{"id":14082,"date":"2021-08-07T12:36:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T19:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atheopaganism.wordpress.com\/?p=14082"},"modified":"2021-08-07T12:36:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T19:36:22","slug":"riffs-on-a-meme-enchanting-the-mundane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/?p=14082","title":{"rendered":"Riffs on a Meme: Enchanting the Mundane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, in the weekly Atheopagan Zoom mixer gathering, I was exposed to an Internet meme that really resonated. It is this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/meme.jpg?w=226\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14084\" width=\"332\" height=\"303\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is so completely an Atheopagan approach to life! Turning pedestrian tasks into romantic and thrilling adventures is a way to add happiness and joy, and to retool our mental approach to them to enhance our motivation and focus. Nothing supernatural required: just a reframing and a playful approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Currently, I am stuck on trying to get a new job. I&#8217;m still so burned by what happened at the last one that I haven&#8217;t been able to bring myself even to update my resume yet. But I have to do it, and get to work on starting to find new employment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Something tells me that reimagining my resume as a +4 Scroll of Persuasion and Charisma will help me a lot in getting down to the work of revising it. The process of making such a thing sounds cool and fun, rather than dry and tedious. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Give it a try! What tasks have you been avoiding that can be reimagined as enchanting adventures? What tiresome, repetitive chore can you envision as a magical act?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Thanks to Addie M. for the meme suggestion! Art by Tony Andreas Rudolph<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, in the weekly Atheopagan Zoom mixer gathering, I was exposed to an Internet meme that really resonated. It is this: This is so completely an Atheopagan approach to life! Turning pedestrian tasks into romantic and thrilling adventures is a way to add happiness and joy, and to retool our mental approach to them to enhance our motivation and focus. Nothing supernatural required: just a reframing and a playful approach. Currently, I am stuck on trying to get a new job. I&#8217;m still so burned by what happened at the last one that I haven&#8217;t been able to bring myself even to update my resume yet. But I have to do it, and get to work on starting to find new employment. Something tells me that reimagining my resume as a +4 Scroll of Persuasion and Charisma will help me a lot in getting down to the work of revising it. The process of making such a thing sounds cool and fun, rather than dry and tedious. Give it a try! What tasks have you been avoiding that can be reimagined as enchanting adventures? What tiresome, repetitive chore can you envision as a magical act? Thanks to Addie M. for the meme suggestion! Art by Tony Andreas Rudolph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-techniques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}