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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Imbolc Waxing Bridgit Moon Greg Membres, my Latin tutor, recommended a film, The Examined Life. You may have seen it already since it was made in 2008, but it’s a powerful introduction to some fundamental philosophical questions like ethics, the meaning of life, political theory. One truth struck me more powerfully than any other while […]
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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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Summer Waning Summer Moon Life keeps coming at us until this one stops. Gyatsho has been on my mind since his death. As I indicated the day I discussed his death here, the Tibetan belief is that he is now in a possibly 49 day process of finding a home for his reincarnation. As I’ve […]
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44 bar rises 29.89 0mph SW dewpoint 23 Beltane Waning Crescent Moon of Growing A first tonight. A salad made from lettuce I cut from the plants in our kitchen. Enough for two with plenty left on the plants. So, one test of the hydroponics down, a few more to go. I want to […]
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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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