Spring Bee Hiving Moon On errands today I went to Mercy Hospital, got lost in their basement–think rooms filled with IV poles, wheel-chairs, book […]
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Lughnasa New Harvest Moon NB: prophet is a gender neutral word as I use it. Kate. Always ahead of her time. When Kate was in high school in Nevada, Iowa, she arranged a deal to take most of her senior classes at nearby Iowa State. She’d run out of classes in the high school, at […]
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Mid-Summer Waxing Honey Flow Moon Gotta get back to those core exercises. Back went ouch again today. Sympathy for the Doctor? Healing is much less science and much more art. Most of us see medicine covered in the glittering wrap of science, tested hypotheses, proven procedures, well-understood drugs, but in fact the science is often […]
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Winter Waning Moon of the Cold Month 3 degrees In all the hoopla and aftermath of the party I forgot to mention the gospel. The good news. The friend’s wife I wrote about a couple of weeks ago, the one diagnosed with cancer? She came to the party. Not only that she said her energy […]
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Imbolc Waning Wild Moon While eating breakfast this morning a loud noise, like a souped up street cleaner, disturbed my cereal. I asked Kate what it was. She thought it was a souped up street cleaner, or some other machine outside. I got up to look. It was rain. Pouring rain, buckets, pummeling the roof. […]
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Imbolc Waning Wild Moon Those in the health care world, at least the care provider part of it, use medical in a way most of us lay folk don’t. They ask people they meet, especially spouses like me, if they’re “medical.” Kate payed me a compliment in this vernacular a few months back by saying, […]
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70 bar steady 30.13 0mpn SSE dew-point 62 sunrise 6:16 sunset 8:17 Lughnasa Full Corn Moon moonrise 2014 moonset 0554 “Mistakes are at the very base of human thought … feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack of being wrong, we could never get anything useful done.” – […]
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31 bar rises 30.24 4mph ENE dewpoint 13 Full Moon of Winds A visit to the dermatologist. Oh, boy. Talk about quick. He looked at my elbows, looked at my knees, looked at my face. He said don’t use the steriods too much–I never do–and give yourself a week vacation from them every three […]
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