Lughnasa Waning Honey Extraction Moon More butting my head against a language that any 4 year old in ancient Rome could speak and a reasonably intelligent 5 year old could read. I guess there is a plateau affect here and I’m standing on one right now. I can see the path I’ve taken to get […]
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Spring Waxing Bee Hiving Moon Two tours today, 2nd graders at 10:00 am and a group of seniors from Minnetonka at 1:30. I took the kids through a mysteries of the ancient world tour. I love 2nd graders. They’re eager, uncensored, fun and often bright. We learned how sculptures lose things that stick out, why […]
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Fall Waxing Harvest Moon Gave Liberal II this morning. Lot of conversation, a little consternation. Best piece was a conversation with Ian Boswell, the music director. We discussed the limits of rationality and the integration of reason and soulfulness that great music represents. He pointed to the late sonatas of Beethoven. This has given me […]
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Beltane Full Planting Moon I often see movies well past their sell-by date. Tonight, for instance, I got around to seeing Goya’s Ghosts, a Milo Foreman piece from 2006. This has Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman and Stellan Skarsgaard as Goya. It must have been so named because the character Goya seems to have a very […]
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20 bar falls 30.52 1mph ESE windchill 19 Samhain Last Quarter of the Dark Moon Second graders from a dual-language immersion school trailed after me through the museum. We went up on the elevator, always a hit and proceeded once on the third floor to Tanguy. Sophia, or was it Sarah, said, “It looks like […]
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