Lughnasa Waning Harvest Moon The museum (MIA) has us check out when we’re going to be gone over our tour days, so I’ve checked out from mid-October through early December. I’ve not had many tours in August and none in September, just one in October. That, plus the relatively light schedule for the Sierra Club–the […]
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Spring Waning Bloodroot Moon I’ve discovered an analogy between translation and science. Coming to a premature conclusion about the meaning of a passage causes chopping and cramping to fit meanings, declensions and conjugations into the preconceived notion. The better way lies in suspending judgment, collecting all the possibilities, then, sorting them out in context, both […]
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Fall Waning Harvest Moon Another morning of cool, wet weather. The beginning of October. No. Scratch that. The end of October. I recognize this fall weather actually; it comes to us courtesy of the climate that used to be Indiana’s. This is the weather pattern of my boyhood. Sunny, sometimes warm, sometimes not fall days, […]
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Beltane Waning Flower Moon There is here the action: taking the hive tool and wrenching loose the propolis, moving the frame, all the while bees buzzing and whirring, digging into the soil, placing the leeks in a shallow trench, the sugar snap peas in their row, inoculant on top of them, around them. The plants […]
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11 bar falls 30.22 2mph NE windchill 7 Samhain Last Quarter Moon of Long Nights Here is a new term (new to me) that has become important in my thinking: emergence. It comes from a discipline that fascinates me, but about which I know very little: complexity theory. Emergence describes those characteristics of life forms, […]
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Kate and I will head over to Beisswingers in a few minutes. The lawn tractor has had a checkup, gotten set up for winter storage and had its blades sharpened. It will go in the machine shed, the one back on the wood’s edge. After that, we will start laying the black plastic. I cleared […]
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38 73% 23% 0mph SSW bar29.12 steady windchill39 Winter Last Quarter of the Winter Moon Think I lost a post somewhere in cyber space, one from this morning. A miscellaneous day so far. Kate and I decided on the kinds of vegetables we want to grow. Next I’ll look at her choices for varieties […]
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Solstice Celebrations. What Might They Mean?
Winter Moon of the Winter Solstice Something new seems to be happening. Not sure if I’m reading the rustling in the ether of our culture right, but it feels like the Great Wheel may have begun to reemerge. Not […]
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