Expansive Contractions

Spacewarden that I am, this website is now being repurposed to hold several other layers of my (literary) existence.

Back in 2017 --at the intersection of my travel-self and a new Romanian server-- my writing archive Humandala blew up.  The new provider apparently had been warning me for a month that the site would be 86ed at the end of February.  But February had been spent moving friends' furniture cross-country, and prepping for the first Peripateo.  I had just gotten back to Greece, was trying to suss out my path through the sanctuaries when I logged into Humandala.org -- only to find all eleven years of it reduced to scraps on the WayBackMachine. 

I've had better days. . .

Babies, stop right now and back up your websites.  
If you are working on a site (as I was) that has propriety rights to the formatting software (they did), change it now.

You done?  Good.

Blogger saves everything, so the new writing archive will be plugged in at For Writing Out Loud, with a link through the Eleusian Epiphanies.

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Otherwise, over the next three months I have decided to focus on creating the sadhanas/practices for the Eλeuσian Eπiφaνies, and to launch them next year.   I've written out the 33 Names of Goddess -- rewritten after running the workshops and giving private introductions several times.  These won't be 'final' versions of the sadhanas, but the springboard for their public discussion.  Nose around the Inklings page (currently being rewritten) for their evolution.

Late in 2014 --purely by happenstance-- I found myself on a Mediterranean mountainside for four months.  In this (relatively) pristine environment all symptoms of my autoimmune disorder dissipated. When I returned to the States, the symptoms returned within a couple of months.  When they disappeared again in 2015, then 2016 and 2017-18, it became clear that my work can only go forward in a place where capitalism hasn't completely overwhelmed the ecosystem.  Where we  have a fighting chance of keeping the environment balanced through timely, intelligent political action.  Greece, France, Spain pretty well fit the description.

(And maybe Cyprus, if Erdogan can be persuaded that it is in his best interests to play smart in the area.   Everyone (EVERYone) sooner-or-later gets sick of him/herself, of the tooºwellºknown self-story, and I believe there is a quasar moment that rotates through all of us - one that says:  soooo much hating today? Aren't you bored??  Here, try this idea of yourself:  Peacemonger.   See? Better?  Do that...  Even for dictators.  Maybe, especially for dictators. )

The Ξ|Ξ will eventually organize the Sadhanas|Practices and their supporting products ~ but for now it is where I will meditate on their creation, try out versions, invite people to come talk with me.  Workshops? Workshops?? Maybe, but I am really really really rethinking the need for even 'mini'mass events... Maybe we just speak in sotto voce -- with one another, softly, from now on.

Alilat (and Internet) Willing. . .
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