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 poetry in response to the prompts.
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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 from Nowhere by William Morris. In this future, Indigenous Peoples would be respected and valued and have their land back. LGBTQ2SIA people would be respected and valued too.
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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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Changing Paths challenge day 27: movies and TV.
Movies and TV that changed my mind / blew my mind.
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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 of our connection to Nature, and a manifestation of the life-force. Many Pagans also like the colour purple for its spiritual connotations (it is associated with the crown chakra).
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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 make sense of who you are.
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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 and renaissance music, and protest songs.
I have recently been listening to Palestinian music and it is beautiful. Check out this list of Palestinian artists by Christina Hazboun from 2021.
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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 time. But with Pagan festivals, if Yule doesn’t go so well or isn’t your thing, there’s another festival coming soon.
🎄❄️🐣🌸☀️🌾🍂🎃
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Changing Paths challenge day 22: feast
I love to have a feast (shared food / Pagan potluck) in sacred space, so that we are feasting with the gods. However it’s got a bit impractical with the numbers of people involved and so we tend to have our feast after circle these days.
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Changing Paths challenge day 21: solstice
The sun pauses on her journey
Around the horizon
Waiting for you to stop
To look around and see
The beauty of the world
The flowers and the hills and the trees
The sunsets and the butterflies
The mountains and the oceans
The laughter of children
Refaat’s kites sailing on the breeze
The kind old sun is waiting
For war and slaughter to cease
For limbs, so dear-achieved
Not to be shattered by bombs
But to dance in her kindly rays.
She waits for humanity to awaken
To our full humanity
Where we open our hearts to each other
The love shining from our eyes
For all beings, all of Nature.
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