Lughnasa Waning Honey Extraction Moon “Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.” – Napoleon Bonaparte Of course, we know where Bonaparte’s style got him. Elba. Even so he does cut against the grain of paralysis by analysis, the peculiar disease of intellectuals where worrying the […]
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Mid-Summer Waxing Honey Flow Moon Independence Day. Celebrating our ancestor’s victory over the British army and considering how their enlightenment ideals apply to our time. Happy 4th of July! For an unreconstructed radical like myself, these are trying times. I wonder where the sense of communitarian spirit has gone. Yes, we have a can do, […]
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Beltane Waning Last Frost Moon “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln The tea-party folks and all those ronpaulites must love this quote from Lincoln. I just did a quick search trying (unsuccessfully) to find its source. […]
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Beltane Waxing Last Frost Moon The Arab Spring. A nice metaphor. I remember the Prague Spring. I have faith in people’s movements when they come out of the genuine frustrations and pains of everyday living. Ideology bends movements, often turns them into pretzels, twisted things that reflect the head rather than the heart, the so-called […]
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Imbolc Waxing Bridgit Moon This Valentine boy would like to send a big Valentine to all the folks in Tunisia and Egypt, to all folks anywhere, including Iran and Pakistan, even to the Tea Party folks, who yearn to be free. The yearning for freedom and liberty, a chance to steer toward a future of […]
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Winter Waxing Moon of the Cold Month A decent snowfall here last night but not a lot. The sun shines bright on the old Front Range. Colder though. This shooting. It seems apparent to me that the general atmosphere of current political debate can give permission to some marginal folks to take action. Reference to […]
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Winter Waning Moon of the Winter Solstice Walker stands with national peers in support of artistic freedom. This is a big deal and I’m proud to be part of a community and an artistic/museum community that supports artistic freedom. 54 years ago I began carrying newspapers for the Alexandria Times-Tribune, a paper route that went […]
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Fall Waxing Harvest Moon The tea party. What a change that phrase has experienced from the days of 5 year old girls with their princess themed tea sets and imaginary tea. Or, maybe not. These folks seem to have a fantasy going, too, a party in which they serve a tea called small government that […]
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A Special Place in Hell
Lughnasa Full Honey Extraction Moon “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those, who in times of moral crisis, do nothing.” – Dante Alighieri Moral crisis. Means different things to different people. Right now I see three moral crises that loom large. The first, and most troubling to me, concerns the vast unplanned experiment […]
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