Mid-Summer Waning Honey Flow Moon Five days of clay. Whew. What did I learn? Well, I’m not holding my breath for that National Treasure for potting position when I turn 80. Maybe by that time I’ll have learned how to center, raise a cylinder and throw a bowl. We’ve made some new friends, including our […]
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Beltane New Garlic Moon One of those days. Into the museum, leaving at 10:30 am and just got back now, 6:00 pm. Had a Japan Art Cart, oh boy, with very few visitors. A group of autistic kids and a classical musician and his daughters stopped by and that was about it. The art cart […]
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Spring Waxing Bee Hiving Moon Libya. The Middle East in an arc of protest. We have intervened on behalf of Libyan rebels and I’m pretty sure my boy is over there, directing bombardments. I say pretty sure because he was secretive when he told me about this deployment. Wherever he is, he’s flying 20 hour […]
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Imbolc Waxing Bloodroot Moon August 6th. The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Rendering the friendly atom a deadly enemy. Since that time, mutations became a favorite meme of scary movie in the 50’s and early 60’s. Since that time movies like On the Beach, Fail Safe, Doctor Strange Love, the China Syndrome have […]
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Beltane Waxing Planting Moon Up early. For me. 7 am. Had to get Kate to the bank and to the airport by ten. We made it. Her plane took off at 11:45, (turned out to be 1:15 pm instead) so Delta promised. I haven’t heard from her yet, but I imagine she’s there and in […]
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Imbolc Waxing Wild Moon Kate and I reviewed our work on chapter 5 in Wheelock this morning. Then 2,000 words on the novel after the nap. Workout. Sierra Club legcom conference call. I’ve been reading my fourth Qiu Xiaolong mystery, The Red Mandarin Dress. These are Chief Inspector Chen novels, set in today’s Shanghai. They […]
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79! bar steep fall 29.62 5mph WSW dewpoint 35 Beltane, sunny Waxing Gibbous Hare Moon The final Weber tours. A Japanese language class from Kennedy HS in Bloomington and a small group of stunned ladies of a certain age. Neither tour was a flop, neither an engaging and vital time. The Kennedy group had […]
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62 bar falls 29.85 3mph NNW dewpoint 29 Beltane Waxing Crescent of the Hare Moon “The capitalist bookkeepers’ theoretician was German sociologist Max Weber, whose 1910 book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism argued that the key feature of capitalism was that making money becomes ‘a calling’, an end in itself. The bourgeois […]
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34 bar rises 29.50 3mph NNW dewpoint 31 Spring First Quarter Moon of Growing The calendar says spring; the snow says not yet. It’s all moisture, though, and if it doesn’t run away to rivers and streams, some of this goes to recharge ground water and aquifers. A good thing whether it comes chilled […]
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Body Flow
Imbolc Waxing Bloodroot Moon Some of our front yard is visible! This is the first time in over 125 days, maybe more. A friendly patch of brown lawn and the base of a spruce, an amur maple and a pine tree. The bloodroot cannot be far behind. Two tours today. A Japan tour that reminded […]
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