Shame, Guilt, Fear

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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Understanding the Anxious Mind

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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I Wonder

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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62 And Still Worried About High School

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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The Fog of Everyday Life

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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