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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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