Lughnasa Waxing Back to School Moon A very busy three days with something in the evening each night plus events during the day, too. Glad to get a chance to get back to the bees and the garden. Some autumn blooming bulbs came in the mail today, so I’ll get a chance to plant them […]
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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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Summer Full Grandchildren Moon Over the last year, with seeming increased speed in the last three months, the nattering nabobs of negativism (thank you, Spiro), have problems with the internet. The Web Means the End of Forgetting in this week’s NYT magazine recounts the many issues that self-revelation and innuendo can raise in an environment […]
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66 bar steady 29.79 3mph NNW dew-point 63 Summer night, rainy day Full Thunder Moon We had rain and storm, tornado warning and tornado watch. A full thunder moon day. The rain poured down, drenching the lily blooms, forming small rivers on the wide leaves of the acorn squash. While I read the first chapter […]
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42 bar falls 30.10 3mph WNW dewpoint 22 Spring Last quarter Moon of Growing Into St. Paul today. Preached (sort 0f) at Groveland. I say sort of because the presentation consisted of me telling jokes about Unitarian-Universalists and the group discussing their meaning as it relates to UU identity. This comes from a technique dredged […]
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38 bar falls 30.06 5mph NNE dewpoint 9 Spring Waning Gibbous Moon of Winds a clip from the Groveland e-wire E-Wire, Vol. 13, March 27, 2008 Last Sunday’s Service Groveland UU: St. Paul It’s always a treat to hear our old friend, the Rev. Charles Ellis. Last Sunday, Charlie offered a wide-ranging, in-depth presentation on […]
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The Beloved Community
Samhain Waning Harvest Moon Spent lunch with Leslie. She’s progressing in her work at Groveland. We had a very interesting conversation about a UU ecclesiology, not an easy topic since the notion loses something in importing it from Christianity. UU’s insist on calling their congregations churches, but that is accurate only historically for almost all […]
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