Beltane Waxing Last Frost Moon Finally. One chunk of the Metamorphosis finished in a literal (sort 0f) version. That’s Book III:138-250. My learning curve has been steep, sometimes so much so that I thought I might tip over backwards, but I seem to have reached a point where moving forward goes faster now and the […]
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Beltane Waxing Last Frost Moon That last frost sickle moon hung in the western sky as I drove home from sheepshead last night. The sickle’s always seem to have somebody sitting on them when I look up. An old woman with a conical hat and a skirt filled with stars. A boy dangling his legs. […]
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Spring Waning Bee Hiving Moon This morning Kate and I had our weekly business meeting. Those Amazon books add up. We’re well into the first growing season with Kate retired. It makes the whole process seem less urgent, more manageable from my perspective. I like that. Having Mark here right now helps, too. After that […]
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Spring Waning Bee Hiving Moon Tomorrow afternoon is the day the bee’s come to their new home. They will have traveled by truck from Chico, California, spent a night at Jim’s Nature’s Nectar and will leave Stillwater for Andover around 2:00 pm. Back home here at Artemis Honey they will go into their colonies, one […]
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Spring Waning Bloodroot Moon The Latin work has gone past difficult learning, though there is still that, too, into a different, almost ecstatic place. Reading the words of another language and making sense, poetry, from them still seems magical to me. I’m really doing it. The closest analogy is my first set of glasses that […]
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