Apologies to my fellow Scribes for not getting to all of the wonderful posts you have written this week. So much great material, so little time!

I started my Intro to Psych class at Harvard this week. It is WEIRD being back in a first-year level class. As I've been doing my reading assignments there has been much eye-rolling and silly text messaging to my friends. As a joke, I thought about changing my "Currently Reading" box to Fundamentals of Psychology: The Brain, The Person, The World. (I'm such a smartass.) I know it's a necessary evil on my path to an MA in Depth Psychology, but I'm finding this class, to quote Danya, "unintentionally hilarious." Rest assured, dear friends, I'd rather be blogging!

That said, there were a few posts that stood out for me as I tried to at least be aware of what everyone was up to this week:

The Autumnal Equinox and the Wiccan Sabbat Mabon are this week. I have to recognize Sojourner at A Pagan Sojourn for her lovely Mabon post and great new Autumn blog dressing! Grian at Panthea shares her tradition with us in her post Tridean Autumnal Equinox. I always appreciate when sister bloggers undertake the daunting task of distilling into one post a meaningful and coherent presentation on a topic about which there is so much to say.

Sojourner also has a very thoughtful post on Witchcraft Today and Pagan Priesthood.

Shawn Anthony tells us How to Make Paper Towel Stick Figures at lo fi tribe. I had to giggle and tell him that he's really making corn dollies.

Danya at Jerusalem Syndrome tells us that What the World Don't Need Now is HP's new "slimming effect" digital camera. Unintentionally hilarious indeed. But Danya goes on to present commentary on our culture of skinny from "historian and activist" Hanne Blank. I hadn't heard of her before, but Danya manages to capture the essence of her argument in one well-chosen quote. Maybe the camera is not so hilarious after all.

As one of the "others," I appreciated Jason Pitzi-Waters' post on The "Other" In The Survey, terrific commentary on the Baylor "Four Gods" survey. When I first read about the survey my first reaction was: "What, only four?" As Jason points out, the survey as a scientific exercise leaves much to be desired and once again we "others" shouldn't expect to be given much consideration. Thanks too, Jason, for the links to S. Brent Plate's article.

Mike at Unknowing Mind offers a Response to My Post on Karma. This is a nice continuation of the Interfaith Blog Event that he has undertaken with Sojourner at A Pagan Sojourn and Jon at Jesusfollowers Journal. Mike is my personal go-to guy for all matters Buddhist and I learn a lot from his thoughtful posts.

Happy Friday, New Moon, Autumn Equinox, Mabon, Rosh Hashanah everybody!

Posted by Angela-Eloise at 12:43 PM