the trees. Hail, Teutates!

Ask Me Anything, by S. J. Tucker from the album Wonders

“So don't you dare be afraid. Just you hold your head up high /
Never mind the ones who tell you you're too big and bold and bright!”
@sjtuckermusic.bsky.social sjtucker.bandcamp.com/track/ask-me...

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Glass Cup and kettle of coffee, cheesecake on black plate

Delicious Yemeni coffee with a friend, building new connections. #ObligateExtrovert

That’s one of a few driving factors to me pursuing professional chaplaincy. It is so important to a young religious movement. Not only so we know how to deal with things personally and in our communities, but also so we can get recognition on the mainstream society level.

Oh, wow! It is coming up, isn’t it. Crazy.