Lughnasa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Honey Extraction Moon<\/p>\n
And here I thought things were going well.\u00a0 My translation this morning was far, far off the mark.\u00a0 It was, Greg said, a combination of things.\u00a0 I don’t know the story.\u00a0 The poetry makes difficult constructions even more difficult to suss out and there were points of grammar here I hadn’t studied.\u00a0 Still.\u00a0 I felt like I had been wading at least in the muck, a marsh maybe, but this morning I dropped into a deep Latin hole.<\/p>\n
Sigh.\u00a0 Even though I know the only solution is to swim back to the surface and try to find the muck, at least, it was disheartening.\u00a0 No wonder I couldn’t find any entries for the commentary.<\/p>\n
Of course, I didn’t start down this ancient trail because I thought the journey would be easy.\u00a0 And, I was right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lughnasa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Honey Extraction Moon And here I thought things were going well.\u00a0 My translation this morning was far, far off the mark.\u00a0 It was, Greg said, a combination of things.\u00a0 I don’t know the story.\u00a0 The poetry makes difficult constructions even more difficult to suss out and there were points of grammar here I … Continue reading In a Deep Hole<\/span>