little updates

Some quick updates:

I completed a big section of the new website: updating and expanding the How To Beginner Practices booklets. So if you ever wanted 4000 well-formatted words on how to read a book, it's all there now. I'm sort-of gearing up to do classes, but really it'll just be...reading out some of that stuff and making some social time so people can feel motivated by doing it together. Right now, stuff is going on and I never want to speak to another human soul - great for getting the website shipshape, less so for community moderation.

I've also added a novelty 404 page to the site - which does have sound if you enable the browser to play it, although it's a bit fernickity. When did the internet decide it was more social to allow your end-user to choose if they hear your godawful site music, eh? Bring back autoplay.

And I have a first draft of a calendar, which is a proper weight off my mind, though it's far from having all the details. I'm finding it's focusing my ritual time in the way I need.

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I'm getting a wendy house. One came up for free on local gumtree. It's a glorified shed with a little veranda, and my husband grumbled that he wanted to stay in bed more than getting a "damn wendy house" and that's rather stuck as a way of thinking about it: it's not a grown up desire for a Tiny House, but a childhood one for a Tree House.

I'm still not wholly sure what I'm going to do with it, because part of me does want to turn it into a girly dream palace with frilly Victorian curtains and a tea set; but essentially, it's going to be my temple space. All these visions, like carved dragons on the wooden ends and thatching on the roof, stars on the ceiling and a permanent circle on the floor who knows. None of that will get done, of course. I'm thinking of making it over as if it was a hobbit hole, and I want to be able to sleep in there (how?) but it's only 6ft square so an actual bed is going to swallow the whole thing. I think I might want to write in there too, and want at least one cosy chair if not two; and an altar, and a wood-burning stove. But still - there is room for an altar and a circle and some shelves; or two chairs and a little table; or a bed, a stove and a side table. I don't tend to need objects for my rituals, like an altar shouldn't just be a clutter-attractor, so maybe a focal painting or paintings on the wall will be better than a table with stuff on it. Mostly I think I just like the idea of somewhere to escape to.