Imbolc Valentine Moon After … Continue reading
Winter First Moon of the New Year May have found a new method for working on the latin. Translate it … Continue reading
Winter First Moon of the New Year An Ovidian morning. Holding words, conjugations, meanings, clause types, prepositions and adverbs in the head while whirling them around … Continue reading
Lughnasa Waning Harvest Moon More fun with Ovid. The curtain has begun to roll back a bit more. Many of my friends have second and third languages, but until now I only had the one. A bit of French. A … Continue reading
Lughnasa Waxing Honey Extraction Moon Much of yesterday and today spent amongst the Latin text of Metamorphoses. I translated ten lines of the story of Pentheus. In my effort to peek behind the curtain of translation I have learned several … Continue reading
Mid-Summer Waning Garlic Moon “God has no religion.” – Mahatma Gandhi If there is one, Gandhi has it right. Another day of Latin. This stuff, at least right now, is hard. It requires holding several different ideas in the head … Continue reading
Spring Waxing Bee Hiving Moon Below freezing tonight, howling winds all day, gray clouds scudding across the sky. Ah, Minnesota in springtime. A full day translating Ovid. I’m now down to verse 201, only 49 verses to go. I’ll probably … Continue reading
Spring Waning Bloodroot Moon The Latin work has gone past difficult learning, though there is still that, too, into a different, almost ecstatic place. Reading the words of another language and making sense, poetry, from them still seems magical to … Continue reading
Winter Waning Moon of the Winter Solstice What happens in the act of translation? After years of reading translated texts and noticing the often wide discrepancies among various translations of the same underlying words, I have wondered how such … Continue reading
Samhain Waxing Moon of the Winter Solstice The moon light, bright in the southern sky, casts shadows, thin skeletons of trees and shrubs splayed out upon the snow. This Latin stuff is fun. Going back and forth among dictionaries, grammars, … Continue reading