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	<title>Gold of the Valley, Lapis of the River &#187; Thoughts and Reflections</title>
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		<title>A prayer for Nefertem</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/05/04/a-prayer-for-nefertem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 16:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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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>Hearts in flood</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/04/01/hearts-in-flood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My little brook is in full flood after all the rains. I love the waters of spring: the surging, overflowing streams; the springs that nourish the first searingly green new growth; the rainpools swallowing the fields, gray sheets mirroring the sky, their surfaces riffled by the passing winds, and in their depths the submerged grasses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unexpected perfume</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/03/22/unexpected-perfume/</link>
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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>Sweetness and light</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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In the wake of last weekend&#8217;s nor&#8217;easter, suddenly the daffodils have sprung up! It&#8217;ll be a while yet until they bloom, but not too much longer. And yesterday as I was out walking at lunchtime, there was the most amazing fragrance by the corner of the library. It stopped me right in my tracks and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hints of spring</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/01/28/hints-of-spring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, in the wake of the torrential downpours, a beautiful, burnished evening &#8212; the trees like bronze in the westering light, the woods warm and wet, filled with numinous pools reflecting the gold-tinged sky. And I thought, can this really be January? But then I realized with a shock that January is already [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing home</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/01/20/seeing-home/</link>
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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>Beginning a new decade</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/01/01/beginning-a-new-decade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago, I was at the peak of my fandom phase, heavily engaged in writing fanfiction and moderating a mailing list, and without much at all happening in the way of spirituality. Five years ago, I was halfway through the House of Netjer&#8217;s beginners&#8217; course, still not sure of where it was going to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bast guards the Two Lands</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2009/12/27/bast-guards-the-two-lands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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A major part of the process of settling and growing in Kemetic religion is figuring out one&#8217;s calendar. With some hundreds of known festivals filling almost every day of the year, it can be entirely overwhelming! Most people seem to prune it down to a handful of focused observances, with at best a quick candle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten days of joy: Day 1</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2009/12/16/ten-days-of-joy-day-1/</link>
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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>After the snowfall</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2009/12/07/after-the-snowfall/</link>
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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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