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 Waning Green Corn Moon<\/p>\n
Even though summer seems to have arrived, or returned this week, I can already feel social rhythms beginning to change.\u00a0 Fall has begun to peek up over the calendar.\u00a0 Ads for school supplies have begun to appear.\u00a0 I remember getting a\u00a0 mimeographed sheet (remember mimeographs?) in elementary school of the things we would need:\u00a0 lined paper, #2 lead pencils, paste, a paint set.\u00a0 Those are the things that remain in my memory.<\/p>\n
They achieved totemic value for me.\u00a0 These simple items carried the promise of learning, of new areas to explore, a new year away from home and in the company of other kids, at least for most of the day during the week.\u00a0 Mom and I would go to Danner’s or Murphy’s 5 and 10 cent stores.\u00a0 To this day I love going into office supply stores.\u00a0 They bring back that anticipation and wonder.<\/p>\n
Many of our vegetables have matured and others are well on their way, the harvest season has begun as the celebration of Lughnasa marks.\u00a0 The angle of the sun has begun to change and the days have continued to grow shorter since the Summer Solstice.\u00a0 At the Autumn Equinox we will be halfway between the Summer Solstice and the Winter Solstice.<\/p>\n
Jon and Jen have started their new school years, back with the elementary school kids in Aurora, Colorado.\u00a0 There’s news in their family, too.\u00a0 Jon has partial shoulder replacement surgery this Wednesday, still fixing a skiing injury now three years old.<\/p>\n
Gabe has had 13 bleeds in the recent past, including a spontaneous bleed on his back and a swollen hand.\u00a0 In trying to get factor into him he has suffered many sticks.\u00a0 He has small veins.\u00a0 He will get an internal port on August 27th so he can\u00a0 receive factor infusions prophylactically instead of acutely.\u00a0 This should give him a normal childhood and relieve the anxiety for Jon and Jen.\u00a0 There is, though, one potential problem.\u00a0 It is possible the body will develop antibodies against the factor.\u00a0 That would make things tougher.\u00a0 A balancing act.<\/p>\n
Kate’s going out there on Wednesday and will stay through Saturday.\u00a0 We go see a neuro-surgeon tomorrow morning, still trying to track down more effective treatments.\u00a0 She’s done very well with this degenerative disc disease, but it has not been easy.\u00a0 She’s tough.<\/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 Waning Green Corn Moon Even though summer seems to have arrived, or returned this week, I can already feel social rhythms beginning to change.\u00a0 Fall has begun to peek up over the calendar.\u00a0 Ads for school supplies have begun to appear.\u00a0 I remember getting a\u00a0 mimeographed sheet (remember mimeographs?) in elementary school of the … Continue reading Fall<\/span>