Imbolc Woodpecker Moon Another beautiful day. Yes. But. What dark forces work to push the boundaries of weather around like so many children’s blocks, a lego castle on wheels rolling north, careening […]
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Imbolc Woodpecker Moon OK. So, there was this place that used to have winter but had it replaced by a season of cloudy skies and what passes for cold in the southern states. Then, that […]
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Samain Moon of the Winter Solstice Durban. On the somewhat binding, sort of advanced, might be effective at some point result of this latest climate summit. On this point a very interesting column by a philosopher wondering how to […]
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Lughnasa Waxing Honey Extraction Moon “This has been a devastating year,” National Weather Service director Jack Hayes said. “Natural disasters are on the rise in the United States,” he noted, including records for heat, tornadoes, floods and fires, and with the bulk of hurricane season still remaining. So. The economy has tanked. The climate has […]
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Mid-Summer Waning Honey Flow Moon A violent, but quick storm blew through this morning, sheets of rain and bending trees, water flowing in the gutters; in it I saw the world that is to come and is now, heat and deluge followed by tornadoes and flooding, the world we have wrought and one whose future […]
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Fall Waning Back to School Moon Metro Lounge Union Station This is the first class lounge, folks who’ve bought rooms. My next trip to Lafayette had no rooms, but I convinced the lady here to let me in since I had rooms on the Empire builder both ways. Old folks pass by, some in the […]
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66 bar rises 30.07 2mph NNE dew-point 56 Sunset 7:22 Summer night, cool and clear Waning Gibbous Thunder Moon National Geographic Channel had a program called Six Degrees Can Change the World. Geez was it depressing. A lot of the early stuff was material I’d heard before, but as it went on from 1 degree […]
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63 bar rises 29.81 0mph ESE dew-point 51 Beltane, cloudy and cool First Quarter of the Flower Moon “Environmentalism has replaced socialism as the leading secular religion. And the ethics of environmentalism are fundamentally sound. Scientists and economists can agree with Buddhist monks and Christian activists that ruthless destruction of natural habitats is evil […]
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24 87% 21% 0mph SSW bar29.96 steady Winter Waning Gibbous Winter Moon As the winter moon wanes, a warm up heads our way. Tomorrow the temperature will hit 40. That’s a sixty degree swing within the week. Not unusual for Minnesota, but impressive anyhow. I’ve read that we have the most significant temperature and […]
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Day by Day
Samhain Waxing Moon of the Winter Solstice Thursday is art day; Friday is Latin day. Today Greg and I will go over my (rough) translation of verses 36-48 of Book I of Ovid’s Metamorphosis. Though slow going, I get a thrill each time I crack a phrase, write it down and it makes sense. Even […]
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