Annotated Table of Contents for 2022
Annotated Table of Contents for 2022
Gathering together the posts of 2022 - so I can find things, and my readers can too.
This Table of Contents is a collection of Songs of Forgiveness 2022’s written posts. It is organized starting with most recent posts at the top to the very first post written here upon the first new moon of the year on January 2, 2022. I have listed them by date and included their byline at the end in quotations. I tried to list the things that the posts covered, which I did for my own organization and hopefully my descriptions and inclusions will be useful in case others want to find something in the archives. In my ideal world, I’d figure out a better way to format this. Coming soon: I will create a section of Songs of Forgiveness dedicated to posts featuring mom. Thanks for joining me on this learning curve.♡
December 29 - 🌓 almost forgotten post, list of things done while all was in town, photo essay from out on the town - “Better late than never.”
December 23 - 🌑 the raven and healing circles and beginning the final new moon of the year - “Not yet the anniversary of this publication”
December 16 - 🌗finishing what I’ve started, latch key and the story of Grandpa’s death, gift link again, snow plow TikTok - “"Verify", gift of Moon Meditations, snow plow TikTok”
December 7 - 🌕silver polish, story of mom, big house communal living, giving a subscription to the newsletter as a gift - “Silver Polish, communal living, gift idea for you.”
November 30 - 🌓 update about work as I write from ND, administrative work, link to Chicano Lit paper - “Biding my Time in Grand Forks.”
November 23 - 🌑changed the title of this post to “Begin this practice with the New Moon” and pinned it to the top of my home page. This post contains my moon meditations gathered into one page. - “Pausing via the wild and natural time-machine of a lunation(Updated with each New Moon)”
November 16 - 🌗accountability, Ohara Peace Bell, “this is a short one”
November 8 - 🌕Election Day and full moon together, mom update, voting as spiritual practice. podcast update - “Election Day, Big Forehead, Mom Update, and Various Things to Read”
November 1 - 🌓 my ambition, the algorithm and “colonization of the psyche” - “on inner wisdom from an inner troll”
October 25 - 🌑a photo of Dignity, young people and the ouroboros, Dakota and their youth - “the ouroboros, endorsements, loss and sorrow”
October 17 - 🌗 voter tutorial, moon meditation link, mom update - “photo tutorial, podcast link, schedule”
October 9 - 🌕Tibetan Prophesy, story of the Kent’s of Duluth and Bob Dylan - “a song in several verses”
October 2 - 🌓 Mid-term election voting plan, link to moon meditation podcast series, mom’s birthday poem - “Midterm Elections, Poetry, Podcast Link”
September 22 - 🌑 mom’s various political jobs, new moon meditations for this lunation, birthday month. - “League of Women Voters”
September 17 - 🌗mrs. america, Gloria Steinem, Feminist Caucus, “Some history of the ERA and a TV Recommendation”
September 10 - 🌕processing photos, plans, process, badger medicine, upcoming posts - “Moon Photos, Moon Haikus and Links to Past Posts”
September 3 - 🌓Inner troll talk, movement since justification of using the lunar calendar, mention of domination - “some updates and introductions and links”
August 27 - 🌑 update on mom, her recent decline into bed, a description of her communication, how she has always cared for herself, when I began working on this Table of Contents -”the words I didn't share last week”
August 18 - 🌗 Becka came to visit, photo essay of mom, no byline
August 11 - 🌕 Deer medicine, post from Family Camp, St. Croix State Park, Gen 2 doing dinner - “watch me practice”
August 5 - 🌓 visiting Atlanta for training, MLK, a little bit about HS&B, patience quote again - “making the beloved community requires strength and integrity”
July 28 - 🌑Red tent and Ray’s retreat from the world, hospice, patience quote - “musings on the end at the beginning of a lunation”
July 20 - 🌗Being in the boundary waters when dad died, the funeral and feeling close to dad, being hooked by mom’s inability to communicate, connecting mom to grandma, etc - “There is no before or after, there is just everything at once.”
July 13 - 🌕the pattern of flying back and forth, Grandpa Ole’s letters from the Alcan Highway, Huberman podcast on grief, writing letters to dad - “Relationships happen in three dimentions.”
July 6 - 🌓Dad’s death, link to his obituary and a copy of what I read at his funeral - “May his memory be for blessing.”
June 28 - 🌑our interfaith wedding with photos, cultural rivalry, choosing and combining our identities - “and my anniversary”
June 20 - 🌗summer solstice, special offer reminder, Hamilton Soundtrack ‘how to say goodbye’ - “My Father Figures, Juneteenth, and Summer Solstice”
Intermediary Post titled: Special Offer. posted June 15 and talked about my process.
