More Doing
Summer Hiroshima Moon More doing. A couple of weeks ago our dogs, imagining we … Continue reading
Tag Archives: melancholy
Leave Taking
Spring Woodpecker Moon At the dentist this morning I told them … Continue reading
Melancholia
Imbolc Woodpecker Moon In what is, I suppose, a good sign, I’m … Continue reading
Another Beautiful Day. Bah.
Imbolc Woodpecker Moon Another beautiful day. Yes. But. What dark forces work to push the boundaries of … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Great Work, Sierra Club, Weather +Climate
Tagged climate change, melancholy
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Shadow Line Approaching
Imbolc Woodpecker Moon Not sure how serious, but I can feel the clouds rolling in, a … Continue reading
Fall-ing
Lughnasa Waxing Harvest Moon As August slides away and the sky shifts its colors toward deeper hues, an inner barometer detects higher emotional pressures. The atmosphere weighs more, cuing those momentary pauses, breaks in attention. It may signal a storm … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Faith and Spirituality, Family, Memories
Tagged death, Ira Progoff, Mark, Mary, melancholy, Mom
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See You In September
Lughnasa Waxing Honey Extraction Moon The end of the day. The time when the season turns on a pivot toward fall and away from the Solstice. My mood has shifted to melancholic. Not sure why. Maybe the end of the … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Humanities, Memories
Tagged college, Latin, melancholy, school, Tai Chi
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What Get’s You Up In The Morning?
Beltane Waxing Last Frost Moon Several years ago, maybe twenty, I sat down with my friend Lonnie Helgeson at the Walker cafe, a table overlooking downtown Minneapolis and the Sculpture Garden. Lonnie, I said, I could die now. I feel … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Art and Culture, Dreams, Faith and Spirituality, Great Work, Humanities, Woolly Mammoths, Writing
Tagged caesura, melancholy, passion
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Ordinary Stuff
Beltane Waxing Strawberry Moon The half Strawberry moon hangs just above the basswoods in our woods. The night has a velvet texture, not the Elvis portrait kind but the backing for a stunning diamond necklace kind. The moon lays upon … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Faith and Spirituality, Memories
Tagged Add new tag, Alexandria, melancholy, strawberry moon
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Minnesota: Where We Are
Beltane Waxing Strawberry Moon Had another bowl of strawberries fresh from the patch, grown under the Strawberry Moon. There’s something special about food that comes from your own land, nurtured by your own hands, a something special beyond the nutritional … Continue reading
Posted in Faith and Spirituality, Garden, Great Work, Minnesota, Politics
Tagged Latin, melancholy, Minnesota, police, Seven Oaks, strawberries, strawberry moon
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