Cash Flow, Fiscal Tides
Beltane Early Growth Moon Boy. This money stuff doesn’t … Continue reading
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Live From the Front Range
Winter Waxing Moon of the Cold Month Ancientrails hits the road tomorrow, coming to you cyberlive from Denver, Colorado in the new and rapidly expanding area around the old Stapleton Airport. There will be wonderful grandchildren stories, important updates on … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Family, Retirement
Tagged Gabe, grandchildren, Joe, Jon, Kate, money, Ruth
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Adult Activity
Samhain Waxing Thanksgiving Moon Another meeting with Ruth Hayden, our cash flow and strategy money person. She’s so sharp. Kate has done so well with earning money and putting money away that we’re going to have an ok retirement. We’re … Continue reading
Shame, Guilt, Fear
Lughnasa Waning Artemis Moon While it’s fresh. A meeting this morning with our financial manager where we went over, again, the various moving parts of our investments. It resulted in a down feeling, almost defensive. What was this? He said … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, fear, guilt, money, shame
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Oh, Yeah? How’d It Go?
Summer Waning Strawberry Moon We keep our walkin’ around money at the Credit Union, Associated Health Care Workers. I like credit unions because they’re small and friendly, unlike our mortgage holder, Wells Fargo, who has shafted us time and again. … Continue reading
And Then Again
Spring Awakening Moon OK. Turns out I had read the numbers right. No sudden shower of wealth. No happy Buddha of good fortune. Also, no tears. We have enough, more than most. We have each other, family, the dogs, our … Continue reading
Life Is a Cabaret
Spring Awakening Moon When we drove over to our financial consultant this morning, I looked up and saw a crescent Awakening moon tucked in behind three wispy rows of cirrus clouds. The moon, faint and slightly out of place, added … Continue reading
Surgery, Money and the Electric Fence
Fall Waxing Blood Moon Saw Ruth Hayden again, today. She has guided us since a stressful period in our finances over 7 years ago. As Kate’s retirement comes closer and closer, Ruth helps us with fine-tuning our retirement budget and … Continue reading
Lughnasa Waning Harvest Moon Yesterday and today were full of new information, new faces. Both days challenged my capacity to sit in one place for a long time. The 40+ Aeron chairs in the Minnesota Foundation’s board room made finding … Continue reading
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Tagged Kate, money, Rigel, Sierra Club, Vega
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Still sinking.
Beltane Full Dyan Moon Kate can tell when I begin to submerge, move below the surface of day to day contact. I become short, irritable. She gets the feeling of walking on egg shells. By the time this happens I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Bees, Faith and Spirituality, Family
Tagged brood, hives, melancholy, money, queen cups
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