June 14 - 🌕inviting people along for the journey, travel life, full moon confrontations, Biden, ask for subscriptions and accounting of what I do, pinned to top of home page - “a confrontation, a declaration, an ask”
Updates on Hospice, Podcasts, and Travel - posted June 8, numbered list including updates on Hospice, travel itinerary and TikTok links - “Intermediate Phase of Waxing Gibbous”
June 6 - 🌓trial and error phase of the moon, the pause and feedback, socialism and William Morris quotes - “Bringing in some details, local feedback, William Morris, trial and error.”
May 30 - 🌑Memorial Day and the usual ceremony at Kern’s cemetery, living everyday with wholesome integrity, gun safety and the honorable harvest - “upon returning home”
May 22 - 🌗 writing from Girona, things we did, Catalan vs Spanish, victims memorial graffiti - “Today is a travel day.”
May 15 - 🌕writing from Barcelona, problems with uploading photos - “Four Days in Paris and Full Moon over Barcelona”
May 8 - 🌓 mother’s day post, and the post about grandma’s death and grandma Francis and the cow - “To all the mothers out there, your work is important.”
April 30 - 🌑writing from Amsterdam hostel with photos - “A travelogue of sorts.”
April 23 - 🌗 writing about dad from dad’s, that last visit - “Updates on my Travels”
April 16 - 🌕the moon of letting go of best laid plans - “Watch Me Practice”
Intermediary post title: Links to Some New Posts - “Yoga Poetry Radio and the First Quarter Moon”
April 9 - 🌓 squirrel medicine, time with mom for B(W)ill’s birthday, update on Grandma, Nancy Griffith, pre-Norway trip and all that didn’t happen, giving myself the freedom to edit the archives, -“A letter filled with updates.”
April 1 - 🌑divination cards, Nordic Rune book, quoting my cousin Susie, universalness of animal language -“Raccoon Medicine and what lies ahead”
March 25 - 🌗 Grandma’s caregiving with lots of photos and TikToks - “grandma glenna's birthday”
Intermediary post - Yoga Poetry Radio - announcing the new podcast and links - “Some explanations and 2 practices”
March 18 - 🌕Braiding Sweetgrass - “books, names, and keeping the faith”
March 10 - 🌓Mom’s search for a diagnosis, Alzheimer’s - “Time is a Circle”
March 2 - 🌑My publication plan comes clearer. About my process. Dana model. Josh. - “third rotation is a charm”
February 23 - 🌗Mom with the feminist caucus, stories of mom’s sexual harassment, photo with Koryne Horbal and a link to her obituary. Second mention of boredom. - “Circa 1977 or 78?”
February 16 - 🌕moon schedule rationale and the feminine and masculine shape - “Sisterhood and Time”
February 9 - 🌓memory is slippery, mom and money, wheeling and dealing and misogyny - “feminism first thoughts”
Intermediary post - title: A Future Where Everything Is Included? including the link to RuPaul and 10% happier, Amir Locke’s killing, Pollyanna, gender fluidity, patience quote - “small intermediate waxing gibbous detour from ‘feminism’”
January 31 - 🌑Wu Wei and the water world and chakras - “The Cycle Begins Again”
intermediate phase - Moon Shadow - triggering, grandpa as a wheeler dealer - “Photo circa 2 weeks ago”
January 25 -🌗 death of tich Nhat Hanh, mom’s baths, 5 remembrances -“Awareness of Endings”
intermediate phase - Stretching cycles of years - pictures of the sisters at the same age with mom as the granddaughters.Heading off to retreat. - “Photos 2015 and 1982”
January 17 - 🌕 difficulty when mom first succumbed to the disease, my frustration with her, “while I watched (I never looked away)” - “Emphasizing Forgiveness”
In her words -some timeline of her disease and the sharing of her letter. and invitation to her retirement party. - “Mom’s retirement from the Nature Conservancy”
January 9 - 🌓process and difficulty, mom and self preservation, eye surgery and how we got here, still Alice - “Continuing with my Writing Practice”
mom and me -Uncle Dan’s quote that he wouldn’t have gone to college except for mom’s using, close look at the photo, - “photo circa 1970”
January 2 - 🌑Hannah Arendt, action and forgiveness, land acknowledgement, my heart is eloquent - “setting intentions”
Anything published before this date, January 2, 2022, were imported from my archives, either from my now defunct blog, WATCH ME PRACTICE, or other papers and publications.