Summer Most Heat Moon As the night settles gently here, Kate is home and has taken Kepler with her to bed. He sleeps in his own […]
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Mid-Summer Waxing Honey Flow Moon Kate’s put up ten jars of red currant jam and put together six honey supers. She’s a great ally in estate management with her skills. She keeps saying, “I’m surprised how much major surgery slows me down.” Oh? When I ate dinner at the Java yesterday, the waitress said, “That […]
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Samhain Waning Thanksgiving Moon In no particular order, though there must be one, at some point, here a few notes I’ve taken from reading, living. 1. Death happens. To all of us. Whether we fear it or welcome it. therefore, it’s best to befriend death, to live with it as a counselor on your left […]
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Samhain Waning Harvest Moon Spent lunch with Leslie. She’s progressing in her work at Groveland. We had a very interesting conversation about a UU ecclesiology, not an easy topic since the notion loses something in importing it from Christianity. UU’s insist on calling their congregations churches, but that is accurate only historically for almost all […]
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Lughnasa Waxing Back to School Moon Nap. Off to Ace Hardware for chemically resistant gloves. Really. Why would I use anything that required them? Normally, I wouldn’t. But the varroa mites compromise the divide’s ability to survive the winter and the U says to do this until IPM begins to work. If I didn’t have […]
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Lughnasa Waning Artemis Moon Kate’s at work. Two months almost to the day after her hip surgery she has returned to the Allina Clinic in Coon Rapids for her last four months of full time practice. I anticipate a successful evening and final four months for her, having seen a remarkable recovery in terms of […]
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Beltane Waning Planting Moon When I punched Delta 2406 into Google, it delivered a website called Flight Status. On Flight Status I could watch the progress of Kate’s flight from San Francisco as she moved across Utah, Wyoming, South Dakota and into Minnesota. I looked over at the computer occasionally as I worked in Chapter […]
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Another busy week. Guess it’s a good thing we’re headed to Colorado on Saturday. Time for a rest. Yesterday I worked outside all morning, then took a nap, worked out and went to the Woollys at Paul’s house. We talked about love. Love was central to each of our lives and, we all agreed, to […]
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Love, Sex and Scandal
Beltane Waxing Last Frost Moon Love, sex and scandal tour tonight. We went from the Venus figurine, made 20,000 years ago, to the erotic work of Balthus, covering, in between nymphs and satyrs, heroes and centaurs, a raped Roman matron, a satirized French actress, a beloved 5th century Chinese singing girl and the Little Girl […]
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