Archive for January, 2014

Mature Adults

Winter                                                                 Valentine Moon Necessary but not necessarily pleasant work this morning.  Kate and I went through our health care directives, making sure they […]

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Schafkopf

Winter                                                                    New (Valentine) Moon Sheepshead is a very culturally specific card game, favored by German descended or influenced persons who have spent […]

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Daily Rhythm Right Now

Winter                                                              Seed Catalog Moon Wednesdays (Woden’s Day) and Thursday (Thor’s Day) find me immersed in the Climate Change MOOC.  Wednesday all day, Thursday as long […]

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Yoga.  This will take a while to get.  Difficult for me, co-ordinating the various moves and it requires stamina and strength as well as flexibility.  I probably have the most to gain in yoga of all the work P90X has to offer.  Which means, of course, that I’m starting the farthest from where I want […]

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Flood Narratives

Winter                                                          Seed Catalog Moon Hmmm.  I do like it when I’m scratching my head and I turn to the commentary to find, “Medieval and modern Latinists could […]

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Back on Tailte, Peering Into the Climate Future

Winter                                                        Seed Catalog Moon After a frustrating morning with a balky computer, I got into Robert Klein’s work on Missing.  He’s good.  Careful, detailed.  I’ve only rejected one […]

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Doing Stuff

Winter                                                               Seed Catalog Moon I have a ways to go before I get up to 7 or 8 verses in an hour.  There’s still […]

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Plyo, Oh Myo

Winter                                                         Seed Catalog Moon   On Saturday afternoon the P90X program kicked into plyometrics.  This involves jumping, twisting, turning, lunging.  The chest and back resistance work of […]

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Spring Rolls Over in Bed, Goes Back to Sleep

Winter                                                                     Seed Catalog Moon On occasion now my eye drifts out to our raised beds mounded with snow, our fruit trees […]

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Carbon on the Go

Winter                                                                  Seed Catalog Moon This am in the climate change mooc listening to lectures about the international policy dimensions.  Boy, there are very […]

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