One of the ancient trails that got us into this mess: greed. Sometime a while ago, I listened to Alan Greenspan’s account of his years at the Fed. Three things struck me about it. First, he was a personal friend and long time follower of Ayn Rand. Second, he was a libertarian. Third, perhaps because […]
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Crash Under the Blood Moon
46 bar falls 30.22 6mph ENE windchill 43 Autumn Last Quarter of the Blood Moon It looks like the most violent moments of the credit crisis, stock market crash will have come under the aegis of the Blood Moon. Coincidence? I think so, but it’s still metaphorically powerful. All the trimmed hemerocallis in the back […]
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Made more phone calls. Liked it not at all, but I agreed to do them. Now I find out they won’t need me to make calls on November 4th. Darn. An old political junkie like me has more information available than I can possibly digest. The internet brings more and more and more, at finer […]
Read the rest of this entry »I Say, Not Until We’re in the Grave, Baby
Life has sped up since September. Tonight I drove in to represent the Political Committee with Bethann. It could have been a long drive for little result, but the dialogue was good. The ex-com had an interest in the committee’s work. It pleased me to see that the table held more gray hairs than youngsters, […]
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Another busy week. Guess it’s a good thing we’re headed to Colorado on Saturday. Time for a rest. Yesterday I worked outside all morning, then took a nap, worked out and went to the Woollys at Paul’s house. We talked about love. Love was central to each of our lives and, we all agreed, to […]
Read the rest of this entry »A Good Shed, Cleaned
You know that garden shed that appeared in some of the orchard pictures? Jon built it for us quite a while back and a good shed it is. Like most sheds and their smaller inside counterparts, closets, the stuff fairy goes around sprinkling this and that until one day, ten years later, you discover a […]
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Truck unloaded, then filled up with 6 bales of straw. All the outside plants inside. The morning. Along with a few miscellaneous things: watering the orchard, deconstructing a run of fence, talking with the neighbors over the back fence. Now. A nap.
Read the rest of this entry »Quack Will Inherit the Earth
42 bar steady 30.28 0mph WNW windchill 42 Autumn Waxing Gibbous Blood Moon That damned quack. It has begun to overtake our new plantings. So, purity to the wind. If it warms up to 60 degrees, we’ll hit it with Roundup. Then again. And, probably, given the tenacious qualities of quack grass, again next spring. […]
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quick note: Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.” – Friedrich von Schiller The silly season does not present intelligence at its best. At its worst it illustrates Schiller on TV, in newspapers and on front lawns. Only three weeks of campaign ads to go.
Read the rest of this entry »The Ancient Trail of Gratitude
quick note: Boy, the pace of life accelerated with the coming of autumn. This last week it felt like I’d gone back to full-time employment. I’m glad the week-end is here. Mine is a small life, no encyclopedia entries or feistschrifts, no monuments. Ordinary. I’ve been lucky so far. The major stumbles I made got […]
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