Still Alive.

Beltane                                                              Waxing Garlic Moon Oh, boy.  I’ve not gone a day without a post in a long time.  Yesterday went by so fast. Worked on Latin for a bit, but a brightening day pulled me outside.  I plucked tulip detritus out of a bed where some tomato plants needed to go.  These were full grown […]

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Northern Park II: The Morning After

Beltane                                                          Waxing Garlic Moon “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw An apt quote for another run at Northern Spark.  There was a lot of self-creation on display in Minneapolis last night, from the sperm and egg crew (seen here in the orange light of a sodium vapor […]

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Northern Spark

Beltane                                                                       Waxing Garlic Moon 1:03 AM with a sickle moon, stars and a warmish night fallen over the Twin Cities.  Just back from Minneapolis and the Northern Spark Festival. There were lots of people, mostly in their twenties and early thirties, but not all.  I was there, for one.  As the organizer said, folks from […]

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Banned Art

Winter                                                             Waning Moon of the Winter Solstice I have now seen “A Fire in My Belly.” What did I think of it?  Much of the movie disturbed me:  scenes of lucha masked wrestlers throwing each other to the mat, a grainy clip of bull fighting, occasional interpositions of an Aztec priest lifting the heart out […]

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Contemporaries and Art

Imbolc                                        Waxing Wild Moon Into the Walker today to pick up doggie meds from Mark O. who brought them back from Mexico last week.  He’s a wounded traveler, struck down by a bug and a bum knee. Mark went with us on the first round of our tour.  Grace Jiang-Goggins gave us a tour of […]

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Double Checking Enlightenment

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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