Mid-Summer Waxing Honey Flow Moon Independence Day. Celebrating our ancestor’s victory over the British army and considering how their enlightenment ideals apply to our time. Happy 4th of July! For an unreconstructed radical like myself, these are trying times. I wonder where the sense of communitarian spirit has gone. Yes, we have a can do, […]
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Samhain Waning Thanksgiving Moon Coming home tonight from the city I encountered a traffic slow down. It allowed me to get close to an older model GM car with a bumper sticker in letters too small for me to read from a distance. The bumper sticker read: Leave the Constitution and the Bible Alone. The […]
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Lughnasa Waxing Back to School Moon Finished digging the potatoes. The crop seems smaller than last year’s, but I can’t tell for sure. Still, we don’t eat potatoes often and we have enough to last us quite awhile. Kate made an early autumn roast vegetable medley with onions, carrots, leaks, garlic, beets and one potato […]
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Lughnasa Waxing Back to School Moon Nap. Off to Ace Hardware for chemically resistant gloves. Really. Why would I use anything that required them? Normally, I wouldn’t. But the varroa mites compromise the divide’s ability to survive the winter and the U says to do this until IPM begins to work. If I didn’t have […]
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Humanism
Fall Waxing Autumn Moon Spiritual Resources for Humanists. Been thinking about this from an odd perspective. Humanism is often characterized as anti- or post-Christian. It is, of course, easy to see why this should be so in such Christian marinated cultures as those of the United States and Europe. Easy, yes. But accurate? Think about […]
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