That changes depending on the year… Weekly Recap 8/4/2025
My idea of a “daily carry” has changed over the years. Let’s leave out the obvious answers here like “cell phone” and “wallet” or anything related to money.
For some years of my life, it was important to always have a lighter in my pocket. Even after I quit smoking, I still carried a lighter for quite some time. I know it sounds strange, but I kept it with me in case someone else nearby needed to use it.
That was actually part of a book I read once, Tiny Buddha’s 365 Tiny Love Challenges. The challenge for that particular section was to carry something with you specifically for other people to use. I think I may have mentioned it before. It was a curious book.
At other times in my life, it’s been necessary to carry a pen at all times. Of course, I ruined many pairs of pants with the ink leaking through the pocket, so I stopped doing that.
And at other times still, I’ve made sure to keep a guitar pick somewhere on my person. You never know when someone is just going to hand you a guitar and expect you to start playing, right? Yes, it happens. So it’s important to have a pick…
But those are all fairly mundane objects. The things I constantly keep with me now are mostly of personal or spiritual significance — a ring on my right middle finger, a necklace around my neck, and a bracelet on my left wrist. I’ve had them on for years and they rarely come off. Actually, I think it’s been more than a year since I last removed the bracelet.
There is one thing, though, that I haven’t left the house without wearing for the longest amount of time…
My wedding ring 🙂
And I can’t even imagine what it would feel like to not have it on!
Daily writing prompt What is the most important thing to carry with you all the time?
View all responses Good morning and happy Monday, friends! Happy start to August!
I hope everyone had a lovely Lammas… or Lughnasad… or whatever you choose to call it!
I’ve got some big news! My book’s cover has finally been released… and with that little bit of information, I can also tell you that Christopher Penczak wrote the foreword.
I talked about this in a Facebook post yesterday, but I’ll share it again here. At the beginning of this year, I was running some errands… honestly, it was in a reasonably familiar area that’s fairly close to our house. I got an email alert on my phone and all I could see was that it was from Christopher and said “Attachment: Foreword to…”
In my excitement, I managed to make several wrong turns and then proceeded to get lost for about 15 minutes.
It is truly an honor for me to have someone like Christopher Penczak not only just read my work, but also to “lend their name” so to speak and write the foreword!
So… yeah, I’ve been sitting on that detail for about 6 months now and I’m happy to finally be able to make it public.
I realize I’m posting a little bit later than usual. That’s only because it was such a ridiculously busy morning! I just finished up a wonderful conversation with Jessica Howard, author of The Art of Lithomancy. She answered all of my lithomancy-related questions and even demonstrated how to do a full lithomancy reading with her own personal set. You can catch all of this in a future episode of M3, of course.
In other news, we’re back from Texas. My sister’s wedding was a success! I’ve got tons of pictures, but they’re mostly family-oriented, so I’ll pass on sharing them. Instead, settle for this picture of me and my beautiful wife.
It’s kind of weird to get back from a trip in the middle of the week. Since it was a short week for us, I skipped on doing a new book review (which, yes, bothers me that I broke the cycle). With the time I did have to work on things, all of my content was pretty rune-centered… as you can probably see from the links at the top.
On Friday night we had our coven Lughnasadh celebration. Check out this cool altar.
The ritual was led by two of our students and we all had a great evening. And yes, there was bread!
In the world of food aside from bread, Selene and I found a brand new Indian restaurant that’s very close to our house.
It was tasty! Although I can’t say it’s the best in the area… it is the closest — so there’s that.
I do have one more big thing to admit to everyone…
We went to Olive Garden.
And we enjoyed it.
These next few weeks are going to be pretty crazy. We’ll all be getting back into the swing of things with school starting…
Oh, and I don’t just mean for the kids. Selene and I are both furthering our education.
Anyway, that’s all for now! Stay tuned for more…
Hello friends. I linked to two books on this page. Those are both Amazon referral links. If you use one of those links to make a purchase, then Amazon will pay me a tiny commission. You totally should buy them, though, because they’re both very interesting books. Have I ever linked to a book that isn’t interesting? I don’t think so.
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