Archive for March, 2015

The Biological Arc

Spring                                              Mountain Spring Moon Wild. Wilderness. These ideas have established themselves as a filter in my mind, a sort of osmotic membrane that pulls notions out of books, magazines, my own thoughts. Last night, […]

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Vulnerable & OK

Spring                           Mountain Spring Moon Quick note to say I’ve moved past the mood of the last post. Business meeting this morning with Kate at the Wildflower. We shared some of our mutual vulnerabilities: mortality, worthiness, relationships with kids and grandkids. In that […]

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Fortuna, Fortuna Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?

Spring                                      Mountain Spring Moon Into Denver to the Village Inn last night to play sheepshead. We had 10 people, so two tables of five which is ideal. Not sure whether I’m more timid in a new group, […]

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Born To Be Wild

Spring                                 Mountain Spring Moon In late April, early May I will attend my 27th retreat with the Woolly Mammoths, this year in Ely at the YMCA’s Camp du Nord. Often we have a theme and I suggested the following: […]

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Spring               Mountain Spring Moon     Finished checking my translation of Medea and Aeson, Book VII:159-237. Took a good while, a lot longer than it took to do the roughed out translation, but the work held up pretty well. This time through was especially useful for those areas […]

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Mountain Weather

Spring                                    Mountain Spring Moon This weather. When I came up to the loft at 6 am, it was cool, but clear. When I went downstairs for breakfast at about 7:15, there was about an inch of snow on […]

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Medea

Spring                                       Mountain Spring Moon Medea. The more closely I follow her story in Ovid, the better I understand why she inspired so many works of literature and painting. In a time when women worked the looms […]

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Warren Wolf?

Spring                     Mountain Spring Moon Found this finally on Youtube. Wolf and bear fishing together at a waterfall. Amazing. I can imagine our Rigel doing this.

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In Flight

Spring, Mountain Spring Moon. The Latin work has begun to change, moving toward more careful, yet faster translation, a new novel is underway and my exercise program has altered. So, too, is this blog undergoing change. I don’t anticipate much difference in the work I do here, but the form needs to reflect a new […]

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Design Change.

Spring    Mountain Spring Moon. As you can see I’ve been at it again, trying to get a Colorado design for Ancientrails. I really appreciate all the feedback I’ve gotten and if you have more…let me have it. This iterative process will not last long, so I hope you’ll bear with me as I try […]

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