If you’ve ever set a New Year’s resolution or any type of recurring personal goal, then you probably know that the likelihood of consistently hitting it eventually falls to zero when stretched over a long enough timeline. We’re good at our goals for a few weeks, maybe for a few months, but a year? Multiple years? It starts to get harder and harder.
A few years ago, I set a personal goal to write as much as possible. I wasn’t sure how that would manifest at first… but one day, I decided to write a Monday newsletter. And then I did it again the next week. And the week after that.
Somehow it just became the routine.
There have been well over a hundred Mondays since then, and I haven’t missed a single one. Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays this writer from the swift completion of his appointed rounds. I don’t take holidays, either. If Christmas or Thanksgiving falls on a Monday, by the gods, I will still send you one of these stupid updates.
I’m sure I’ll miss one eventually. Hopefully when that happens, you’ll forgive me… but for now… I’m at 100% consistency. If you woke up on a Monday without receiving this… well, maybe it really isn’t a Monday after all.
Good morning and happy Monday, friends! And happy early October… the spookiest of all months.
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One interesting thing about this time of year is that there is an uptick in the number of emails we receive as a coven. Seekers are out there seeking… but usually we get at least one completely crazed email as well, like someone claiming they’re being chased by the forces of evil. I can’t wait to see what comes in this year.
Selene and I had a prison ministry visit scheduled for Saturday, but it got canceled at the last minute. On Friday we received an email that the facility was on lock down for the weekend and all chapel events were postponed.
Instead, we wound up at the West Palm Beach GreenMarket.
There’s a guy there that sells spices. They’re amazing. He probably has every type of spice you could possibly imagine.
The market itself, however, was ridiculously crowded and hot. It felt much hotter than usual and the amount of people was giving me claustrophobia. At one point, it seemed like we were waiting in a long line… and that was only to walk down the street!
So we dipped out of the crowds and into an air-conditioned restaurant.
We found a place with these cute little bento box lunch specials.
And down an alley from the restaurant was an empty courtyard with a relaxing fountain. It was a really nice contrast from the crowded streets.
On Saturday evening, we continued our quest of trying to find the best local pizza in the West Palm beach area. This time we tried DeSano Pizzeria.
It was pretty tasty, don’t get me wrong, but a little pricey. Also not incredibly filling.
If you think you know who has the best pizza, please let me know. We’ll add it to our list.
On Sunday, we went out for a little lunch date.
We also started watching Monster: The Ed Gein Story on Netflix. It’s absolutely horrific and each episode just gets gradually more and more disturbing. Definitely give that a watch if you enjoy terrible things.
I am really close to finishing some initial edits to the next episode of M3, which features Erich and Alannah Brown and their book, Modern Hermeticism. You can probably expect to see the early release of that on Patreon later this week… and then the public release on YouTube sometime after.
Oh, speaking of books… did you see the exciting announcement I made on Facebook a few days ago? Don’t worry… I’ll be revealing more details next week on Wyrd Wednesday!
Well, that’s about all I have to say for now. I’ve got another week packed full of writing and homework to start.
Stay tuned for more soon!
Aerik Arkadian 
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