Samain Moon of the Winter Solstice In to the city to meet with Justin, Sierra Club’s lobbyist and policy wonk. We’re putting together a campaign strategy for this upcoming session. I love the ins and outs of politics, the practical, […]
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Winter Waxing Moon of Long Nights We’ve warmed up to 0. Midmorning’s brittle sunshine diffuses in the hazy, partly cloudy sky. The whippets go outside, pee, turn around and come right back inside. Rigel, unphased, continues to hunt around the machine shed, staying on the hunt for hours at a time. Sometimes she comes in […]
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72 bar falls 20.76 0mph ESE dew-point 64 sunrise 6:29 sunset 7:58 Lughnasa Waning Crescent of the Corn Moon A Sierra club blogger caught these comments after her light hearted, energetic account of her second day at the Democratic convention: What I would like to know is the substance of what is being said and […]
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66 bar steady 29.87 0mph NW dew-point 52 Summer night First Quarter of the Thunder Moon First meeting of the Sierra Club political committee is under my belt. I am delighted to say that there were several things we did that I cannot talk about yet. It was fun, sitting around the table again, considering […]
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77 bar falls 30.01 1mph SW dew-point 50 Summer, pleasant Waxing Crescent of the Thunder Moon Sometimes coincidence says things that would have not occurred to me: Larry Harmon, longtime Bozo the Clown, dead at 83. Former Sen. Jesse Helms dies at age 86. Mulch goes down today. Old leaves and grass clippings from last […]
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76 bar falls 29.85 1mph ESE dew-point 60 Summer, sunny headed toward hot Waning Crescent of the Flower Moon “Over 200 LEED-certified new homes are being built by the Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation under the auspices of…Dudley Neighbors Inc., Boston’s two-decade-old community land trust — a burgeoning affordable housing strategy where residents buy the […]
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Just in case you don’t think the Presidency matters much, look at what G. Bush did to the American way of life: Guns The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense and hunting, the justices’ first major pronouncement on gun rights in U.S. history. Exxon Valdez The Supreme Court […]
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73 bar steady 29.84 0mph NNW dew-point 61 Summer, cooler Last Quarter of the Flower Moon This e-mail went out today to the Woolly Mammoths and the folks at Groveland. I wanted to add it here and alert you that I will post further mailings here, too. Political passion still burns in this heart, but […]
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68 bar steady 29.67 3mph NE dew-point 56 Beltane, cloudy and warm Waxing Crescent of the Flower Moon “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt A wise thought from our third greatest president (after GW and Abe). What we doubt we can do […]
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This Is The Question I Face Now. One I Have Not Answered.
Spring Waning Seed Moon Agency. There’s been a lot written in psychology and history about agency. We have agency when we can affect the flow of events in our own lives or in the world around us. (No, I’m not going to get into the subtle no-free-will arguments floating around.) A lot of the historical […]
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