Archive for July, 2008

Lugnasa Entry

A note to alert any interested that there is now an entry on Lughnasa in the Great Wheel pages.  Here’s an excerpt: This year Lughnasa falls on a new moon, the dark time associated with the Corn Moon.  In moon lore the new moon, the dark moon affords a time for travel inward along the […]

Read the rest of this entry »

Integrated Pest Management

78  bar falls 29.68  2mpn NW dew-point 65  sunrise5:57  sunset8:40  Summer New Moon (Corn Moon or State Fair Moon) NOAA awakened me with its trademark ululation, alerting me to the thunder storm watch declared for Anoka County.  Such notices are rare in the morning, mostly coming in the late afternoon as the heat of the […]

Read the rest of this entry »

SteppenWolf

66  bar rises 29.68  0mph NNW dew-point 61  sunrise 5:57 sunset 8:42 Summer Waning Crescent of the Thunder Moon Sierra Club.  Numbers and names. Strategic decisions about endorsements and targeting of races.  All constrained by a set of compliance rules that would cross the eyes of a medieval theologian.  Still, this is the medium and […]

Read the rest of this entry »

Radical Expectations

86  bar falls 29.66 3mph N  dew-point 59  sunrise 5:56 sunset 8:42 Summer Waning Crescent of the Thunder Moon Lughnasa, August 1st, comes on a new moon night.  This means the first harvest festival of the Celtic year (it ends just before the last harvest festival on October 31st, Samhain.) will coincide with the dark […]

Read the rest of this entry »

Onions on a Screen

80  bar steady 29.71  2mph W dew-point 61  sunrise 5:56  sunset 8:42 Summer Waning Crescent of the Thunder Moon Heaved sand out of the to be fire pit.  Still a lotta roots even after the stump grinder.  Sigh.  It will get finished, and before 8/18 as a birthday present for Kate and as a Woolly […]

Read the rest of this entry »

Separate Maya from Reality

77  bar steady 29.73  0mph NW  dew-point 62  sunrise 5:56  sunset 8:42 Summer Waning Crescent of the Thunder Moon “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities. In the expert’s mind there are few.” – Shunryu Suzuki Beginner’s mind.  It has such a resonance for me.  It reminds us that separating maya from reality is […]

Read the rest of this entry »

What a Tomato!

86  bar steady  29.66  2mph SSE dew-point 56  sunrise 5:55 sunset 8:43  Summer Waning Crescent of the Thunder Moon “Frisbeetarinism is the belief that when you die your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.”  George Carlin, RIP OMG!  Picked another Cherokee Purple tomato.  It weighs 1.5 pounds.  That’s quite a tomato.  These […]

Read the rest of this entry »

One Slice Covers a Salad Plate

82 bar falls 29.66 1mph E dew-point 73  sunrise 5:55 sunset 8:43 Summer Waning Crescent of the Thunder Moon Dead headed the lilium today, their bloom period is almost past.  Buddhists say flowers get their beauty from their transience.  Makes sense.  The flower symphony I outlined a few posts ago honors this notion, seeing the […]

Read the rest of this entry »

More Radical Than Thou

80  bar falls 29.66  0mph E  dew-point 76!  sunrise 5:55  sunset 8:43  Summer Waning Crescent of the Thunder Moon Jerry Stearns sent word that he worked with rebels in Central America and served a stint as a bodyguard for Rigoberta Minchu, the Mayan activist.  This reminded me, though I don’t think it was his intent, […]

Read the rest of this entry »

Vanished in the Smoke

76  bar falls 29.70  0mph SSE dew-point 67  sunrise 5:55 sunset 8:44  Summer Waning Crescent of the Thunder Moon Echoes from the past.  Over time certain folks reconnect out of the blue.  Jerry Stearns is one.  We were part of the movement at Ball State.  Hard to believe, but we had a radical wing at […]

Read the rest of this entry »