Monthly Archives: November 2019

Shadow Mountain Gratefuls

Samain and the Gratitude Moon Saturday gratefuls: Everybody got here. 8 of us. Ruth, Jon, Gabe, Joe, Seoah, Annie, Kate and me. Plus a very interested Gertie, Rigel, Kepler, and Murdoch. Our oven thermometer allowed me to calibrate the lower … Continue reading →

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Today is Thanksgiving on Shadow Mountain

Samain and the Gratitude Moon Friday gratefuls: Joe and SeoAh arrived with Murdoch after a long drive. Our plowed driveway. Thanksgiving when everyone can be here. Learning how to make chili from scratch. Discovered that smoked paprika adds to chili. … Continue reading →

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Always Something to Celebrate

Samain and the Gratitude Moon Thursday (Thanksgiving) gratefuls: Annie, who came yesterday. The snow on Tuesday. The capon that gave its life for our meal. The winds that howl through the forests this morning. Orion, faithful friend and his good … Continue reading →

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Gathering

Samain and the Gratitude Moon Wednesday gratefuls: lodgepole pine and their snow shedding branches, aspens and their massive cloned groves, Maxwell, Blue, Shadow, and Bear creeks, the mule deer, the elk, the rabbits, the voles, the mice, the cougars, the … Continue reading →

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1′

Samain and the Gratitude (new) Moon Tuesday gratefuls: Friends. All the Woollies with a special inflection for the Zoom guys: Mark, Bill, Tom, Paul. My zoompals. At CBE: mussar folk, Alan, Jamie, Rich, Marilyn, Fran in particular. Neighbors: Jude, Holly, … Continue reading →

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A Holiday Week

Samain and the Fallow Moon Monday gratefuls: the folks at Weather5280, Ted the snowplower, our mail guy, Greg, our Denver Post most of the time delivery person, the UPS and Fedex drivers who deliver our packages. A small web of … Continue reading →

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A Bagel Table

Samain and the beautiful waning crescent Fallow Moon Thanksgiving will have an almost equivalent waxing crescent moon. The Gratitude Moon. A month of saying my gratefuls out loud right here. At least one a day. Grateful for Jon, Ruth, Gabe. … Continue reading →

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Monet

Samain and the Fallow Moon Kate and I went to see the Monet exhibit at the Denver Museum of Art. First outing for Kate in quite a while. Lesley, a fellow mussarite, architect and art historian, led the tour as … Continue reading →

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Midrash Aggadah

Samain and the Fallow Moon Made it into Evergreen going slow. Some timid Coloradans ahead. Black Mountain Drive/Brook Forest was icy, but Jeffco public works had put down a lot of sand, enough to make it safe to drive normal … Continue reading →

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Mundane

Samain and the Fallow Moon Stayed out late Tuesday, for us past 8 pm. Makes the next day slow. Tried to get into the resistance work, couldn’t. Muscles complained. Did thirty minutes on the treadmill. In to see my ophthalmologist. … Continue reading →

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AncienTrails

We all walk ancientrails. Welcome to the journey.