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Toward Saturday, I could feel my brain settling down, and I had a good writing day on Sunday, which is always promising. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the things I&#8217;ve learned from my witchcraft is that liminal states always feel weird, and that forcing myself into them or through them rarely works well. Working with them, however, helps a lot. 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A lot of feeling scattered, and telling myself that was okay. Toward Saturday, I\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/2020\/witch-in-practice-week-27\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[89,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-being-a-witch","category-witch-in-practice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11EQH-Zz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3885,"url":"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/2020\/witch-in-practice-week-34\/","url_meta":{"origin":3817,"position":0},"title":"Witch in Practice: Week 34","author":"jenett","date":"May 11, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Not a lot new this week - I hit \"I am trying to do way too much stuff, let's stop and see what actually makes sense here\" early last week. 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