Imbolc Woodpecker Moon A friend, who, like me, recently turned 65, said to me, “I just realized there’s so much to learn. For example, I don’t know anything about China.” This […]
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Lughnasa Waning Honey Extraction Moon Kate and I had a conversation the other day about talent. Two of her sisters make their living playing classical violin. They have talent. A lot of it. BJ went to Julliard and Sarah to Curtis, both academies for topflight talent. They both graduated and have been able to work […]
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Lughnasa Waning Grandchildren Moon Came back home from the Black Forest tonight with the moon roof open and both windows rolled (ha), electronically pushed, down. It was humid warm evening and it reminded me of similar nights in Indiana, nights of driving with the windows down, Radio 890 from Chicago blasting out the latest Beatles […]
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22 85% 26% 0mph NNE bar 29.97 falls YuleTide Waning Gibbous Cold Moon Excerpt of a poem by William Stafford, Choosing A Dog Your good dogs, some things that they hear they don’t really want you to know — it’s too grim or ethereal. And sometimes when they look in the fire they see […]
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Listen, This New Year’s Night
Winter Waning Moon of the Winter Solstice Have you ever been touched, brushed by a faint wing as it passes? Perhaps a brief hesitation in an other wise confident progress, or a stutter in your step as you return home? Some of us feel the passing of these birds of pray more than others. We’ve […]
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