{"id":503,"date":"2008-04-20T15:21:15","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T21:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=503"},"modified":"2008-04-20T15:21:15","modified_gmt":"2008-04-20T21:21:15","slug":"matzo-located-in-coon-rapids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=503","title":{"rendered":"Matzo Located In Coon Rapids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>69!\u00a0 bar steep fall 29.84 3mph ENE dewpoint 49 Spring<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Full Moon of Growing<\/p>\n<p>Boy.\u00a0 With the temps in the high 60&#8217;s the full moon of growing has matured during the right weather.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Good news.\u00a0 There are Jews just across the city line into Coon Rapids.\u00a0 Both Cub and Rainbow have many shelves with matzo meal, borscht, chicken bullion, matzo soup mix and potato pancake mix.\u00a0 Bad news.\u00a0 Manischewitz has back ordered passover approved matzo.\u00a0 Bummer.\u00a0 So, we will have to anoint the regular matzo as ok for passover.\u00a0 It&#8217;s ok; I&#8217;m a minister, I can do that.\u00a0 Not really, but what choice do we have?<\/p>\n<p>The world as a whole is miraculous and in its parts, too.\u00a0 I put more seeds into small plugs of earth, readying them for life under the bright lights until the weather is congenial for their presence in the big show outside.\u00a0 Each seed I handled, most very tiny, a few bigger, say half the size of a small pencil eraser, had all that was necessary to produce a beet, a morning glory, a cucumber, basil, rosemary.\u00a0 All these mighty engines need is a bit of help.\u00a0 Water.\u00a0 Light.\u00a0 Some nutrients later on, but in the beginning they carry their own food source, stored away from a plant long ago gone to seed, perhaps compost now, but it lives on in these small\u00a0parcels.<\/p>\n<p>The imagery was impossible to not notice.\u00a0 I took a pick-up (Adsons) and deposited the seeds into the crevice in the center of the small prepared plug of earth.\u00a0 After I dropped in the seed, my role finished.\u00a0 The rest is up to the seed and the things that nudge it into action.\u00a0 Later, plants.\u00a0 Food captured and processed, food made from light thanks to another miracle, photosynthesis.\u00a0 Think of that:\u00a0 food from light.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what these living parcels can do.\u00a0 Something we couldn&#8217;t do, ever.\u00a0 No matter how learned and wise.\u00a0 If not for photosynthesis, we&#8217;d starve to death in the midst of abundant energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>69!\u00a0 bar steep fall 29.84 3mph ENE dewpoint 49 Spring \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Full Moon of Growing Boy.\u00a0 With the temps in the high 60&#8217;s the full moon of growing has matured during the right weather.\u00a0 Good news.\u00a0 There are Jews just across the city line into Coon Rapids.\u00a0 Both Cub and Rainbow have many shelves &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=503\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Matzo Located In Coon Rapids<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,87,9],"tags":[21,251,407],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-and-spirituality","category-garden","category-great-work","tag-faith","tag-gardening","tag-jews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}