Ghosts

Imbolc                                                                          Valentine Moon Today, a bit tired due to early rising, moving books put a weight on my shoulders. […]

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Just Plain Fun

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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Growing

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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Breaching the Walled Garden of the Self

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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Spiritual Resources for the Humanist

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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Lapsed Unitarian

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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Here Comes The Sun

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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Up At 5AM and Hard At It

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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A Taoist Druid with a Spading Fork in Hand

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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Religion Is the Least Interesting and Most Common Expression of Spirituality

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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