38 bar steep fall 29.49 2mph N windchill 36 Samhain Full Moon of Long Nights Another TED video worth watching: Where Have All the Bee’s Gone? In it apiarist Dennis vanEnglesdorp gives a brief overview of the honeybee disappearances in the U.S. We have lost about 1/3 of the total hives each year for at […]
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18 bar steep fall 1mph SSW windchill 18 Samhain Full Moon of Long Nights How do you stretch out the creative muscle, let the reins loose on the resources hidden somewhere beyond or under the rational wall? When the Pegasus of new thought tries to rise from its tether inside the amygdala, the fear raiser […]
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74 bar rises 29.92 1mph N dew-point 62 Summer, sunny and pleasant Full Thunder Moon “Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.” – Henri Bergson I’ve not seen this quote before, but I like it. I do know Bergson, however, a creative philosopher. He proposed the snapshot theory of […]
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59 bar steady 30.02 1mph WSW dewpoint 42 Beltane, sunny Waxing Gibbous Hare Moon “The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.” – Sir R. F. Burton Burton is an interesting guy. He traveled the world and did a translation of the Arabian Nights. He […]
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59 bar rises 29.84 1mph NE dewpoint 46 Spring Full Moon of Growing Kate and I observed a tradition thousands of years old tonight. We got out the Haggadh, put the horseradish, cilantro, haroset, boiled egg and lamb bone (we substituted a chicken leg.) on a Seder plate. A small egg shaped cup held the […]
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69! bar steep fall 29.84 3mph ENE dewpoint 49 Spring Full Moon of Growing Boy. With the temps in the high 60’s the full moon of growing has matured during the right weather. Good news. There are Jews just across the city line into Coon Rapids. Both Cub and Rainbow have many shelves […]
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42 bar rises 29.99 2mph NNE dewpoint 41 Spring Full Moon of Growing “People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.” – Thomas Szasz I agree with Szasz (the anti-psychiatrist famous for his views about schizophrenia) […]
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47 bar rises 29.95 3mph N dewpoint 40 Spring Full Moon of Growing No matzoh at Festival in Andover. No lamb. The butcher said, “We only carry it for holidays. Can’t push it any other time.” Not many Jews in Andover either, apparently. This is a big one for Jews all over the […]
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42 bar falls 30.14 6mph NNE dewpoint 31 Spring Waxing Crescent Moon of Growing Some of this, some of that. Reorganized a few books in the study. Called the folks at NOW fitness to get a repair for the treadmill. Surprise! It has a lifetime warranty. Can you beat that? I bought it 12 years […]
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How Do We Open Ourselves to Mystery?
Lughnasa Waxing Back to School Moon A very busy three days with something in the evening each night plus events during the day, too. Glad to get a chance to get back to the bees and the garden. Some autumn blooming bulbs came in the mail today, so I’ll get a chance to plant them […]
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