The Humanities. Yeah.

Spring                                                         Beltane Moon “Reminding us that “professor” means someone professing a faith, Delbanco exhorts us to keep the etymology alive: “Surely this meaning is one to which […]

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Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?

Fall                                                                 Waning Autumn Moon “Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.” – Ben Hecht Keyhole history.  A standard assumption among historians.  Decades, even centuries, must pass before we can determine the relevance of particular […]

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The History of Ideas

75  bar falls 29.90  0mph ESE dew-point 60 sunrise 5:49  sunset 8:49  Summer Waning Gibbous Thunder Moon The mayfly lives only one day.  And sometimes it rains.    George Carlin, RIP Freud, Marx and Hegel expelled from school.  The article to which the first sentence here links refers to the strange disappearance from the college […]

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Writing Makes Its Own Space

66  bar steady 29.79  3mph NNW dew-point 63  Summer night, rainy day Full Thunder Moon We had rain and storm, tornado warning and tornado watch.  A full thunder moon day.  The rain poured down, drenching the lily blooms, forming small rivers on the wide leaves of the acorn squash.  While I read the first chapter […]

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Wisdom of the Past Brought Forward

79  bar steady 29.77 3mph N dew-point 52  Summer, warm and clear Waxing Crescent of the Thunder Moon “To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.” – Barbara Tuchman Given this definition […]

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Unitarians in the Upper Midwest

81  bar steep drop  29.62  0mph E dew-point 69  Summer, warm and sunny Waxing Crescent of the Thunder Moon A lot of online research today about UU history.  The UUA (Unitarian-Universalist Association) keeps its congregational data close to the vest.  I wanted to hunt out the location and size of the largest congregations in the […]

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Swollen Muddy And Fast

90  Sunny, hazy   Airquality alert in Nashville.  Suggested:  Limit trips. The deep south is close.  Tennessee was one of the upper slave holding states at the beginning of the civil war and did not secede with the lower south states of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and tomorrow’s destination, Alabama.   Murfeesboro, Tennessee has the Stones River Civil War […]

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Offerings to Keoniloa, God of the Sea

Sunny.  80.  Ocean blue.  Ocean green.  Waves steady.  Low tide today at 9:28AM. Took a 2 hour hike along the Maha’ulepu Heritage Trail.  This is an up and down trail along the southern shore of the island.  It begins in the County Park right next to the Hyatt and heads east from Shipwrecks Beach. At the […]

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The Miracle of Hydraulics

-13  64%  19%  omph WSW bar30.43 steady  windchill-13  Winter             Waxing Gibbous Winter Moon Annie came over and we moved the old TV out near her car.  But, it was -10 and I couldn’t lift the damn thing into her car.  A real Minnesota moment. The air blistering cold and I’m trying lift this way […]

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