The 4th

Summer                                        Waning Strawberry Moon The 4th of July.  A time to think about our country, our home, our sea to shining sea.  Are we in decline?  This chestnut has begun hitting the op ed pages again.  I don’t know, they don’t know.  Only history will tell us.  Does it matter?  Not to me.  We’ll still […]

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What is the Midwest?

Summer                                           Waning Strawberry Moon A focus on America hits me about the time the summer heats up.  Something about the lazy, hazy, crazy days tickle my American gene. ( apologies to Carreen, but it’s the adjective of my youth )  I’ll read a novel or history of the American Revolution, look more deeply into some […]

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America the society is in fine shape! America the polity most certainly is not.

Winter                                   Waxing Cold Moon OK.  The Cold Moon has finally risen on its namesake air temps.  8 this morning.  It’s a clear day after a small snowfall yesterday. If I were to put my finger on one thing to account for the Viking’s loss Sunday, discounting the six turnovers, it would be the 12 men […]

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Free kittens. Spaded.

Lughnasa                    Waning Green Corn Moon Rigel and Vega have returned home, a bit foggy and uncertain.  Spayed now, they have to be on home rest for the next 10 days.  Somehow I don’t think we’ll make that. Kate and I saw a cute poster on the bulletin board posted in the airlock going out of […]

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I Love the Midwest

Imbolc      Waxing Moon of Winds Finished the Asmat tour and a visual thinking strategies (VTS) tour for 3rd graders.  I give them tomorrow morning. Put together the legislative update for the Sierra Club blog and a morning entry for the Star-Trib.  Soon, it will be nap time. This afternoon and over the weekend I’ll dig […]

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Home and Heart

1  bar steep rise 30.42  WSW0   windchill 1  Winter Waxing Crescent of the Wolf Moon Oh, man.  To get the trash out I had to blow the snow.  Underneath the snow is ice.  The snowblower with its knobby tires spun out and the only reason I stayed on my feet was the firm grip I […]

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America, America

83  bar falls 30.00  1mph E dew-point 66  sunrise 6:21  sunset 8:11  Lughnasa Waning Gibbous Corn Moon “The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the […]

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What Does It Mean To Be An American?

85  bar falls 29.75 0mph E  dew-point 66  sunrise 5:53  sunset 8:44  Summer Waning Crescent of the Thunder Moon The hangover from the docent program continues.  We have to do an Africa check-out tour with two partners.  We each prepare three objects, then share the information and come ready to present any of the objects.  […]

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A Failure of American Education

46  bar rises 30.08 0mph N dewpoint 32 Spring             Waxing Gibbous Moon of Growing “There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.” – George Santayana Santayana liked football, but only practice.  While at Harvard, he attended practice faithfully, but never went to a game.  His philosophical wisdom has a […]

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