Spring Bloodroot Moon Today is the much nicer day of the next three. Tomorrow the high will be 46 and windy, Monday 41 with ice and snow. Today it […]
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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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Spring Full Bee Hiving Moon It is never safe to speak and act for freedom in an unfree place. How many have learned that lesson? American revolutionaries. French. East Indian. American Indian. The South African blacks. The list could go on and on. Spartacus. Socrates. Even Jesus. It is never safe to be unfree. That’s […]
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Imbolc Waxing Bridgit Moon This Valentine boy would like to send a big Valentine to all the folks in Tunisia and Egypt, to all folks anywhere, including Iran and Pakistan, even to the Tea Party folks, who yearn to be free. The yearning for freedom and liberty, a chance to steer toward a future of […]
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Our Body, Our Politic
Spring Bee Hiving Moon OK, I admit it. I got suckered in by that warm weather. Now I miss it. So, sue me. Even so, I still prefer […]
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