KidzBoptotenlieder

KidzBoptotenlieder

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Rector Trinity Episcopal, Oshkosh | Coleridge | editor-in-chief Earth & Altar | he/him | Sewer Socialist | orgulloso floridiano | Drawings at theodramatist.com/saints | blog at theodramatist.com/warmthlight-blog

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I think it’s kind of weird that I get most distant from (other?) Anglo Catholics when it comes to the most pleasant part of the tradition (Mary) and get closest, or surpass them, on the harshest (death)

If you are curious about some of the uses for ai in church with, I have Claude doing extensive research in premodern incense recipes, including scouring books in the internet archive and doing paleography work and translation and then translating medieval quantities into contemporary ones.

I think the idea of offering a safe place from the real danger of trick or treating (cars, roads, dark, limited visibility masks and costumes) is a great and awesome thing to do. Get a community to close off a street downtown from 5-9 and have kids go business to business or booth to booth.

But it is ironic that what we do with Trunk or Treat is then put all the things that are the real danger (cars!) in a lot and have kids gather candy from them.

Basically, I think Trunk or Treat teaches people, or encourages them to lean into, in most contexts the worst kind of "stranger danger" fear of neighbors that is corrosive of community and often grounded in entirely Urban Legend level dangers associated with Halloween.

I’m trying to find a summer casual fragrance that isn’t Acqua di Gio Parfum (sadly, Portia nixed it), is fresh but also woody, doesn’t dry down powdery or soapy, isn’t fougère, help