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Beltane                                             Full Planting Moon As a cold winds down, the body’s defenses leave sludge from the war behind, most of it right now parked  behind my cheek bones.  I don’t know whether I really haven’t had a cold in two years or whether my memory isn’t what it was, but I know it’s been a […]

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Thrashing in the Desert

Samhain                                     Waning Wolf Moon Oh, my.  The day after the Viking’s thrashing in the desert, the mauling in the sand, the collapse in the sun brings…not much.  Favre admitted they got outplayed and that he, in particular, succumbed to old ways, win it himself by throwing, throwing, throwing, avoiding the question of open receivers and […]

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The Generator Failed

60  bar falls 30.16 0mph NW dew-point 36  Beltane, twilight               Last Quarter of the Hare Moon   This story grabbed me.  See below it to see why. “MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – A woman who spent nearly 60 years of her life in an iron lung after being diagnosed with polio as a child died Wednesday […]

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There Are Days, Ordinary Days

58  bar rises 29.80 2mph W dewpoint 30 Beltane New Moon (Hare Moon) There are days, ordinary days, days you can recall, when your life took a sharp angle turn, or created a swooping curve, perhaps dipped underground or soared up, up into the sky. It seems I remember, though how could I really, the […]

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History Changes the Past

35  bar steady 30.04 2mph WSW dewpoint 26 Spring               Waning Gibbous Moon of Winds History changes the past.  Comic books were bad, bad, bad when I was a kid.  I knew this because my mother told me so.  I could read Tarzan and a couple of others I can’t recall, but never Batman, Superman, or […]

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Just Another Day in Paradise

12  73%  19%  0mph EEN bar30.06 falls windchill 11  Winter                  Waning Crescent of the Winter Moon “Paradise is here or nowhere: You must take your joy with you, or you will never find it.” – O.S. Marden Salient advice as Kate and I prepare for Hawai’i.  “Just another day in paradise,” is often heard […]

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