Imbolc Valentine Moon This last week was a bust as far as Latin or the book. It was spent in the emotional […]
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Samhain Waxing Moon of the Winter Solstice The holidays. Important for personal reflection, even have the ability to transform a life as we lay our lives alongside the possibilities suggested by Thanksgiving, Chanukah, Christmas, the Winter Solstice, New Years. Birthdays, anniversaries, too, can reach into the deep part of your self, we can call it […]
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Summer Waxing Grandchildren Moon Sl-o-w-i-n-g dowwwnn. Ah. Life returns in the emptiness. Doing gives us fuel, puts us in life, covers our lives with experience, action, momentum. Without doing we would not live, not be different from the rock in the garden. But. Without emptiness, without ceasing from action, from planning, from expecting, from measuring […]
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62 bar rises 29.84 0mpn NEE dew-point 61 sunrise 6:29 sunset 29.84 Lughnasa Waning Crescent of the Corn Moon “Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.” – Arthur Miller Arthur Miller. Once married to Marilyn Monroe. A right regret? Who knows. His point seems apt. Until scientists convince […]
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41 bar steady 29.41 4mph dewpoint 39 Beltane Waning Crescent Moon of Growing Wet. Cold. Dreary. An inside day. I was gonna plant beets and carrots outside, but not today. Maybe Sunday. Lunch with Tom Crane. We discussed the meeting at his house where I serve as his assistant. The topic is mastery. The […]
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8:53PM 73. Night. Clouds. Surf back. Strong, cool breeze off ocean. Humid. Kauai is old. Old and moody. It goes from sunshine to dark clouds in a moment, from dry to cloudburst. It’s peaks sharp and jagged, there are notches between mountains. Valleys run away from the ocean in deep v’s ending in waterfalls. A […]
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7:12PM Night. Had the weird experience of seeing Oscar winners announced at 4:30PM. Tripped and fell in the ocean. Got wet. Of course. Mumbled. Then, ah, what would one expect when in the ocean. Have a burgeoning collection of coral, have found few shells here. This morning on the way to Hanalei I had just […]
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