Fall Waxing Harvest Moon An idea keeps nudging its way forward and I want to get just a bit of it on paper, or in print, or bytes. The Future of Liberal Thought. Is equivalent to the struggle over the last century and especially since WWII to define what art is. That is, a shaking […]
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Lughnasa Waxing Back to School Moon A very busy three days with something in the evening each night plus events during the day, too. Glad to get a chance to get back to the bees and the garden. Some autumn blooming bulbs came in the mail today, so I’ll get a chance to plant them […]
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Imbolc Waning Cold Moon OK. To finish up the thought that got strangled as Morpheus took over my body last night. Salvation through technology has infected our thinking, a direct consequence of the relentless application of reason to larger and larger spheres of knowledge. Astronomy, physics and chemistry, geology, later biology all have had their […]
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33 bar steep fall 30.11 6mph N windchill 33 Waxing Gibbous Moon of Winds Boy is my sense of time screwed up. Got up at 4:30AM for the bathroom. Went back to bed. No sleep. Waited. Still no sleep. So at 5AM I got up, went downstairs, opened by John Weber collection catalogue and […]
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30 bar steady 30.06 1mph WNW windchill 30 First Quarter Moon of Winds When I woke up, Kate was long gone. It was 9:30. I missed my nap yesterday and I picked the sleep time this AM. The rest of the morning, what there was left anyhow, I used looking over my notes for […]
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-2 46% 20% 0mph S bar 30.37 steep drop windchill-4 Winter Waxing Gibbous Winter Moon As predicted the day has continued cold, thought we’ve warmed a bit from the early readings. Still, when the high is below zero, you know you’re dealing with a bitter time. We have the most trouble with the whippets when the […]
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21 59% 23% 1mph E bar29.99 steep fall windchill20 Winter First Quarter of the Cold Moon A friend from California called me to ask, “What is the difference between religion and spirituality?” This is an often asked question. In part its puzzle represents what I believe is a category mistake. There’s an assumption implicit in […]
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22 82% 25% 0mph ENE bar 29.95 windchill 22 Yuletide Waning Gibbous Cold Moon My brother Mark sent me this one. He’s on his way to Malaysia this week to renew his Thai visa. From a BBC Online article: Malaysian row over word for ‘God’ (Religious freedom is guaranteed under Malaysian law) “A church […]
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I (heart) Religion
Imbolc Waning Bridget Moon Some people like NASCAR, others quilting, some the middle ages, some middle age. Tastes and attractions vary for often indiscernible reasons. Me, I like religions. Most of them anyhow. Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Shinto, Taoism, Celtic Faery Faith, ancient Greek, Roman and Egyptian, Voodoo, Native American, Mayan, Aztec, Hawai’ian, Tibetan […]
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