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As a former counseling student, I do like the concept of combining embodied awareness and cooking as a practice for being present and mindful. But I also get that the term "embodied cooking" may not resonate with everyone. With "kitchen witch," I do love witchy things, but at the same time... I'm also starting to feel burned out on witchy things, if that makes sense. If people are connecting with that better, though, I'm all for it!

I try not to pay much attention to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominating process or debates. I was never insider enough even to get the long-form critic nominating form, except for two years in the 1990s. I did write-in votes for doo-wop groups like Vito & the Salutations. But when I heard that Warren Zevon was nominated as one of the finalists last week, I found it bewildering that 1.

[Warning: The following essay will contains spoilers for Warrior Nun seasons 1 and 2.] Beatrice’s struggle in Warrior Nun is extremely personal. While at first glance Beatrice appears to be just another member of the Order of the Cruciform Sword (OCS), she quickly takes center stage as a core character in the organization. This comes in the form of her friendship with Ava, which is quickly established in Season 1, Episode 3.

[Warning: This essay contains spoilers for Warrior Nun seasons 1 and 2. This essay is also being written as the last in my Warrior Nun character essay series. I highly recommend reading everything else I’ve written on this blog about Warrior Nun before diving into this one. With that out of the way: Please enjoy “Warrior Nun: How Ava Became A Hero”.] Ava is Warrior Nun’s bravest hero. And her evolution into a hero is a perfect journey.

Last week a video went viral on TikTok that featured a “hot” Houthi pirate apparently attacking a cargo ship off the coast of Yemen. Everyone was talking about it. The video I saw on Twitter had nearly 25 million views as of Monday afternoon. And practically every media outlet in the world was reporting about the “hot Houthi pirate,” identified as Rashid Al Haddad, a 19-year-old Yemeni man. The fact that my brain immediately began to wonder if Al Haddad’s virality was an Operation Mockingbird-style plot by the CIA, which has a long history of media manipulation, is something that I will (for now) attribute to my own cynicism, which runs pretty deep these days (for good reason).

Within the first few minutes of the pilot episode of Dance Moms, a Lifetime produced reality show that first aired in 2011, a minister bursts through the studio doors into the middle of  practice to yell at Abby Lee Miller, the former dancer turned instructor and studio owner turned reality star. The minister is also a Dance Mom, and she’s livid that her daughter Regan was kicked out of acrobatics class for wearing socks.

Whether he has been fully replaced physically as a clone or figuratively "replaced" with a new, higher perspective, I'd like to add to the conspiracy: Barbara Marciniak, who channels the Pleiades, has been talking about clones for a while. She refers to Biden as "Nacho" because he is 'not Joe'. She talks about how even Trump has his own clones. I have yet to hear her talk about RFK Jr. But, once you make it higher in the ranks, you're taken aside and shown you your own clone.

If you have access to enough information, you can draw inferences that let you see what had long been hidden. As I make final corrections to my manuscript for Jimmy, I noticed something I had previously overlooked. In October 1956, the journalist Maurice Zolotow, then best known as a contributor to the Saturday Evening Post, published one of the most scathing indictments of James Dean ever committed to print. In a syndicated newspaper article, Zolotow claimed that he needed to save a generation of young people from the “evil” of James Dean by revealing the truth behind the myth.

I’m very sorry for your loss, and from your description, the loss of such a Patriot & HealthCARE professional. At a time when the world needs every forthright, outspoken health warrior available, he will be sorely missed. My sincere condolences to you, Dr. Alexander, to his family, & to all of his friends and colleagues who remain in the fight. ❤️🙏🏻 Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZminoJq7b7%2FUm6qtmZOge6S7zGinrppfpa6tsdeapZ2domS9cMPArGSjraOperW7y51kraCRqXquxYydnJqqXZu%2FqrHNnXaurJ2UwLDB0ZycdqifqMFnr86mpJ6mpKiKtb7Unl2urJ2UuqawyK6kdq%2BVlw%3D%3D