Lughnasa Waning Artemis Moon While it’s fresh. A meeting this morning with our financial manager where we went over, again, the various moving parts of our investments. It resulted in a down feeling, almost defensive. What was this? He said we’d be fine financially and I believed him. We overhauled our whole approach to money […]
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Fall Waning Blood Moon Finally, a city criteria list worth paying attention to: The Daily Beast has ranked America’s Smartest Cities. The Twin Cities come in 4th after, in order, Raleigh-Durham, San Francisco and Boston. Denver is 5th. Las Vegas and Fresno, California bring up the rear at 54th and 55th. It’s an interesting read. […]
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Lughnasa Full Harvest Moon “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” – Greek Proverb I’m nervous. Not sweat on the palms, head for the door or the tunnel kind of nervous, but nervous anyhow. It has two sources I can identify. One, will I dress well enough to preach in Wayzata? After a life time of […]
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Imbolc Waning Wild Moon Leaving for St. Paul in a few minutes. Managed to work myself into an anxious state. Wonderful. The day itself has glorious possibilities, bright and warming. What I’m experiencing falls under the category of pre-tramautic stress syndrome; that is, stress caused by anticipation of an unlikely, but possible phenomenon. Last night […]
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35 54% 34% 7mph windroseENE bar rises dewpoint20 First Quarter of the Snow Moon Holiseason The great tragedy of Science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. Thomas H. Huxley (1825 – 1895) Whenever I read something about war, especially from a general staff perspective, this observation comes up: “A battle […]
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