Mid-Summer New Honey Extraction Moon Tai chi. Finally, I made some progress. Slow, but sure. Be patient with yourself they told us at the first meeting. I’m glad they said that. I’ve needed it and still get upset, want to quit, but keep coming back. This is a commitment to a new way of being […]
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Imagination
Mid-Summer New Honey Extraction Moon “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein Logic revealed itself to me in Symbolic Logic I at Wabash College. Professor Larry Hackstaffe taught it and I struggled like a flopping fish for six weeks, right up to the first test. I […]
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Mid-Summer New Honey Extraction Moon Here’s a question to test your judgement. If you had an industrial application already noted for its 100% bad track record in all installations (sulfide mining), who might you call to cope with the negative fall out? What? Did you say Tony Hayward? Who’s he? You remember the Gulf Oil […]
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Mid-Summer New Honey Extraction Moon Kate and I bought a new vehicle yesterday, a Toyota Rav-4. Well, we picked out the things we wanted, left a deposit and now wait for the finding. This may not be big news in most families, but the last time we bought a new vehicle was 1999 and before […]
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Mid-Summer Waning Honey Flow Moon Mary came into town later last night after a rotten airline experience. Gee, is this something new? Today, we’ll have everyone here for at least a few hours. Diane’s plane leaves around 6:00 pm. Redesigning Ancientrails Below is an e-mail I sent to Nick Zdon, instructor for the History of […]
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Mid-Summer Waning Honey Flow Moon It doesn’t fit very well with other parts of my life, but I’m a big fan of the supernatural, maybe a hold-over from my orthodox religious days. Don’t know. Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress in Bon Temps, Louisiana, is the heroine of Charlaine Harris’s novels, 12 in all. She lives […]
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Mid-Summer Waning Honey Flow Moon A violent, but quick storm blew through this morning, sheets of rain and bending trees, water flowing in the gutters; in it I saw the world that is to come and is now, heat and deluge followed by tornadoes and flooding, the world we have wrought and one whose future […]
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Mid-Summer Waning Honey Flow Moon Five days of clay. Whew. What did I learn? Well, I’m not holding my breath for that National Treasure for potting position when I turn 80. Maybe by that time I’ll have learned how to center, raise a cylinder and throw a bowl. We’ve made some new friends, including our […]
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Mid-Summer Waning Honey Flow Moon Potting, something done for thousands of years by diverse human communities, is hard. At least for me. Kate seems to be getting it. We have a 6,000 year old Chinese pot at the MIA that is one of my favorite pieces in the museum. It is not easy and especially […]
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Mid-Summer Waning Honey Flow Moon On Monday I started the clay class. Monday evening the Woollies made monoprints at Highpoint Print Co-op. Last night was the History of Graphic Design lecture on graphic design, 1950 to the present and tonight Justin and I meet to discuss the Sierra Club’s legislative process and other matters related […]
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