Cartoon by Shea Thomas at Noland-Comics
PNC Solstice Gift Picks – Kids, military, books, art
Looking for the perfect Solstice gift for your favorite Pagan, Heathen, or Polytheist? PNC-Minnesota’s 2011 Solstice Gift Picks with expert advice, reviews, and recommendations for the latest movies, books, and other holiday gifts and treats can help. Today’s picks include book suggestions from Elysia Gallo of Llewellyn, stunning art and jewelry picks, Solstice cards, kids gifts, gifts for Military Pagans, and ideas for the TechnoMages on your list.
Be sure to check out the section on sales and special gifts offered at local Pagan stores. When possible, support your community by buying local or buying direct from the artist.
For Art Mavens
If you are looking for some thing WOW! that is also sacred, consider this White Wold Headress from Nature Punk. At $1200 it isn’t inexpensive, but at least you can be assured the animal wasn’t killed for it’s fur. Nature Punk sources their fur, teeth, and claws from roadkill, Fish and Game, or second-hand sources – ensuring that no animals are needlessly killed for the sake of the art. The artist believes that no part of any creature should go to waste if a purpose can be found for it. Nature Punk has many other wearable works of art in their etsy store.
Red Tail Arts offerings run the gamut from jewelry to runes. Each piece is handcrafted by Amber Roth, who splits her time between her artistic endeavors and co-hosting a Pagan Podcast. I love her work and had a difficult decision to make on what item to grab a photo of. The incrediblepainted feather earrings? (I want those) The painted animal totems on quahog shells? Antler runes? Amber necklaces? I’ll stay with the wolf theme and show you one of her painted feathers. Her etsy store is brand new, she’s still loading it all up, so you can be sure the gift you buy isn’t something people have seen for years. Painted feathers start at $20, earrings are $20, and totems are $5.
PNC Solstice Gift Picks – treats, movies, music, nature
Looking for the perfect Solstice gift for your favorite Pagan, Heathen, or Polytheist? PNC-Minnesota’s 2011 Solstice Gift Picks with expert advice, reviews, and recommendations for the latest movies, books, and other holiday gifts and treats can help. In part 1 film reviewer Peg Aloi’s offers her movie suggestions, we look at gifts for the foodie in our lives, music suggestions off the beaten path by Jason Pitz-Waters, and few ideas for the Eco-conscious Pagan by No Unsacred Place bloggers John Beckett and Eli Effinger-Weintraub.
Be sure to check out the section on sales and special gifts offered at local Pagan stores. When possible, support your community by buying local or buying direct from the artist. Tomorrow we’ll get book suggestions from Elysia Gallo of Llewellyn, stunning art and jewelry picks, Solstice cards, kids gifts, gifts for Military Pagans, and ideas for the TechnoMages on your list.
For the Foodie
vegan and gluten-free lasagna
Pure Market Express
Pure Market Express is a small business located in Chaska, Minnesota that also ships food anywhere in the USA. They specialize in gluten free and raw vegan, breakfasts, lunches, dinners, desserts and snacks made from organic fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. Even though I’m a meat eater I’ve had many of their items and they are spectacular – especially their stuffed portabella mushrooms. Pricy, but worth it. You can order specific items for the foodie in your life, or you can purchase a gift certificate online.
Persephone Lollipop
The Groovy Baker
7 pops of one flavor for $10
Amber Roth turned me onto this candy making genius and I’ve already ordered an insane number of lollipops. Of special interest to Pagans, you can order a lolli with names like Bacchus (dried Bing cherries with a Merlot reduction) or Persephone (tart pomegranate flavor mingled with creamy, luscious vanilla studded with dried sweetened pomegranate seeds). Or you may opt for one of the other treats, such as the Orange blossom and Thyme sucker or the Pompeii lollipop, with honey and figs.
Harmony Tribe Restorative Justice Circle Update – Editorial
A Restorative Justice circle took place facilitated by Crystal Blanton, guest at last summers Sacred Harvest Festival (SHF) in August. This Restorative Justice (RJ) Circle was specifically to aid Harmony Tribe(HT) and its festivant community to move beyond the real ‘hurt and harm’ the individuals, organization, and festival had felt over the past year. When I wrote about it, I also committed to updates as the Harmony Tribe (RJ) process evolved. I wrote then as a Harmony Tribe member, and as of this editorial, am now a member of the 2012 Harmony Tribe Council, as one of 15 Council Members at Large.
The purpose of this RJ Circle was:
“… to restore; to restore a sense of safety in a loving and empathetic community. We are not here to blame, or to cast judgment on who was right or wrong. It is a about how we can support our community together and heal the hurt and harm that has been caused by a series of events. “
And Crystal summarized the RJ Circle with:
“ What happens, Where do we go from here? We can not fix everything that has happened. We can not restore relationships without everyone present. We can restore what is here. We have not lost our community… what I have seen is that with time ,work, and a commitment to values, and the mirroring of those to each other, a community can be healed. “
The RJ Circle came forth with several Collective Agreements, promises each person present made to the Harmony Tribe community. These were jointly arrived at by consensus, and individually affirmed by those present as their own commitments. These were to facilitate this community to “move forward in the healing process with safety and trust”.
The agreements are:
- We will aid the process of developing commonly defined principles and values, and the primary purpose for our community (HT) so that the HT council can work for the whole of our community.
- Define how Harmony Tribe (and its community) can participate in the processes of community, beyond HT the organization.
- The HT Community commits to participate as they can – to show up.
- Find ways to solicit community support and input.
- Commit to developing a means for mentoring or transferring knowledge or roles within the organization.
How has Harmony Tribe and its community progressed toward meeting these commitments?
Community Notes; November 21-27
Thursday is a traditional American feast day. Beyond that, you might not want to think about it too deeply and just enjoy the food.
If you do feel the need the to shop this weekend (as many people will) please shop local and support small businesses, such as metaphysical shops. PNC-Minnesota’s Solstice Gift Guide comes out this week.
Joseph A. Amara, co-owner of Magus Books & Herbs has launched a new blog radio show. You can listen at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/edgemagazine/2011/11/19/edge-mysteries-beyond-with-joseph-a-amara
The Eye of Horus is hiring, and will accept applications until Tuesday. For details, check: http://eyeofhorus.biz/store/hiring-11-11.htm
Pagan Newswire Collective - Minnesota Bureau 