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		<title>A prayer for Nefertem</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 16:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard rain yesterday, although fortunately it had eased off each time I had to go outside; a hard month last month, although not as hard as it was last year at this time. I don&#8217;t know why I tend to go off the rails in April. Maybe it&#8217;s all that energy, pushing outward to grow, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unexpected perfume</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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Last Friday I went back up to the library to renew a book (The Role of the Chantress in Ancient Egypt, if you&#8217;re curious). By the corner where I was overwhelmed by fragrance, the magnolias had come out, their flowers flaring white and dazzling in the sun. And I found myself glad that I&#8217;d been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing home</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally went to see James Cameron&#8217;s Avatar last weekend. It was splendidly done, no question, a visual spectacular, showing a satisfying triumph of beauty and spirituality over corporate greed and blindness. I enjoyed it greatly, and yet I came away from it not feeling profoundly moved. My reaction may have been colored by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten days of joy: Day 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[From today, the new moon, through the Feast of Bast Guards the Two Lands on December 25, I'll be doing posts for Ten Days of Joy. This was an exercise for the Shemsu and Remetj of the House of Netjer, a couple of years back, which honored Bast by sharing with each other daily that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Praising the beauty of Set</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After yesterday&#8217;s post on the gifts of Set&#8217;s storms, a thought occurred to me, although it&#8217;s actually rooted in a realization from the day of the snowfall itself: from standing in the shrine room, having just offered candle flame and rum-flavored iced tea to Set, gazing out the window at the darkening afternoon, and being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After the snowfall</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post I was talking about the darkness of winter &#8212; and then the day after that was dazzling, brilliant with sun on the half-melted, lacy snow crust and on the jewels of ice and wet snow clinging to the trees, the road shining white with salt and the sky a crystalline, piercing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glimpses</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2009/10/15/glimpses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today on the drive to work my eye was caught by one of those maples that turn palest peach in the fall &#8212; just a glimpse, its leaves in the early morning half light like faint candle flames, luminous and hazy in the shadows beneath the taller trees. Soon their color will shift, soon the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing anew</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2009/10/13/seeing-anew/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a good weekend &#8212; a friend and fellow Kemetic priest came to visit, and we went to the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and also simply spent time together talking about our practices. On Sunday, after the grocery shopping, I usually make offerings to my Beloveds, the God of the Year (currently Djehuty), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everything praises itself</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2009/10/07/everything-praises-itself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went out for a walk along the canal today &#8212; a perfect windy autumn day, leaves flying, the sunlight glittering from a thousand ripples on the riffling water, a day that was made for joy. And as I walked, I began to pray to Heru-hekenu: &#8220;May You lift me up. May You lift me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I want</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2009/09/17/what-i-want/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wep Ronpet is well past, and the season of the Inundation is underway. The golden rain trees around the fountain plaza are starting to turn, shedding their first delicate yellow leaves, living up to their name. This morning was wrapped in gray, a promise of drizzle, a heavy overcast that intensified even the smallest spots [...]]]></description>
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