Spring Bee Hiving Moon Kate has a tendency to get into work outside and not stop. She just keeps going, head down, tasks to complete. I admire that but don’t find it in me when […]
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Spring Bee Hiving Moon Put in my seed order to seed savers yesterday. This is the first year in a few that I’ve not started […]
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Fall Waning Harvest Moon Prepping for a presentation on Spiritual Resources for Humanists. Reading books, articles, letting ideas slip past as I get ready to sleep, keeping my antennae out for what feeds me now. The book I mentioned before, All Things Shining, has convinced me of one thing. It’s important to know why we […]
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Lughnasa Waning Honey Extraction Moon More butting my head against a language that any 4 year old in ancient Rome could speak and a reasonably intelligent 5 year old could read. I guess there is a plateau affect here and I’m standing on one right now. I can see the path I’ve taken to get […]
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Lughnasa Waxing Artemis Moon Oh, boy. Just got myself into another situation. Promising things I’m not sure I know how to accomplish. I hope this goes with do one thing you fear every day, month, year–whatever time frame you can stand. Cannot reveal details right now, but this could be a lot of fun for […]
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Summer Waning Strawberry Moon After weeding Kate and I took off for lunch–at Benihanas, not nearly as good as our own, much closer, Osaka–and a visit to Lights on Broadway. A bit of dithering about where the order was, where the paperwork was, who was on third and who was on second I picked up […]
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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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25 86% 28% ompn SSE bar29.95 rises windchill25 Imbolc Waning Crescent of the Winter Moon The struggle I talked about yesterday is a symptom of a shift in attention in my inner life. When I pursued meditative and contemplative practices related to Christianity, the experience enriched and deepened me. When I moved away from Christianity, 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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Ghosts
Imbolc Valentine Moon Today, a bit tired due to early rising, moving books put a weight on my shoulders. […]
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