KALLISTI’s Year-End Recap

At the close of the calendar year, I would like to pause and link you to eight posts that I would like to highlight from this year. (Did these really all come out in 2023? It's been a long year ...) After the list, I have a few other end-of-year things to add. Scaffolding Platonic …

Happy Solstice!

Today, I made lussekatter (recipe at the end of the post) in preparation for solstice offerings, and I have a bit more prep to do before the evening, including laundry from travel. I also found some coconut saffron ice cream. I'm not sure how to offer that to the Gods because it will melt too …

Praying to the Gods During Recent Travel

Kansas during Golden Hour, just beyond the sheets of torrential rain barrier reefing Kansas City, had turned a deep, iron red. The color stretched out in low sloping hills all around us, the speed limit was the highest I've ever seen, and I was anxiously awaiting missives from my pet-sitter about how my cats were …

The Furniture: A (Micro) Story

Allie, ever since moving into her own space, had felt a steadily-growing panic that was not just the neck pain she had from sleeping on the bare floor every night. While still with her parents, she could have blamed them for the lack of furniture in their house, but now — living alone — it …

Decompressing from 2023 and Thinking Ahead to 2024

I have a confession to make about 2023: I abandoned my yearly goal planning in late October or early November, just after reviewing it and realizing that this year has changed so significantly that even my areas of focus are no longer what they were going in. Instead, I opened up the worksheet I use …

Proclus in Tim. Book II, 376-378

the world in all its goodnessmoving from moment to momentits former waters first a memorythen a calm oblivion of generationsin a thousand years perhapswe will be young enough to saywhat did we learn amidst the ruinsof ourselves and the broken monumentswhat did we learn when displacedfrom who we are, before fatigueset in, as our bones …

For Giving Tuesday: Putting the International Rescue Committee in Focus

There is a lot going on in the world right now. As we think forward to Giving Tuesday in a few weeks, I want to put a plug in for the International Rescue Committee. IRC is connected to physicist Albert Einstein and evolved out of his efforts to secure safety for people fleeing Nazi Germany. …

In Gratitude

On the first day of November, following a day of storms in both a literal and metaphorical sense, I was brought to wonder by a rainbow. It was a Wednesday, and I had to mind a passage from Proclus' Parmenides commentary that I had only just reread — "I am ready at your service, Parmenides,'' …

Short musings on Battlestar Galactica (and a few questions)

When I was much younger than I am now, I wrote a post on a blog that has long since passed away (something I reposted later on) about Battlestar Galactica, the reboot series that aired on what was then the SciFi channel during my senior year of high school (the first episode aired in October …