Falling in Love

Imbolc                                                                 Valentine Moon “I really fell in love with that part of the world,” says Cynthia Hopkins of the Arctic, where she journeyed […]

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The Great Lake

Beltane                                                  Waxing Last Frost Moon Have you ever had a love affair that ebbed and flowed like embers in a fire wavering between bursting into flame and dying out?  I have.  Today I visited that other lover in my life, Lake Superior.  A bookshelf full of books rest in a room not ten feet from […]

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Staying Within My Skill Set

May 22, 2010              Beltane                    Waxing Planting Moon While reading an article about Trevor-Rope, a British historian,  I learned that Gibbon wrote Decline and Fall in an attempt to answer the problem raised by the Enlightenment’s idea of progress.  This triggered, for some reason, an echo of the talk by Siah Armajani at the MIA a […]

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After the New Year, Backup

-3  bar rises 30.00  SW0  windchill -3  Winter Waxing Crescent of the Wolf Moon The Orchard in Winter 2009 has well and truly begun.  The new year crept in on snow shoes, covered in a snowmobile suit and holding a cup of hot cocoa.  This was a Minnesota new year. We’ve had a cold winter […]

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