Imbolc Woodpecker Moon Woodpecker hacking away this morning as I awoke. Yesterday the crows cawed, setting on the branches of our big cottonwoods, 40 feet or so off the ground. A few snow flakes fluttered to […]
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Winter First Moon of the New Year So, why do I write novels? In a writing group some years ago, maybe 20, a writing exercise turned into 120 pages of Even the Gods Must Die, a novel inspired […]
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Winter First Moon of the New Year I’ll respond to this in another post, but for those of you interested in the novel, it’s worth a read. You can reach the whole article through the central question link. […]
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Imbolc Waxing Bloodroot Moon This journey has begun to bend toward home. I”m more eager know to go home than I was to come here when I left. That seems good to me. Home is the place you know you’re away from when you’re gone. No place else on earth has that lodestone attraction for […]
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Lughnasa Waxing Harvest Moon When the storm clouds rolled in on Tuesday, I went into a writing place almost immediately. My novel bones got itchy, wanted to scratch out a new book. Fall, as it gets darker and grimmer, colder somehow turns a creative crank, my engine sputters to life. Life’s richness right now jolts […]
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80 bar falls 29.66 0mph E dew-point 76! sunrise 5:55 sunset 8:43 Summer Waning Crescent of the Thunder Moon Jerry Stearns sent word that he worked with rebels in Central America and served a stint as a bodyguard for Rigoberta Minchu, the Mayan activist. This reminded me, though I don’t think it was his intent, […]
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78 bar steady 30.03 0mph ENE dew-point 56 Summer, warm and sunny Waning Gibbous Thunder Moon A trifecta. In to Minnehaha. Back to Andover. In to Kenwood. Back to Andover. In to Sierra Club and the MIA. Back to Andover. Geez. As I said, I gotta check with my scheduler. Katarina is an intern from […]
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48 bar rises 29.83 1mph NW dewpoint 38 Beltane First Quarter of the Hare Moon Once again the papers and books pile up while I focus on the task du jour, getting the garden planted, cleaned up, preened, weeded and planned. Significant news on the hydroponic front. The heirloom tomato plant I’ve kept inside […]
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On Moving Toward Doing the Work Only I Can Do
Winter First Moon of the New Year Spent yesterday shifting to my new work schedule. A couple of hours on Ovid, plus analyzing some of Caesar’s Gallic Wars. Edited three portions of the Tailte Mythos: Book I and began clipping postings […]
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