“The Lamps are different,
but the Light is the same.”
| — | Rumi |
Asides
Spring Bloodroot Moon
A seasonal prank is underway today. Spring, says the calendar. Winter, says the snow in our front yard. Spring, says the calendar. 18 says the thermostat on my weather station. April Fools!
What he said:
“Please,” he told them. “Let us be protectors of creation, protectors of God’s plan inscribed in nature, protectors of one another and of the environment.” Pope Francis I Well, ok, I might quibble with that three letter word, but hey, whatever floats your pope.
Imbolc Bloodroot Moon
Several years ago I asked the naturalist at Cedar Creek Ecological Station, a UofM site here in Anoka county, what he considered the first sign of spring in Minnesota. Without hesitation he said bloodroot. When the bloodroot blooms. That’s why this moon is the bloodroot moon.
“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.”
| — | John Ruskin |
Imbolc Valentine Moon
News stories that will only grow. The Chinese hacking scandal. (or is it an act of cyber cold war?) The momentum, still building, for gay marriage and the full civil rights that will flow from its realization. Asteriods that may impact earth. The brain investigates itself. Water.
“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
| — | Charles Bukowski |
“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
| — | John Muir |
“The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kind.”
| — | Dalai Lama |
“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”
| — | G.B. Shaw |