Beltane                  Waxing Dyan Moon

Spent this morning planting egg plant, building trellises for the peas and getting familiar with the current state of the garden.

A note from my sister said the presentation of her thesis work in Athens (Greece) went well.  Quite an accomplishment.  Way to go, Mary!

Still in a post-vacation fuzz, lost naps catching up with me.

Got the docent sign up form for next year and it has to be in by tomorrow.  Since it’s a first come, first choice deal, I’m not gonna get my first picks this year for the first time since I started as a guide back in 2001.  It means I’ll most likely miss touring the Louvre show.  Darn it.

Reading a book right now called the Lords of Finance.  It explains in detail the precursors to the great depression and the central bankers who made it worse.  I’m not sure why this kind of reading appeals to me, but it does.  The story so far shows the intimate linkage between World War I and the economic devastation wrought by it and the subsequent market failure in 1929.  Reparations by Germany and the damaged economies of France and Great Britain after the war created a chaotic finanical situation in which policy decisions by central banks factored more than ever before.  Some of those decisions made things a lot worse.