A Day of License
Fall Waxing Autumn Moon Got up at 7:10. Left the house at 7:30 for Anoka County Driver’s License center to see if we could get Mark a spot for his driving test. When we reached the site at 7:45, there … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Saudi Arabia, Here He Comes
Fall New Autumn Moon Go, now. The visa process is ended. Yes, it’s true. Mark’s visa cleared the Saudi Embassy at 3pm today. Hopefully his passport will get here tomorrow via Fedex. If that happens, Dr. Ahmed will send Mark … Continue reading
Posted in Art and Culture, Family, Our Land and Home
Tagged blankets, Dine, Mark, turkeys
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A Melancholy Garden
Fall Waxing Autumn Moon In spite of the 80 degree plus weather it felt like a fall day outside. The sky blue, the clouds white, the sun weak. Collected the potatoes. After Mark carried the harvest inside, I put the … Continue reading
Strange Weather
Fall New Autumn Moon A strange weather time. A storm system and winds blowing in from the east. Our weather systems almost always come from the west, following the planet’s rotation and the jet stream, but this raggedy storm system … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Dreams, GeekWorld, Humanities, Memories, Myth and Story, Weather +Climate
Tagged mind, narrative, narrator, neurology, night, Self
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On The Move
Fall New Autumn Moon While we slept, the busy folks at English Gate Academy in Saudi Arabia were solving Mark’s visa snags. Dr. Ahmed called a person he knew at the Saudi Embassy in DC. Mark submitted two new forms, … Continue reading
Breaching the Walled Garden of the Self
Fall Waning Harvest Moon Prepping for a presentation on Spiritual Resources for Humanists. Reading books, articles, letting ideas slip past as I get ready to sleep, keeping my antennae out for what feeds me now. The book I mentioned before, … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Art and Culture, Bees, Commentary on Religion, Faith and Spirituality, Family, Great Work, Humanities, Literature, Myth and Story
Tagged God, God is dead, Green Knight, humanism, mandorla, Nietschze, Self, Sir Gawain, spirituality
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Sunday
Fall Waning Harvest Moon A gorgeous fall day. A little Ovid in the morning, a nap, a flu shot, drop off audio books at the library, help Mark practice parking. The bonus of the ongoing visa madness is that he … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Family
Tagged driving, Kate, leeks, Mark, peaches, pot pies, raspberrie, raspberry pie
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Partners and Co-Creators
Fall Waning Harvest Moon Went out and picked raspberries for pancakes this morning. With a definite chill in the air the garden felt different, a bit sleepy, ready to bed down for the cold season. After a month or so … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Art and Culture, Asia, Faith and Spirituality, Garden, Great Wheel, Great Work, Our Land and Home, permaculture, Politics
Tagged Africa, co-creation, creation, ecology, India, partnership, song dynasty
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The Normal Extraordinary
Lughnasa Waning Harvest Moon Just back from the grocery store. Kate went along, a nice treat. On so many levels the grocery store speaks to privilege. We have food, fresh food, all year round. Kate and I can buy food … Continue reading
Posted in Garden, General, Great Work, Our Land and Home, US History
Tagged cornucopia, grocery store, USA
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