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 This is mostly a post-it for myself.  However, feel free to comment if you have ideas or suggestions.  The Pagan Blog Project is currently on the letter G, but it usually takes me at least a week to get a decent post put together, so I start writing my next letter about 10 days in advance.  Which puts me on H.

There are a lot of H topics I would love to write about, but I'm having trouble picking just one.  Here is the list so far:

Hugs, Healing and Pocket Humanity - this would be about how the interwebs have helped to usher in an age of anti-social society, and how more than the earth needing healing (the earth adapts), we need to work on healing humanity.  I would also throw in the free hugs video for heart-warming appeal.

Happiness - this would be about finding the simple joys in life, and how much I've learned about being happy from my daughter.

Harm - this would be a breakdown of what the adage 'a witch who can't hex can't heal'.  There are a lot of Sacred Mists brand priestesses around these days, and I am tempted to rub their faces in the dirty edges of the Craft (there are also a lot of people who are doing 'Shadow Work' that they think is about facing your fears and then whining when it leaks out into the rest of their lives - but that rant can wait for later).

Honey - I would love to explore the magical properties of honey and bees.  Went to the farmer's market yesterday, and they were selling great big buckets of it.  I really want to buy one just to say I have a BUCKET of honey!  

Organic Pagans: Healthy Living - this one is an idea held over from the LOTP website.  It would be an exploration on cooking from scratch, buying organic on a budget, getting exercise and how obesity is not a lifestyle choice.  There seems to be a contingent in the Pagan Community right now who think that because there is a call for healthier living that that means that everyone expects Pagans to be skinny, and that there is all this prejudice against plump Pagans all of a sudden.

Hair - this one would be a look at how hair has been prized historically, and how it relates to a person's self esteem, and different cultural/religious views on headcovering and whatnot.  It would totally start with a youtube video of the song from the musical 'Hair'.

Herbcrafting - this would be a fun, light hearted article detailing spring and herb crafts and gifts.

I guess it comes down to tone.  Now that I have followers, I'm starting to think of these articles as less for me and more from me.  I'm not sure I want to preach at cyberspace, and I'm not sure I want to steer clear of controversial subjects in an effort to keep from upsetting the neo-fluffs.  

I may also give up my tumblr account.  I haven't found anything that wasn't fluffy or goth-fluffy there at all.  It's kind of been a big waste of time.

With an idea ruthlessly stolen from zahirahblue, I have decided that my lovely new laptop needs a name.  Problem is, I am blank on this one.  No coffee = no ideas.

Does anyone out there have any ideas that they would like to donate to the cause of 'Name Phae's laptop'?

--Phae