Archive for February, 2012

Yes, Virginia. It Still Snows in Minnesota.

Imbolc                               Woodpecker Moon The night came cold and wet, slush frozen, then snow piling up, now in the morning branches sag heavy with soggy white.  A late season snow.  The kind for basketball tourneys or interrupting plans.  Just right for […]

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Fun? Bah, Humbug

Imbolc                                   Woodpecker Moon OK, so maybe having the ex on your facebook friends list is odd, but we do share a son and besides, hey we gitta along.  Anyhow she posts a facebook photo of her with her […]

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Greed, A Synonym for Unethical

Imbolc                            Woodpecker Moon Store this in the Well, Duh file: As an individual’s wealth and status rise, so does their tendency to be unethical, concludes a new study of the relationship between socioeconomics and ethics. The study included seven different experiments that […]

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Whoa. Just Backup.

Imbolc                                       Woodpecker Moon Woodpecker hacking away this morning as I awoke.  Yesterday the crows cawed, setting on the branches of our big cottonwoods, 40 feet or so off the ground. A few snow flakes fluttered to […]

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Disjointed, Disoriented, Virused

Imbolc                                   Garden Planning Moon Wow.  Didn’t notice I made no posts yesterday.  How time flies when you take a sub-woofer out for repair, come back, take a nap, throw yourself into a workout, finish the movie The Eagle, […]

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cards

Imbolc                              Garden Planning Moon Sheepshead.  Another good evening.  Bill Schmidt brought a Regina (his wife) made cake and there was a candle, too.  I made a wish.  Not granted.  I wanted better cards in the last half of the night. (the […]

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Tours

Imbolc                                          Garden Planning Moon Students from St. Matthew’s School in St. Paul.  The first group was willing to go with my plan for contemporary art.  There were several very interested, engaged students.  We looked at […]

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Go, Santorum

Imbolc                                      Garden Planning Moon Hey, how about that Santorum?  Way to mix it up.  The longer the Republicans savage each other and the longer the nomination drags out without a clear victor the better.  If the  economy […]

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Reading

Imbolc                                      Garden Planning Moon Not sure what wiped me out yesterday, but I sure felt crummy.  May be lack of sleep from reading too late into the night.  I don’t read much, fiction that is, during the […]

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Too Many Words

Imbolc                                           Garden Planning Moon Still plugging away at 1,500 words a day.  The novel is sort of baggy right now.  Lots of words, probably, as the Emperor famously said to Mozart, too many words. […]

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