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I have to get back on some kind of diet.  I am afraid to get back on the scale.  So I am thinking that I need to start with simple steps.  Oatmeal every day for lunch.  Lots of salads.  Gotta get back to walking every day.  This is ridiculous, I know better than this.  Granted, the Rona gives me an excuse, but sooner or later I have to put down the excuse and get back to work.

I am sorry Milwaukie Beer Store, but our relationship has to end.  I am now swearing another, superseding mickle oath that only alcohol made by hand will pass these lips.  No more cheating on the original mickle oath.

Screed:

I think that a rejection of Western-Style Christianity in toto will have to be the first real step in the search for magic.  I think that a lot of people say this, but even among the group that propounds this route don't realize just how completely western/judeo/christian thought is embedded in every aspect of our society.  

The first step to finding magic will be taking apart a lifetime of beliefs and examining each one by one.  Then maybe when the walls of belief are down I can choose the stones that actually work for the goal that I have in mind.

I have to be careful though.  One of the old-time sayings that are the capital-T Truth is that you don't tear down a fence until you figure out why it was put there in the first place.