Fall and the RBG Moon Kiss the Ground. Netflix. Not a huge fan of documentaries. Not sure why. I love fiction, not non-fiction books though I read them from time to time. But this one. Recommended by long time friend Tom Crane. Didn’t say much new, maybe nothing for me, but it pulled my heart. […]
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Greenman
Lughnasa and the Lughnasa Moon Tuesday grateful: The Lughnasa moon just setting below Black Mountain. That one violet volunteering near our front steps. The daisies. The faint whoosh of folks going to work. Ruth. Her eagerness to see us. Their garden and her joy in it. Seeing Patty yesterday. Banking. Socrates, the teller. Gardening. At […]
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Imbolc Maiden Moon found by buddy Tom Crane’s daughter, Amber, in the Portland, Oregon area.
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Imbolc New (Bloodroot) Moon Took a walk along the road that goes around the Monastery. A beautiful day with a blue sky and sun. The sun has, like me, been on retreat this last week, and it seems to have returned bright and shiny, ready to get on with its job of sending us truly […]
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Samhain Waxing Moon of the Winter Solstice Hmmm. The ablative absolute and the passive periphrastic did not get put straight into my brain. I stumbled through my lesson today, learning by mistake, a common method for me. Still, I added a few more verses of Ovid to my translated column, down to 52. Greg is […]
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Fall Waxing Harvest Moon With Latin, the Baroque and a sermon on the future of liberal thought all coming up this week and the next, plus the horticultural fall chores: plant bulbs, clean up, harvest the last of the vegetable crop and care for the bees, I react strongly to the recent closing down of […]
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Summer Waxing Grandchildren Moon We are well past midsummer here in the northern latitudes. The garden’s peak bearing season will commence although we have already had blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, currants, garlic, lettuce, greens, onions, parsnips, beets and sugar snap peas. Ahead of us are tomatoes, green peppers, potatoes, more greens, onions, beets, lettuce, butternut squash, […]
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Summer Waning Strawberry Moon It’s been done, I know. Still, I’d like to put in a call for a 2nd American revolution. Oh, ok, I don’t care what number it is. I’ll settle for another American revolution. My American revolution has a bit of Norman Rockwell, a touch of Helen and Scott Nearing, more than […]
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Beltane Waning Flower Moon The peas and turnips and beets and new onions are up and wriggling toward the sky. I planted all of the hydroponic plants today with the exception of the cucumbers. They go in tomorrow. This was satisfying, putting in plants I grew myself from heirloom seeds. The next satisfaction will come […]
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Reimagine
Samain Moon of the Winter Solstice Jon sent these two links. Wish I’d had’em when I owned that farm up near Nevis, Minnesota. I might still be up there, motoring around on some of these very clever inventions. They show what an ingenious […]
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