Beltane Early Growth Moon Boy. This money stuff doesn’t seem to get easier, even with practice. The annoying reality of cash and its flow, […]
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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 children and a report on the interior of the Denver Mint. Don’t miss anything. Especially […]
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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 still calculating, but things look good. The transition from Kate working full time to casual […]
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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 we’d be fine financially and I believed him. We overhauled our whole approach to money […]
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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. The credit union knows who we are. I went in today to pick up our […]
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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 property, our friends, our creative work. And our Latin. None of that changes, so the […]
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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 a moment of mystery. It was an omen. Ever had a really pleasant surprise? I […]
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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 preparing our holdings to manage the inevitable ups and downs of the market. Her help […]
Read the rest of this entry »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 a good chair easy and did make the day more bearable than the plastic backed […]
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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 not in touch with my effect on the outside world. Distraction and self-absorption reign. She […]
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