Imbolc Waxing Bridgit Moon Signed up for 8 nights at Blue Cloud Abbey, Feb. 28 to March 8. My goal is to push Missing at least to the 2/3rds mark for a rough draft, maybe more if I get on a roll. I’m considering getting up into time for the early morning prayers, 6:45 am, […]
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79 bar falls 29.84 1mph ENE dew-point 61 Summer, hot, moving toward muggy Waxing Crescent of the Thunder Moon The cracks in the red car’s head were tiny. I saw them. They ran, in one instance, down the threads that hold the spark plug in place. While threading in a spark plug or under pressure, […]
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77 bar steady 29.93 5mph N dew-point 49 Summer, hot and sunny Waning Crescent of the Flower Moon Wrote this AM. Appended chapter 3 of Superior Wolf to its page on this website. Next week I’ll take down chapter 1 and put chapter 4 and so it will go until I have written myself […]
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60 bar falls 30.16 0mph NW dew-point 36 Beltane, twilight Last Quarter of the Hare Moon This story grabbed me. See below it to see why. “MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – A woman who spent nearly 60 years of her life in an iron lung after being diagnosed with polio as a child died Wednesday […]
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67 bar falls 30.34 1mph WSW dew-point 29 Beltane, sunny Last Quarter Hare Moon The piles are no more. One more phase’s detritus has gone into the trash bin or file folder or magazine holders. It feels good to have them gone, a relief. Financial information up to date. Philosophy News, SF Bulletin, Parabola, […]
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66 bar falls 30.06 6mph NE dew-point 38 Beltane, cloudy Waning Gibbous Hare Moon The grocery store on Saturday morning of Memorial Day weekend, quiet. I suppose all those up norther’s have abandoned the first home for the second. Made for an easy trip through the check out lane. Though not purchasing much, I […]
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Superior Wolf is underway again. The other day I hit on the point that had me stuck, a character I’d carried over from another novel. He didn’t belong in this one, but it took me 25,000 words or so to figure that out. Now a new plotline, more salient and tight, has emerged with a […]
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59 bar steady 29.90 0mpn WSW dewpoint 44 Beltane Waxing Gibbous Hare Moon A mediocre night at sheepshead, but we had a lot of laughs anyhow. Bill Schmidt cleaned up the nickels tonight. While driving back and forth I finished I Am Charlotte Simons, a 2004 Tom Wolfe novel. It’s reviews are all over the […]
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