Tiny House Living

Reflections and advice based on years of thrift and simple living in a tiny house on wheels.

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Fantastic and earthy, playful and melancholy poems on such topics as love, nakedness, disillusionment, hidden creatures, and breakfast.

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Thoughts on—and free resources for—fantasy, science fiction, worldbuilding, tabletop role-playing, and game design.

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Spiritual, religious, magickal, and mystical practice for rational folk! Subscribe to the Placebo Magick Podcast using your favorite podcatcher or our RSS feed.

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A re-imagining of human culture! At the intersection of fantasy worldbuilding, social action, spiritual practice, and homesteading awaits the vast ten acre realm of Habdur.

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Patreon-supported poem from Sunday, March 24, 2019:

Containment

shed coat
I shed my coat and wondered
how my old friends would react
to the tentacle gliding
across the table edge, fidgeting and feeling out
textures. I have been letting it
explore me and my old haunts—
curiosity killed the cat
but I am not a cat
today. I am a …
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Podcast from Thursday, March 21, 2019:

E16 Tarot 101

3-card tarot spread

Today on the Placebo Magick Podcast we give a broad beginner's introduction to tarot cards and how they can still be helpful without any supernatural factor. The Spell of the Week is a simple tarot spread representing different layers of your psychology.

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Podcast from Friday, March 15, 2019:

E15 The Hero's Journey

the heavens

Today on the Placebo Magick Podcast we give a bird's eye view of the archetypal Hero's Journey (as described by Joseph Campbell) and its usefulness in spiritual practice. The Spell of the Week is a simple divination method based on the Hero's Journey.

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Podcast from Wednesday, March 6, 2019:

E14 The Afterlife

the heavens

Today on the Placebo Magick Podcast we discuss some ways in which imagining a (fictional) afterlife can prove helpful, and we propose a new definition of "soul" or "spirit" entirely compatible with a skeptical, scientific worldview. The Spell of the Week is a ritual to summon the presence of a …

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Patreon-supported poem from Sunday, March 3, 2019:

At the Crossroads

the Crossroads of Multiverses
The only right sacrifice
in the timeless temple
is to leave
by but one

of the Thousand Thousand Ways.
It would seem a sacrilege here
to forsake
Nine Hundred Thousand
Nine Hundred Ninety-Nine
perfectly good
roads to happiness
and right living

—Nine Hundred Thousand
Nine Hundred Ninety-Nine good wives
each …
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