Beltane Early Growth Moon An odd twist in emphasis in the usually technological triumphalist (which I enjoy, even if I don’t always agree […]
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Spring Beltane Moon Kate is home and her arm (cellulitis) looks much better. Still a ways to go both on the antibiotics and healing, but the right direction. […]
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Samain Moon of the Winter Solstice My cousin Leisa, second youngest of all the Keaton cousins (mom’s side of our family), has had an aneurysm found, repaired and then slipped into a coma as a result of a stroke. Part of […]
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Spring Full Bee Hiving Moon My bee pick up date and time has come. I get my gals around 2:30 pm on Saturday. I’m mostly ready, having prepared the hive boxes and the frames on Sunday. I need a couple of entrance reducers and a bottom board, but that’s no big deal. I have frozen […]
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Winter Waning Moon of the Cold Month 3 degrees In all the hoopla and aftermath of the party I forgot to mention the gospel. The good news. The friend’s wife I wrote about a couple of weeks ago, the one diagnosed with cancer? She came to the party. Not only that she said her energy […]
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Winter Waxing Moon of the Cold Month Sunlight has begun to grow, but as is often the case here in January, the snow keeps the air near the ground cold and the amount of light increase will not begin to warm us until February, though by then the train will have left the station for […]
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Winter Waning Moon of the Winter Solstice When a friend is in pain, the pain travels. In its journey from one friend to another, the pain may not lessen, but its burden may grow lighter. Such a journey is underway now with a friend whose wife has received distressing news, the kind of news we […]
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Spring Full Flower Moon Death comes calling whenever it wants, not worrying about the season or the weather or the inclinations of the living. Kate’s colleague, Dick, suffering from multiple myeloma has gone on hospice care after two years of often brutal treatment regimens. Bill Schmidt’s brother, who has prostate cancer, also chose hospice care […]
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Imbolc Waning Wild Moon The Woolly’s met tonight at the Jasmine across from the Black Forest. Food is noveau Vietnamese, French accents. I had spring rolls and mangoes on sticky rice. Just right. Got to give everyone a head’s up on labyrinthitis. Tom has a friend who visited him yesterday and may be dead from […]
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