An Old Idea Whose Time Has Come

Spring                                                                           Bloodroot Moon In May some docent friends from the class of 2005, a rowdy class and proud […]

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Plateaus

Imbolc                                                                          Valentine Moon After the Swede saw, lunch and a nap followed by another sentence, 6 verses long, in […]

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Exegesis and Hermeneutics

Lughnasa                                              Waning Harvest Moon “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle While the empirical method, the theory of falsifiability and scientific rigor make it an article of faith that scientists will entertain thoughts with which they may not agree, it is even […]

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Text, Reader, Learning

Lughnasa                                                                              Waning Honey Extraction Moon Been feelin’ tired, a bit lowdown.  Got a good nap this afternoon and better. Latin today was a bit more encouraging than I had anticipated.  My translation was not so far off, I hadn’t pursued sentence and clause construction quite as diligently as would have been good, but I had […]

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The 4th of July

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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Hermes

Samhain                                   Waxing Moon of the Winter Solstice In my session with my Latin tutor today, Greg told me I’d made good progress.  For the first 4 verses or so, he had no corrections at all.  I’m learning something. What I’m learning now, peeling back this onion one more layer is this:  figuring out the exact […]

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