Changing paths
About the experience of changing paths
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The sunk cost fallacy
One of the reasons that people tend to stay in toxic relationships and religions, persist with failing projects, and even watch terrible movies all the way to the end, is the sunk cost fallacy.
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Deconstruction story: Richard Swan
A friend shared a Facebook post by Richard Swan (in the fun group Dull Men’s Club) today, talking about how vanishingly few people are tone deaf, and most people can sing. I take the view that singing is an outpouring of the soul and one of the cruellest things a person can do is to…
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Other blogging challenge posts
Two other people participated in the Changing Paths blogging challenge 2024: Jarred the Wyrd-worker and The River Crow. Kudos to Jarred for keeping it up for the whole month and continuing to write blogposts in response to the prompts at the end of the chapters in Changing Paths. And The River Crow wrote some beautiful…
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The future
Changing Paths challenge day 30: the future The future that I want to live in is one in which everyone is equal and we are in partnership with Nature and the land, like the utopian visions in these books: Always Coming Home by Ursula K Le Guin, The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk, and News…
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Inspirations
Changing Paths challenge day 29: inspirations Many writers worry about being inspired by other writers, in case inspiration comes off as plagiarism. But true inspiration is not plagiarism, it just references its source and then does something completely different.
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People I admire
Changing Paths challenge day 28. People I admire. (This is by no means a complete list of people I admire. Some of the people I admire are not famous but have spent a lifetime doing a thing in an admirable way.)
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Movies and TV
Changing Paths challenge day 27: movies and TV. Movies and TV that changed my mind / blew my mind.
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Colours
Changing Paths Challenge day 26: colours For today’s challenge, I’ve pulled up my article about the colours of Paganism from my blog, Dowsing for Divinity. Green is the colour everyone immediately associates with Paganism. It is the colour of nature, of trees, and all growing things. It is associated with the Green Man, a symbol…
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Books
Changing Paths challenge day 25: books 📚 I love reading books. I love writing books. I love talking about books. I love having a to-be-read pile. I love rereading books that I have enjoyed. A book is a little world and its characters are mirrors you can hold up, and try identifying with them to…
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Music
Changing Paths challenge day 24: Music I love music, especially any piece where the artist really put their soul into it. This is often the case with the music of oppressed, displaced, and marginalized peoples. I have very diverse tastes in music but some of my favourite genres are Cajun, klezmer, zydeco, blues, baroque, medieval…
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Festivals
Changing Paths challenge day 23: Festivals I love Pagan festivals and I am very glad that there’s one every six weeks or so, as it takes the pressure off of Yule. If you only celebrate Yule and Easter (and Thanksgiving in North America), there’s so much pressure to get it right and have a good…
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Solstice
Changing Paths challenge day 21: solstice The sun pauses on her journeyAround the horizonWaiting for you to stopTo look around and seeThe beauty of the world The flowers and the hills and the treesThe sunsets and the butterfliesThe mountains and the oceansThe laughter of childrenRefaat’s kites sailing on the breeze The kind old sun is…
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