Spring Mountain Spring Moon New morning habit in process of forming. I’m going to protect the time from 5:45-11:00 am … Continue reading
Imbolc Garden Planning Moon Hey, how about that Santorum? Way to mix it up. The longer the Republicans savage each other and … Continue reading
Winter First Moon of the New Year May have found a new method for working on the latin. Translate it … Continue reading
Winter First Moon of the New Year At an inflection point with the Latin. Either I keep the pace … Continue reading
Winter First Moon of the New Year An Ovidian morning. Holding words, conjugations, meanings, clause types, prepositions and adverbs in the head while whirling them around … Continue reading
Samain Moon of the Winter Solstice My first Latin day since before the cruise. Today and probably next week, too, … Continue reading
Lughnasa Waning Harvest Moon More time today on Ovid. Working on Book III:570-574. This chunk, starting at 509 and running through 579, introduces the story of Pentheus, a cautionary tale about religious zealots. Pentheus criticizes the seer Tiresias as an … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Lughnasa Waning Honey Extraction Moon And here I thought things were going well. My translation this morning was far, far off the mark. It was, Greg said, a combination of things. I don’t know the story. The poetry makes difficult … Continue reading
Lughnasa Waning Honey Extraction Moon A Latinate day. The am found me back in Pentheus, a story in the third book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. I remember the story from the English version, at least in part. Pentheus gets torn apart … Continue reading