Archive for December, 2016

The Holidays

Winter                                                                   Cold Moon The grandkids have been here since December 23rd, with the exception of one day. That means a full house, […]

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Hmmm.

Winter                                                                       Cold Moon

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Yamantaka for the New Year

Winter                                                              Cold Moon Existentialism is a philosophy for the third phase. No matter what other metaphysical overlays you may have the tick-tocking grows louder as […]

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Toxic Exhaust

Winter                                                         Cold Moon These are the waning days of 2016, a year whose toxic exhaust will follow us into the New Year and well beyond. The past, […]

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P.T. and Hanukkah

Winter                                                             Cold Moon Katie, my physical therapist, is young, only a year and a half into her career. She’s thin and a somewhat recent transplant […]

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Rambling

Winter                                                       Cold Moon When I worked for the church, the days between Christmas and New Years were an enforced break. No church wanted Presbytery executives in that time […]

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Not Snowed

Winter                                                New (Cold) Moon Though our Shadow Mountain winter has had little snow so far, west of the continental divide has had substantial storms. Snowpack is at 115% of normal. Important for […]

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Illness and Recovery

Winter                                            Moon of the Winter Solstice The ancientrail of illness and recovery continues here on Shadow Mountain. Yesterday it brought an unusual moment, a highly emotional tidal wave crashing through my early Christmas morning […]

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The Morn

Winter                                                            Moon of the Winter Solstice Christmas. Today. Right now the electricity of children twirling in their beds after a sleepless night, the clatter of little […]

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Roots

Winter                                                                Moon of the Winter Solstice Christmas eve. I could measure my distance from my roots by the casual, almost unaware attitude I have […]

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