Spring Awakening Moon We have an injured dog. Hilo, our smallest whippet, and a friend for many years, got in a scrap with an animal, a squirrel or a rabbit, and got a nasty wound below her right lip and another, larger one underneath her jaw. She didn’t come for quite a while yesterday, we […]
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A Traitorous Thought
Spring Awakening Moon (the moon phase is now available on this page elsewhere) I saw an outdoor digital thermometer yesterday, on some bank, that read 76. 76. We have 76 predicted for a high today, too. 76. We have the moist, earthy smell and approximate temperature of Hawai’i. 76. (Molokini on a day when the […]
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Spring Mostly Full Awakening Moon Drove out to Hopkins, through it on Excelsior, then made a left on Shady Oak Road and apparently crossed the line just into Minnetonka. Rothburg Distributing, who are the manufacturer’s rep for Sub-Zero, Asko and Wolf kitchen appliances, open their kitchen classroom up to the UofM once a year and […]
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Spring Full Awakening Moon I spent a good part of today carrying former split rails from their storage place to positions along the bottom of our chain link fence facing north. After I placed them one by one, end to end, I took out a roll of baling wire–it really is an all purpose fix […]
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Spring Full Awakening Moon “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.” – e.e cummings This has always been top of the list for me, […]
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Spring Full Awakening Moon Liberal II: The Present is now on the website. Executive summary: We live in a world dominated by liberal tendencies and that are, therefore, best understood and managed by a self-consciously liberal politics and faith. Let the games begin. The rite of spring has struck 7 Oaks. We have received the […]
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Spring Waxing Awakening Moon Gave Liberal II this morning. Lot of conversation, a little consternation. Best piece was a conversation with Ian Boswell, the music director. We discussed the limits of rationality and the integration of reason and soulfulness that great music represents. He pointed to the late sonatas of Beethoven. This has given me […]
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Spring Waxing Awakening Moon Out the door to the grocery store. It must be Saturday. Finished revising the presentation for tomorrow morning and I’ll post it later today. Kate’s off at work, a now unusual Saturday for her. She’s begun experiencing the old aches and pains, the ones from before the surgery that were brought […]
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The Sparrow
Spring A Near Full Awakening Moon Just saw La Vie En Rose, the story of Edith Piaf. Kate was familiar with the story, I was not. Her life began in abandonment by both of her parents, one after the other, a childhood in a brothel, her grandmother’s, a life singing on the streets until her […]
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