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Hello, wonderful witches! So very sorry for the delay getting today’s issue to all of you. I’m one of the very lucky 30 percent that got rebound Covid symptoms after taking the antivirals, so my brain is still a little mushy. But here we are, late and ready to go! Today’s issue is about kykeon, a potion associated with Demeter and Circe. You can try making your own with the two included recipes.

People often talk about something as “apocalyptic” or “the apocalypse.” Whenever they do, I often feel like saying, “You keep using that word, but I do not think it means what you think it means.” Share Now this literature, language, and its sociology is complex and contested by scholars. However, when we discuss the Book of Revelation, Daniel, Mark 13, or Romans 8, consult writings in the Dead Sea Scrolls, it is useful to have a basic idea of all things ‘apocalyptic.

Paper title and link to paper: Shoulder range of movement in the general population: age and gender stratified normative data using a community-based cohort (Gill et al., 2020) Why this blog post may be useful to you: Overview of the paper: In rehabilitation of a shoulder injury, active range of movement may be one objective measure we seek to improve. The question is, what is a “normal” range of movement? We may have the contralateral limb that we could compare to, however, is comparing to a contralateral limb accurate?

As a bisexual man now polyamorous and firmly done with two straight marriages, I would say the appropriate characterization is not that bisexuals cannot be in a straight relationship, but that straights have a hard time being in a straight relationship with bisexuals. It's less pronounced with men than with women, but comfort with dating a bisexual is still in the double digit net negative with men (-17), whereas with women it's -34 and strong discomfort is -29.

Lots of discussion about coats around me lately. Its a category I find hard to think about until I’m convinced fall weather is 100% behind us. But its time! The beauty of coat season, is that it’s sort of the only item that matters. It’s the other three seasons I’m mixing, matching and layering. Come coat season, I mostly wear Everlane men’s sweaters, Levis 501s, a durable boot and a wild array of outerwear.

Farm share and CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) are terms that describe a partnership between a farm and the people who consume the farm’s food. By participating in this relationship, members essentially buy a share of a farm’s harvest before the season begins, understanding that unpredictable conditions such as weather and labor supply can affect the harvest. The security of a contract eliminates the need for farmers to invest time marketing their produce during the busy growing season, enabling them to concentrate solely on producing food.

As my own novel launches, I find myself thinking about the concept of the “Ticking Clock” in literature. This is a literary device that amps up the tension in stories and also marks time. It’s like an alarm waiting to go off in the characters’ minds and in the reader’s mind. These clocks can be very obvious, like a literal bomb ticking, or an impending date, or an important deadline approaching.

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There was a long time in college football where the term “pro-style offense” was wildly misused. It’s often been used for a traditional approach involving the utilization of a fullback and an inline tight end by the offense, long after the pro teams in the NFL would rely on those sets. The observation you could do more damage in the run game by playing with three receivers to spread defenses out rather than trying to insert a fullback at the line of scrimmage every snap was made safely before the spread really took over in college football.