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# wizduum.net

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## Posts

- [Blogs](https://wizduum.net/blogs/)
- [Not Too Busy For Joy](https://wizduum.net/not-too-busy-for-joy/) - Yesterday, I visited the newly forming Shantideva Monastery in Castro Valley for the first time. It's small and lovely, and I am in awe of Thay Từ-Lực's vision in purchasing land in the very expensive Bay Area so that Plum Village practitioners here can be well supported by monastics and have opportunities to come together
- [Generation 1.5](https://wizduum.net/generation-1-5/) - Growing up the daughter of Chinese immigrants to the U.S., a core part of my identity was as a “second generation” Chinese American. I was therefore more than surprised one day, while conversing with a fellow daughter of Chinese immigrants, to learn that she saw herself as “first generation” Chinese American. Wha? “No,” I said,

## Pages

- [Welcome](https://wizduum.net/)
- [Calendars](https://wizduum.net/calendars/) - Earth-Based Liturgical Calendar
- [Water Communion](https://wizduum.net/water-communion/) - IntroductionIt's the Autumnal Equinox and fall is in the air. Daylight is receding, harvests are being brought in, and folks are coming back from summer vacations - it is a time of ingathering. The UU ritual of Water Communion is preserved here. While the rituals before and after this, Blessing of the Loaves and Festival
- [Flower Communion](https://wizduum.net/flower-communion/) - Introduction It's the Vernal Equinox, spring should have sprung by now, and nothing screams spring more than blooming flowers. The UU ritual of Flower Communion is preserved here. While the rituals before and after this, Blessing of the Seeds and Festival of the First Fruits, are about new life and fertility, the original flower communion
- [Festival of the First Fruits](https://wizduum.net/festival-first-fruits/) - Introduction This ritual gets its name from the Jewish festival of Shavuot, the Feast of the First Fruits. This is traditionally the time when the first harvests occur and are celebrated. While spring is a hopeful time of new life and new begnnings, it is also a more tempestuous time when late and/or unseasonal frosts
- [Festival of the Ancestors](https://wizduum.net/festival-ancestors/) - Introduction As the harvest season comes to an end, it is a time of both fruition and death - fruits such as apples lay heavy on the branches and squashes such as pumpkins are at their full weight, but the leaves are turning and falling off baring branches and the vines are whithering. The days
- [Blessing of the Seeds](https://wizduum.net/blessing-seeds/) - Introduction There may or may not still be frost on the ground depending on where you live, but this is traditionally the time of year when we look forward to spring (hence the Groundhog Day ritual), and new beginnings. Chinese New Year is celebrated very near this time, where offerings are made to the gods
- [Blessing of the Loaves](https://wizduum.net/blessing-loaves/) - Introduction Remember the Blessing of the Seeds back in the beginning of spring? This is the mirror image ritual six months later as we begin autumn. the first wave of harvests. I don't expect many folks to grow their own grains, mill their own flour, and then bake bread, but this again is to remind
- [Day of Resolutions](https://wizduum.net/day-resolutions/) - Introduction Winter solstice is the shortest day/longest night of the year. From this day forth until the summer solstice, light overtakes dark, the sun returns. Hence, it is generally thought of as the beginning of the solar year. The Jewish new year, while it occurs during a different season, is a time for atonement of
- [Day of Reflections](https://wizduum.net/day-reflections/) - Introduction Summer solstice is the longest day/shortest night of the year. It is the sun at its greatest strength but also the mark of its decline. From this day forth until the winter solstice, light wanes into darkness. There is still a lot of growing yet to do but now in the heat of summer
- [Earth-Based Liturgical Calendar](https://wizduum.net/liturgical-calendar/) - This proposed liturgical calendar is intended to help draw us closer to the cycles of Mother Earth and remind us of our ties to the land, to each other, and to our ancestors. There are eight Observances corresponding to the beginning/end and peak of the four seasons. Holidays from other traditions that correspond either exactly

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