Lughnasa Waxing Harvest Moon Another fine day with that clean blue sky we borrow from our Canadian cousins this time of year. When my family used to go to Stratford, Ontario for the Shakespeare Festival, I came to associate these skies with those crown topped highway signs, the ones that always told me I was […]
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Lughnasa Waning Honey Extraction Moon The nights have grown cooler. The August moon has begun to fade away, and the September moon will not come for a bit. Dark nights approach, a time for the occult. Minnesota, Mark says, feels like Canada and the Twin Cities feel like Canadian cities. The bright blue August sky, […]
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Imbolc Waxing Bridgit Moon See. It helps to share your pain. Woolly brother and cybermage Bill Schmidt gave me the number of his son-in-law, Steve Johnson, who runs a part-time business called I-tech. He knows networks and backups, doing that kind of thing during the day for 3M. I’m gonna give him a call. Time […]
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Samhain Waxing Thanksgiving Moon If you haven’t read the satirical piece about Canadian immigration posted below, it’s worth a look. I want to tell you here about a true story concerning Canadian immigration, but it comes from an earlier time. One cold day in 1968 David McCain and I set out from Muncie, Indiana Toronto […]
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Samhain Waxing Thanksgiving Moon From The Manitoba Herald by Clive Runnels Canadians: “Build a Damn Fence!” The flood of American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has intensified in the past week, sparking calls for increased patrols to stop the illegal immigration. The recent actions of the Tea Party are prompting an exodus among […]
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How Might We Lose Our Freedoms?
Beltane Waning Last Frost Moon “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln The tea-party folks and all those ronpaulites must love this quote from Lincoln. I just did a quick search trying (unsuccessfully) to find its source. […]
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