Spring Beltane Moon The legislature lurches toward adjournment, up ending decades of environmental legislation as it goes, e.g. permitting relaxation, a […]
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Spring Waning Bee Hiving Moon Spent the day in the world I’ve created, Tailte, a sister world to earth, but separated by several thousand light years. It’s strange to spend time there, a place that exists only in my mind, yet populated with people, creatures, landscapes, mountain ranges, oceans, islands, gods and goddesses. Strange, but […]
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Fall Waning Back to School Moon Lafayette, Indiana on the banks of the Wabash River. Home of Purdue, the Boilermakers. Got in here at 8:58 last night Minnesota time. But, this being Indiana, it was 9:58 here. Indiana suffers from chronic ambichronicity with the rest of the country and from county to county within the […]
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Lughnasa Waxing Back to School Moon Whew. The new queen came today in a perforated UPS box, complete with a court of five worker bees. After spraying them with sugar water, I took them out to the honey house where I pushed in the cork at the end of her wooden home, inserted a marshmallow […]
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Lughnasa Waxing Artemis Moon More napping. Still getting the body back to its old form. Maybe tomorrow. Into the Sierra Club for the Legislative Awards. It was the first time these awards have happened. Justin’s idea and a good one. Speeches, good strokes. Ran into Randy Neprash. From days gone by. He was part of […]
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Beltane Waxing Planting Moon Into the city for the last 2010 session meeting of the Sierra Club’s legislative committee. The meeting itself, face to face for the first time since January (we met over the phone every week until tonight), produced thoughtful evaluation of both the process and the content of our work. As Justin […]
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Beltane Waning Flower Moon We had a light frost last night. Many flowers are now gone, tulips mostly, and a few leaves have that sickly green color that comes from burst cells in the stem. The weather service has predictions of 29 tonight, that means I’ll for sure have to cover the sensitive plants this […]
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Winter Waning Moon of Long Nights In to the Sierra Club for a meeting about legislative work. The scope of the Sierra Club’s work is impressive, including legislative work at each session of the Minnesota Legislature and scrutiny of the government’s stewardship of our natural resources in between them. There is litigation work, the primary […]
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The Seventh Generation
Samhain Waning Thanksgiving Moon Any of us who work the legislature and the administration for any purpose have to take the 6.2 billion dollar deficit seriously. It will disrupt state work, occupy legislative time and distract attention from other matters, especially longer term matters like environmental and conservation issues. It could also, in light of […]
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